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''War of the Worlds'' is a 2005 American science fiction disaster film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Josh Friedman and David Koepp, loosely based on the novel of the same title by H. G. Wells. It stars Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Justin Chatwin, Miranda Otto and Tim Robbins, with narration by Morgan Freeman. In the film, an American dock worker is forced to look after his children, to whom he lives separately, and struggles to protect them and reunite them with their mother when extraterrestrials invade the Earth and massacre cities with towering war machines. The film was shot in 73 days, using five different sound stages as well as locations in California, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Virginia. The film was surrounded by a secrecy campaign so few details would be leaked before its release. Tie-in promotions were made with several companies, including Hitachi. The film was released in the United States on June 29 and in United Kingdom on July 1. ''War of the Worlds'' was a box office success, and became 2005's fourth most successful film both domestically, with $234 million in North America, and $591 million overall. At the time of ''War of the Worlds'' release, it was the highest grossing film starring Tom Cruise. ==Plot== The narrator (Morgan Freeman) explains how humans were unaware that intelligent extraterrestrials were making plans to occupy Earth. Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) is a divorced crane operator longshoreman who works at a dock in Bayonne, NJ. Ray is estranged from his children. His former wife, Mary Ann (Miranda Otto), later drops off the children, 10-year-old daughter Rachel (Dakota Fanning) and teenage son Robbie (Justin Chatwin), at Ray's house in Bayonne on her way to visit her parents in Boston. Unexplained changes in the weather occur, emitting lightning that strikes multiple times in the middle of an intersection and disrupting all electrical technology in the area. Ray finds where multiple lightning strikes have hit the ground, from which a massive three-legged machine, called a Tripod, emerges and uses alien weaponry to incinerate most of the witnesses. Ray collects his children and drives to Mary Ann's home in suburban New Jersey to take refuge. The next morning Ray discovers a Boeing 747 has crashed in the street outside the house. He finds a small news team who reveal that the aliens have also attacked major world cities including New York City, Washington, D.C., and London, and that the aliens entered the machines in capsules via the lightning. Ray decides to take the kids to Boston to be with their mother. Robbie, trying to join the fight against the aliens, tries to leave with the U.S. military, and the three are forced to leave their car after a mob takes it by force. They later survive a Tripod attack which causes a Hudson River ferry to sink. During a desperate battle between the U.S. Marines and the aliens, Ray is forced to choose between being separated from Rachel and preventing Robbie from joining the fight; Ray lets him go with the Marines and disappears. The Tripods are shown to be protected by an energy shield that makes them invulnerable and the Marines are overwhelmed. While escaping, Ray and Rachel are offered shelter by Harlan Ogilvy (Tim Robbins), who presumes that the aliens had buried their technology on Earth millions of years ago and that he and Ray can deduce their weaknesses by observing them, as their refuge is right in the middle of an alien camp. The three remain undetected for two days, even as a probe and a group of the aliens themselves explore the basement. The next morning, Ogilvy goes crazy while witnessing a Tripod harvesting human blood and tissue to fertilize an alien plant called red weed. Concerned that the aliens may hear Ogilvy's madness, Ray kills him to silence him. The basement hideout is exposed when a second probe catches them sleeping. Ray stops the probe with an axe, but Rachel runs outside, where the landscape has been consumed by red weeds, and she is caught by the guarding Tripod. Ray allows himself to be abducted, being placed in the same basket with Rachel and other prisoners. As the aliens select him for harvesting, Ray takes a belt of grenades into the machine having pulled out the pins. The other prisoners are able to prevent his body being taken inside, and the grenades explode and release the cages. Ray and Rachel arrive in a devastated Boston, where the red weed is dying and the Tripods are collapsing. Ray notices birds landing on a nearby Tripod, indicating that its shields are down. Ray alerts the soldiers escorting his refugee group and they shoot it down. Ray and Rachel reach Mary Ann's parents' house, where they are reunited with Mary Ann and, to their surprise, Robbie. The closing narration reveals that the aliens were immune to man's machines, but were not immune to the microbes present on Earth. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「War of the Worlds (2005 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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