Alien bad: new film with Ice Cube Floppt

The “War of the Worlds” new film with rapper and actor Ice Cube receives devastating reviews. Now his son reports.

The new adaptation of the science fiction classic “The War of the Worlds” by HG Wells celebrated its premiere on Amazon Prime Video on July 30th. But the film directed by Rich Lee is extremely bad: the remake with Ice Cube and Eva Longoria in the leading roles currently holds the humiliating 0%value in rotting tomatoes. So far, only 15 critics have been given their opinion in the inside, but the number is growing.

Invasion of the screenlife style

According to the content description on Amazon Prime Video, spectators can expect “a huge invasion in a modern reinterpretation of the classic novel”. Eva Longoria is performed as a central figure, which together with Ice Cube, Michael O’Neill and Iman Benson leads through a sci-fi scenario, in which topics such as technology, surveillance and privacy are taken up. The film mainly takes place via the user interface of its computer and relies on the so-called “screenlife” format. Ice Cube takes on the role of Will Radford, a specialist in surveillance technology from the US Ministry of Homeland. While an alien invasion threatens the world, Radford comes between a hacker attack and his own family drama. But the reception of the film is underground.

“Silling silly, sloppy, advertising” – critics: inside tear the remake on the inside

So Ed Power criticized the “telegraph“The rapper Ice Cube’s excessive screen presence and described the film as” silly and sloppy “. He shows too much of Ice Cube, who, as a “rapper-turned leading man”, is staring at a computer screen, “as if he has to deal with a fairly urgent digestive disorder”. Peter Debrudge from “Variety“On the other hand, the amount of advertising that you have to endure during the film complained:” Even with a Prime subscription, you have to watch two minutes of advertising, and then see a feature film for 90 minutes, which is basically an advertising for everything that has to do with Amazon “.

Users: Inside on social media reports of massive logic errors and a flat dramaturgy. So a user wrote on X: “I can hardly believe that this adaptation of ‘War of the Worlds’ is actually a real film, with a real budget and Ice Cube actually plays along”. Cubes son, the actor O’Shea Jackson Jr., replied dryly: “The film was shot during the pandemic. He came to cinemas 5 years later”.

So far, none has been: r The actor: reported on the reviews inside, and a reaction from Ice Cube is still being waited.