H.G. Wells has created a narrative opportunity for the discourse of the dangerous possibilities of the current unknown. The anthropological and existential response that emerges from such a threat is addressed but hardly explored. There is a tendency towards the description of the physical experience rather than elaborating on the insightful reactions that one would have from such a circumstance. Essentially there is a favour of a plot that may result in shock and excitement at the time of its publishing but feels limiting within our current context. When the film does tease at its larger questions and the familiarity of the human response to such threats, there was a hold of me, but it was a feeling that felt short and sparse.