War of the Worlds 2005 [TRUSTED DOWNLOAD]
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Produced by Kathleen Kennedy
Colin Wilson
Damian Collier (executive)
Paula Wagner (executive)
Written by Josh Friedman
David Koepp
H. G. Wells (novel)
Narrated by Morgan Freeman
Starring Tom Cruise
Dakota Fanning
Justin Chatwin
Miranda Otto
Music by John Williams
Cinematography Janusz Kaminski
Editing by Michael Kahn
Studio Amblin Entertainment
Cruise/Wagner Productions
Distributed by USA DVD
DreamWorks
Most media worldwide
Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) United States:
June 29, 2005 (2005-06-29)
United Kingdom:
July 1, 2005 (2005-07-01)
Running time 117 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget US$132 million[1]
Gross revenue US$591,745,540[1]
Plot
Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) is a dock worker residing in Bayonne, New Jersey. One day, his ex-wife, Mary Ann (Miranda Otto), drops off their children, Rachel (Dakota Fanning) and Robbie (Justin Chatwin), at his house as she is going to Boston to meet with her parents. While Ray sleeps, Robbie takes Ray's car out of the house without his permission. When Ray wakes up, he goes out to search for his son, and notices a strange wall cloud, which starts to send out electromagnetic pulses in the form of lighting in the nearby area, which disables all working electronic devices in the area, including cars. Ray then leaves to investigate, along the way telling Manny, the local mechanic, to replace the solenoid on a dead car. Ray and other numerous people are then attracted to a small hole in the ground caused by the lightning strikes. The ground then starts to rip open and a massive machine standing on three long legs appears. After emerging, the Tripod opens fire with its Heat-Ray and begins vaporizing bystanders and destroying everything in its path. Ray manages to escape and return to his house. Knowing it is no longer safe, Ray packs up his kids and leaves. He then manages to steal the vehicle Manny repaired, and along with Robbie and Rachel leave as the tripod destroys the town around them.
Ray drives to Mary Ann and her new husband's house to take refuge that night. The next morning he discovers that the electromagnetic lightning storms have caused a Boeing 747 to crash into the houses. Ray meets a small news team searching the wreckage, who show him footage of Tripods destroying other cities, and also that aliens apparently "rode" down the lightning into the ground where the Tripods were located. After hearing the siren of an approaching Tripod, the news crew leaves, and Ray, along with his children, flee to join with Mary in Boston. While driving along NY 385, they are forced to leave their car after a mob attacks them in order to take the vehicle, and survive a Tripod attack while navigating the Hudson River on a ferry.
The family then encounters the U.S. Military preparing to mount an attack on the Tripods. Robbie, obsessed with joining the fight against the hostile aliens, leaves with the army after Ray goes stopping a couple who was carrying Rachel away. While escaping from the tripods, Ray and Rachel are offered shelter and protection by a stranger, Harlan Ogilvy (Tim Robbins), who vows revenge on the aliens after his family was killed by Tripods. While hiding in Harlan's basement, they witness the Tripods spreading a strange red weed-like substance over the ground, and avoid detection by both a metallic snake-like probe and four aliens who arrive to explore the basement. The following morning, Harlan suffers a mental breakdown after witnessing a Tripod harvesting blood and tissue from a human to fertilize the weed. Concerned that Harlan's yelling and ranting will attract the Tripods, Ray kills Harlan to silence him. Ray and Rachel's hideout is exposed however when another probe catches them while they sleep. Ray cripples the probe using an axe, but Rachel is so scared she flees the house, eventually being caught by a Tripod.
While pursuing the Tripod, Ray finds several hand grenades in a destroyed Humvee and detonates one of them to attract the Tripod's attention. After being captured and put into a basket with Rachel and several other prisoners, the aliens try to pull Ray inside the Tripod, but the other prisoners manage to pull him out. The grenades left by Ray inside the cabin then detonate, causing the Tripod to collapse and freeing the captives. Soon afterward, Ray and Rachel arrive in Boston, where they notice the red weeds are starting to dry up and die. They witness a Tripod acting strangely and Ray notices numerous birds are landing on it, indicating the Tripod's force fields are no longer functioning. Alerting nearby soldiers, they attack and destroy the Tripod, which crashes into a building. Approaching the downed Tripod, a hatch opens, revealing an alien 'pilot' who dies. Ray and Rachel reach Mary Ann's parent's house and find her and, to their surprise, Robbie. As the camera zooms back to overview the wrecked city, the narrator (Morgan Freeman) reveals that the aliens were dying because they were suffering from terrestrial diseases, which they contracted from consuming Earth's air and resources and for which they had no immunity.
