Well I didn't like all that family crap they added but it's probably more compelling then just a man alone trying to find his wife. The movie was okay overall though, had some great scenes but some were pretty lame (pulling the guy out inside the alien? bleh). The book was published in the last 1800's so I give them props for managing to modernize the thing more than a century later, and doing it quite true to the story.
The ending is kind of anticlimactic in the movie. It had a better fit in the novel, where a hopeless sense was around for quite a while and the main character giving himself up to the aliens only to find they are actually dieing is good stuff. It was just lame and kind of confusing in the movie.
"i just didnt understand the ending."
Basically, the aliens from Mars (was it Mars in the movie?) are killed from the earth's bacteria - all that shit we have grown to immune to over time.







