Planet Earth is being invaded. And it isn't the 19th century. Steven Spielberg has done it again -- this time bringing the H.G. Wells blockbuster, The War of the Worlds, to life in a new blockbuster film. Far from being a creaky Victorian curiosity, this is a tale that is ever-new, ever-now. Spielberg's new film has updated the setting to 2005 in the United States, but the original horrifying situation of an onslaught of slimy aliens invading the earth and the details of how the human race fights back are straight out of H.G. Wells' amazing imagination. The story is riveting, but takes the movie one step further -- revealing Wells' progressive ideas about society and mankind.

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