This nightmarish film by Spielberg captivated many viewers. However, the director does not like the ending!

Steven Spielberg may be one of the undisputed masters of modern American cinema, but he has the clarity to know when he’s not getting the desired result on screen. This is evidenced by his regret at the end of one of his films: War of the Worlds, which was worn by Tom Cruise.

In book James Cameron’s science fiction storySteven Spielberg returned to the end of his War of the Worlds and confided in his Avatar director:

This movie doesn’t have a good ending. I never figured out how to end this damn thing!

War of the Worlds ends with a Deus ex machina: Aliens have landed on Earth and are about to defeat human armies, only to discover that their immune systems cannot handle the microbes that are proliferating on our planet. They begin to go in circles and collapse on themselves.

And obviously, Spielberg is not happy with this ending. Maybe because their defeat is generally off-screen?

Anyway, this ending is consistent with HG Wells’ novel of the same name, from which Spielberg’s film was inspired.

A previous version, The War of the Worlds, had already been made in 1953, directed by Byron Haskin, in which the tripods were replaced by spaceships. Two actors, Jean Barry and Anne Robinson, also appear in Spielberg’s version as the grandparents we see at the end of the film.

The end of the film is announced by the line at the 12th minute of the film. The daughter of Tom Cruise’s character, played by Dakota Fanning, notices that she has a splinter in her hand. His father offers to remove it to prevent infection and he calmly replies: “My body will give up when the time comes”Which suggests that Earth, through microbes, will respond to the alien invasion and reject them when the time comes.

If he considers his failed War of the Worlds the end, find out who Spielberg’s favorite is…Steven Spielberg!

In 2005, with the release of The War of the Worlds, Spielberg and his cinematographer Janusz Kaminski chose a very stark and almost colorless image, recalling reports of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and conveying through the painting the fears of a beleaguered nation.