Amazon's War of the Worlds Remake Starring Ice Cube Staring at a Computer Screen Gets Rare 0% Rotten Tomatoes Critics Score

Amazon’s precocious released War of the Worlds remake has a uncommon 0% Rotten Tomatoes critics people — and the assemblage people isn’t acold behind.

HG Wells’s The War of the Worlds, archetypal published successful 1898, has been remade a fig of times implicit the years, possibly astir successfully with 2005’s Tom Cruise led sci-fi epic. It tells the communicative of slug-like Martians invading Earth successful intimidating tripods — and however humanity responds.

This caller remake, starring Ice Cube and Eva Longoria and helmed by euphony video and commercialized manager Rich Lee, relays the enactment done Zoom cameras, telephone streams, and Google Maps read-outs. Ice Cube spends beauteous overmuch the full movie staring astatine a machine screen.

Here’s the authoritative blurb:

A gargantuan penetration is coming with this caller instrumentality connected the legendary caller of the aforesaid name. Renowned histrion Eva Longoria is joined by iconic rapper and histrion Ice Cube, on with Michael O’Neill and Iman Benson, for a thrilling out-of-this-world escapade that is filled with present-day themes of technology, surveillance, and privacy.

Ice Cube stars successful 1 of the worst-reviewed movies of 2025. Image credit: WAR OF THE WORLDS 2025 / YouTube.

It has been wide panned by critics and audiences alike. The Telegraph’s scathing 1/5 reappraisal carried the headline: “Amazon’s War of the Worlds update should ne'er person been released… The lone happening stunning astir this HG Wells retelling is the information that it has seen daylight.”

“It is silly, shoddy and features acold excessively overmuch of rapper-turned-leading antheral Ice Cube staring astatine a machine surface portion looking arsenic if he’s moving done a reasonably urgent digestive ailment,” the Telegraph’s reappraisal continued. “Like a heat-ray successful reverse, it leeches each the amusive retired of what should beryllium an epic communicative of alien invasion.”

It’s worthy bearing successful caput the full movie was filmed during Covid, which helps explicate wherefore it looks the mode it does. But of people that doesn’t explain… everything else. Apparently the movie sat connected Universal's support for 4 years, but has someway recovered its mode onto Prime Video, wherever it is besides getting a kicking.

Amazon idiosyncratic reviews magnitude to a paltry 1.8 retired of 5 wide rating. “You shouldn't ticker this movie adjacent if you're threatened with a limb being removed with a spoon,” reads the apical comment.

Perhaps Tom Cruise's War of the Worlds is worthy watching instead, then.

Image credit: WAR OF THE WORLDS 2025 / YouTube.

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