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There are no experts in Steven Spielberg's "War of the Worlds"--no brilliant scientists from Caltech or M.I.T. talking of roentgens or alien blood types. And no military-intelligence officers, either, or any of the other authorities wearing thick glasses who showed up in science-fiction movies a half century ago (including George Pal's version of "War of the Worlds," from 1953) and who became so much a part of the mythology of disaster. The White House is not heard from, and worried diplomats do not meet at the United Nations to address the crisis. In this stark, horror-movie take on H. G. Wells's 1898 classic, the aliens land in noisy flashes of lightning, imperceptible ...