War of the Worlds: Goliath (2012)

Directed by

Joe Pearson

Genre

action film, science fiction film, dieselpunk

Country

Malaysia

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 26 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Fifteen years after the Martian invasion of H.G. Wells' novel, an alternate 1914 Europe teeters on the brink of World War I. A human pilot commands a giant tripod war machine called the Goliath when the Martians launch a second, more brutal attack on Earth.

fast-pacedaction-heavygrimretro-futuristicchaoticvisually messybombasticdated

What happens

War of the Worlds: Goliath is a 2012 Malaysian animated alternate history science fiction war film directed by Joe Pearson from a screenplay he co-write with David Abramowitz, and serving as a loose sequel to H. G. Wells' 1898 novel The War of the Worlds. Produced by Tripod Group, Studio Climb and Sun Min Image Pictures, the stars the voices of Peter Wingfield, Adrian Paul, Tony Eusoff, Elizabeth Gracen, Jim Byrnes, Rob Middleton, Mark Sheppard, Matt Letscher, Adam Baldwin and other voice actors. Its title refers to the human tripod the main characters use in the film. Set in an alternate 1914, fifteen years after the events of the 1898 novel during the potential onset of the Great War as Europe's fragile alliance begins to shatter. The story follows Eric Wells commands the "Goliath," a 65-foot Achilles-class human tripod as the Martians launches a second invasion of Earth with upgraded, bacteria-resistant tripods. The film was released in 15 November 2012 in Malaysia and 7 March 2014 in the United States and received negative reviews from critics for poor animation quality, clichéd writing, and lack of emotional depth, with the Los Angeles Times calling it "violent, messily drawn and lifelessly dragging" and The New York Times calling it "remarkably uninvolving". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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