Superb job of director Robert Iscove and his crew portraying this film, along with a notable lineup of actors and actress'. Acting and the plot was impressive, giving the audience a sense of realism without being too overly dramatic or Hollywoodish. Compared to other movies utilizing the newsroom to introduce the plot, this by far surpasses most. I can see how this movie when first aired how people mistook it for being genuine. In a sense I would consider this a modern 90's era mindset reaction of people and a paranoid nation in response to a first encounter to Earth. A good comparison for this film would be when H.G. Well's broadcasted his War of the World over live radio, also depicted a true sense of realism, with the exception of this film having the perspective view from within the TV newsroom. Robert portrayed this film with such realism that easily gave the sense of an actual TV broadcast and interviews of world crisis' and headline news of before. The world definitely needs more films with this realm of realism rather than some recent films which try to portray the same sense utilizing the first person perspective with a handy cam, nauseating acting by a hokey cast, and typical overly used plot with the predictable idiotic actions of the characters, a feeble attempt to entice the audience. A good film shouldn't need to have those.
Review of Without Warning
