US EditionIce Cube’s War of the Worlds Is Too Crazy for This Planet
SWEDEN, AUG 6 – The film features an alien invasion intertwined with government surveillance and earned a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, indicating widespread critical disapproval.
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Review: Ice Cube's 'War of the Worlds' Is an Affront to H.G. Wells
War of the Worlds (2025), the latest and perhaps most baffling adaptation of H.G. Wells’ enduring sci-fi novel, is neither a revival nor an evolution. It’s a clinical, creatively bankrupt exercise in screen-life storytelling that somehow manages to insult not just its source material, but the intelligence of its audience as well. To call it a “mockery” would imply the film has enough self-awareness to be in on the joke. It doesn’t. The post Revi…
Michael Ebenger Wed., August 6, 2025 - 3:19 PM Tags War of the Worlds Film New Flop Review Bad Hollywood Rotten Tomatoes Amazon Prime Channel (formerly: article type) News Teaser Text Ice Cube's new film isn't doing well at all Page sections Some films are so good that they amaze you while watching them. But the opposite is also true: There are some films that are so bad that they become milestones. This is also the case with Ice Cube's new film…
War of the Worlds (Amazon Prime)
This is one of the worst fucking excuses for a film I have ever seen. What a shameless insult to the good name of H.G. Wells. What a deplorable piece of rubbish. What a... ah, wait a minute. I forgot to summarise the plot of the film first, before I saw it along the ankles. Ok, here we go: Homeland colonel Will Radford (played by Ice Cube for some reason) lives chronically online through a surveillance programme, monitoring everything from mobil…
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