[image|http://sfgate.com/templates/types/entertainment/graphics/littleman/5.0.gif||||] [link|http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/06/29/DDGDMDFVCU18.DTL&hw=Mick+LaSalle+War+of+the+Worlds&sn=005&sc=470| SFGate]
It's hard to imagine a better movie called "War of the Worlds" than this latest from Steven Spielberg. It is, simply, the alienation-invasion movie to beat all alien-invasion movies: meticulously detailed and expertly paced and photographed, with sights so spectacular and terrible that viewers will have to consciously remind themselves to close their mouths when their jaws drop open.