Amazon’s new remake of War of the Worlds, starring Ice Cube, debuted at 0% on Rotten Tomatoes. Someone wrote: “The film’s tagline – ‘It’s worse than you think’ – sums up the entire movie.”
The audience score on Rotten Tomatoes is only slighter better at 12%.
Ice Cube stars as Will Radford, a surveillance and threat assessment expert at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Redford leads a team searching for a hacker known as the Disruptor.
Their search is disrupted by a shower of meteors hitting Earth. The “meteors” contain large machines that wreak havoc on humans.
The entire movie is shown through surveillance and cell phone videos on Ice Cube’s computer screen.
LMO wrote, “War of the Worlds is just terrible, in every sense of the word. Ice Cube can’t even seem to drink a coffee convincingly.”
Another reviewer wrote: “I honestly believe an elementary school classroom full of kids shooting on an iPhone could do a better job than what was done in this movie!”
Someone else wrote: “Awful waste of time. I’m thinking they spent about 14 dollars making this.”
War of the Worlds is streaming now on Prime Video.
First trailer for a new ‘WAR OF THE WORLDS’ movie set entirely on a computer screen starring Ice Cube.
Releasing July 30 on Prime Video. pic.twitter.com/nFMSyjlrCf
— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) July 25, 2025
