War Of The Worlds: The Attack (2023)

It's a bit like Attack The Block innit? Another alien encounter in the UK.

This time it's their take on the War Of The Worlds one, where a superior race comes to colonize our home and take us for all we have and haventh. A straight-up redo of the War Of The Worlds classic on UK soil.

It really is a redo. It's exactly the same, from start to finish.

You get a new milieu, and a new crew to purge the world from the oncoming onslaught and alien threat - or at least to escape it.

The dark, the red, the everything from the original is there, albeit this time with subpar special effects and a whole lot of repetition.

They had the crazy priest too. Don't recall if he was a priest in the original movie but he definitely was similar, the crazy character...

I'm a bit surprised they were allowed to make this. Thought the name would be trademarked. I thought certain concepts couldn't be repeated so easily without breaching some form of copyright law. Can't imagine this was sanctioned by the same studio that made the original movie.

The special effects were nice occasionally, with the explosions and attacks, and the crew was charming, but other than that... you're better off seeing the original.

The premise may be worth repeating, to remind us what a wonderful world we really live in, and how we really ought take better care of it, yet there doesn't seem to be much merit to making this exactly the same.

Another country, but exactly the same.

They could've switched this up plenty if they wanted to.

 rated 2.5/5: almost not bad