“War Of The Worlds: Extinction” (*1/2 out of four) was a threadbare continuation of this series about a rogue general (a grizzled William Baldwin) who leads his troops to attack Earth while a team of archaeologists have to track him down to prevent the end of the world as we know it. Opens with some impressive visual effects but all is pretty much downhill there after into standard sci/fi story cliches. What- if anything- does this have to do with Orson Welles’ story original? Time for this series to face “extinction” of its own.