US EditionThis Sci-Fi Remake Is Prime Video's Most Popular Movie Now — Is It Worth Watching?
AMAZON PRIME VIDEO (STREAMING PLATFORM), AUG 5 – The 2025 sci-fi thriller starring Ice Cube uses a screenlife format and earned a rare 0% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes with only 12 reviews, despite high streaming numbers.
- On July 30, 2025, Prime Video released War of the Worlds starring Ice Cube, which debuted at 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.
- As a 'screenlife' project, the film was produced in 2020 during the pandemic, with producer Patrick Aiello describing it earlier this year as a visceral, first-person experience.
- Audience reviews reveal a 12% Rotten Tomatoes audience score and an 11% rating on the Popcornmeter from over 500 user ratings.
- Despite scathing reviews, Prime Video's most-watched title globally on FlixPatrol remains War of the Worlds, which received a 0% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes.
- On social media, users questioned why Amazon released War of the Worlds instead of shelving it, despite fans sharing clips that boost curiosity.
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Ice Cube’s War of the Worlds earns its 0% on Rotten Tomatoes
There’s no mistaking War of the Worlds (2025), dumped at the end of July on to Amazon Prime Video, for Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise’s acclaimed 2005 War of the Worlds. Or Byron Haskin's Academy Award-nominated 1953 War of the Worlds. Or the BBC’s 2019 TV version of War of the Worlds, which expanded the story to 24 episodes. Or even The Asylum’s 2005 straight-to-DVD War of the Worlds, which looks like it was produced for several thousand dolla…
Is "War of the Worlds" Worth Watching on Prime Video?
If you have a Fire Stick or regularly pop into Prime Video you’ll have spotted that there’s a decent looking film on; War of the Worlds. The movie has been reimagined for 2025. Well, really it’s been reimagined for 2020 and it’s awful. What is War of the Worlds? War of the Worlds is one of the most famous pieces of entertainment ever made. A radio adaption rose to fame in 1938 for all the wrong reasons. Based on the 1898 H.G. Wells novel of the …
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