This is a great alien invasion film, in that it depicts the horror and despair of such an invasion. These aliens are highly technologically advanced and they just completely wipe out human's best weapons. Once the ball got rolling (which is, about after around twenty mins when the first "Tripod" arises), it never stops. The movie sucks you in all the way to the finish, I couldn't tear my eyes away. You wanted to see more, see how things are going to develop and especially how it's going to end considering how disadvantaged our protagonists are. The suspense and tense moments in the main character's desperate attempt to run away was done very well. As mentioned earlier, there are some shocking events that happen. While these may not be too different to other attempts, the devastation and images that they leave really burns the image into your eyes. Those scenes were quite memorable, such as the blood red devastation shown late into the movie. There were some annoying characters, Robbie primarily being the one. The main character, Ray, plays the divorced father who doesn't understand his kids (and vice versa, with an added bit of hate). Even though Ray was clearly doing the logical thing, Robbie would go against him. I was surprised when he ended up surviving as he did, and managing to arrive all the way to Boston without many injuries to boot. That was disappointing. The weakest part of the film has to be the ending, after the great build up throughout the film, we got such a short and abrupt ending, with a pitiful excuse for an explanation on why the aliens suddenly fail, and you feel somewhat cheated. The aliens' motives were never explained too (other than that they wanted human blood?). A great film and I kinda wished it was longer so the ending could be fleshed out more.