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War of the Worlds (2005)

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
Rating: 7.0
War of the Worlds poster

Overview

Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.


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Bias Dimensions

Political: Center
Diversity: Low

Overview

Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.


Starring Cast


Where to watch

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Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Leans Traditional

Primary

The film maintains a neutral stance by focusing on the apolitical themes of individual and familial survival against an existential alien threat, rather than explicitly promoting specific political ideologies or solutions.

The film features a primarily traditional cast, with no explicit race or gender swaps of established roles. The narrative focuses on a white male protagonist and his family, presenting traditional identities in a neutral to positive light without any explicit critique or central DEI themes.

Secondary

War of the Worlds does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters, relationships, or themes. The narrative is solely focused on a heterosexual family's struggle for survival during an alien invasion, rendering the portrayal of LGBTQ+ elements as N/A.

War of the Worlds does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes within its narrative. The film focuses on a family's struggle for survival during an alien invasion, with no elements related to transgender identity or experiences.

The film primarily focuses on a family's survival against an alien invasion. Female characters, including Mary Ann and Rachel Ferrier, are depicted in roles of vulnerability and seeking safety, and do not engage in direct physical combat against any opponents.

The film introduces new characters and adapts existing roles from H.G. Wells' novel without altering their established gender. No character canonically male or female in the source material is portrayed as a different gender in the movie.

The 2005 film adapts H.G. Wells's novel, introducing new characters like Ray Ferrier and his family, who are portrayed by white actors. The original novel's characters were implicitly white, and no character explicitly established as one race in the source material was portrayed as a different race in this adaptation.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

7.0

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
6.6
The Movie Database logo
6.5

Critic Ratings

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7.6
Metacritic logo
7.3

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