CHRIS IN LIMBO ZIP

With a tap of fingers and a period of unconsciousness, he receives the gift to transmogrify light into a world-bending tool. In the moments after the invasion, but before the family gets yanked apart, the dad has a close encounter with an alien soldier. An outdoor festival is abandoned, as if its partygoers had been raptured.īecause this is a video game, our guy gets to hike into the night with a superhuman power. Survivors hide in sewer drains or gather at impromptu evac centers.

CHRIS IN LIMBO ZIP

Cars zip erratically along a highway, fleeing in a direction where things are probably just as bad - maybe worse. Of all War of the Worlds adaptations, Somerville has most in common with Steven Spielberg’s Tom Cruise vehicle, released a few years after the 9/11 attacks. He’s like a particularly clever and/or lucky ant skittering to stay alive during a family picnic. The guy has no knack for violence, and no talent for survival beyond a slightly elevated ability to problem-solve on the fly. This time, rather than follow the president or the world’s sexiest scientist, we get a guy who just wants to see his wife and kid again.

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