War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave (2008)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

I was shocked at the lack of acting ability. Seriously, it's as if the director just said to heck with it all and crap out this fantastic hot steaming turd ball. So many times I found myself asking "What? Seriously?". I believe they just gave up on common sense and science throughout the movies. Yeah, everything you read about this movie as far as the reviews go on IMDb were all totally correct even the ridiculous claims are true. My biggest annoyance was the soundtrack. It was repetitive and literally sounded like you were stuck on the loading screen of a zombie game. Most of the time the music was inappropriately timed and by that I mean that it literally played the same gloomy death music the entire film. Some of the actors could stand to learn basic acting knowledge. I felt like they must have been running low on film or their standards were so low that everything seemed like it was on a 1 take, no repeats style filming. You can predict the entire movie plot as long as you aren't a 4 year old or drunk and high enough that you can't process simple plot lines. The ending was an absolute joke only because it made sense in a way. The survivors accomplished absolutely nothing other than to become reunited and then back to a "Pinky and The Brain" style motto. If you are being attacked by a martian civilization capable of interstellar space travel faster than light, why would you think taking out 1 Mother ship would solve anything. In fact this would most likely just get the real attack force to show up.In summary/TL;DR:This movie needed to be an hour shorter and they desperately needed to not use repeated combat scenes in CGI as a substitute for actual combat. The battle scenes really made you feel like you were watching an old time style cartoon full of repeated scene backgrounds and highly pitched fake screams looped and used several times again and again. Thanks to this movie I've lost not only precious irreplaceable time but I've lost all respect for any of the actors in this movie. Especially the main protagonist.

I jut tried to watch the movie for 15 minutes... It looked like a 50's matinée movie with horrendous actors and terrible Special and Sound FX. Don't even try to take a peek of the movie... It's awful! Boring story, boring speech lines, The music score repeating. I really don't understand why people make these movies. Would they think that it can be a blockbuster? Anyone explain this to me. And I totally agree with robert-greenwood-1 from United Kingdom. He said: "This movie has a really effective anti piracy idea built in." It's so bad that no one would copy and sell it!Please somebody stop me to keep writing this sort of review. Oh! one more thing. As we say in Mexico: Mr H. G. Wells would die again if he could watch War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave.

Once you've accepted that it's one of the worst films you've ever seen, it's interesting to dissect exactly what is so bad about it. I could imagine this being shown in film school as an example of: Terrible acting across the board. Yes, even C. Thomas Howell who looks like death warmed over. But especially the girl with the accent that kept changing between southern, ? European, ? something else. Some of the worst editing I've ever seen: Lots of dead spots. Writing: Drawn-out, unoriginal plot with random unexplained turns, dead ends. At one point, a scene was almost identical to an earlier scene and for a couple minutes I wondered whether there was a glitch in the programming. (I saw it on SyFy with commercials). Special effects ranging from "meh" to bizarre and ridiculously laughable. Watching it all the way through makes you appreciate all the things that go into a good film and make it look effortless when actually there is a lot of good writing, directing, acting, editing, and cinematography that go into that "effortless" look. So I gave it a 2 instead of a 1 only because it may be of use to film students learning how NOT to make a film.

First off, let me say that I absolutely love Steven Spielberg's version of War of the Worlds. I'm not going to go into detail about that, but his variation was incredible, and is one of my favorite movies. It's as if he knew exactly what H.G Wells was thinking when he wrote the book all those years ago, and it was very well done for a concept written in the late 1800sThen the Asylum gives it a shot.My God, where have we gone wrong? The only reason i saw the Asylum's version is because I mistook it for Spielberg's edition at Blockbuster when I rented it. And it was just terrible. The effects were terrible, the acting was beyond horrible, and a lot of scenes just didn't make any logical sense whatsoever. I actually ended up returning the DVD right after viewing it, hoping that I'd never have to hear about it again.Then the sequel came around.Oh my God... I never knew it was humanly possible to screw up a story this bad. just... wow. I'm stunned. This has got to be the worst movie I have ever seen in my entire life. This is beyond Jaws 4 territory of bad! It's got all of the same problems as the first movie, and completely amplifies them many times over. If you see this DVD anywhere, avoid it like it was a disease, because, in a way, it IS a disease. You're FAR better off getting Spielberg's version of War of the Worlds. And whatever you do, DON'T get his version and the Asylum's confused. The Asylum's has an alien blowing up the Capitol Building. That's how to tell. But this? This is just... ugh. If you see a "2" next to the War of the Worlds title, avoid it! Stay away from this awful "movie" at all costs!