Recommendations of the Editorial team
Since the publication of HG Wells’ novel “The War of the Worlds” in 1897, history and its subsequent adaptations have served as a prime example of allegories about the power struggles that shape our world. And as a time capsule for the media that inform us about it. There was the radio show staged by Orson Welles, which actually convinced the audience from the fact that extraterrestrials attacked the earth. The Technicolor version of 1953 with Gene Barry, which was reminiscent of the news speaker era of the Second World War. And Steven Spielberg’s version from 2005 with Tom Cruise, who focused on 24-hour messages and the helplessness of a modern world without electricity. And now there is the Amazon Prime version of The War of the Worlds With Ice Cube, the … well, also exists.
When a finished script is derailed
Leave the almost prophetic slogan “It is worse than you think” and accompany Ice Cube in a fictional Washington, DC, for a story that is completely told as a screen recording of a government laptop. The hip-hop legend plays Radford, an employee of the Ministry of Internal Security, who works alone on a Sunday and monitally monitors American citizens.
In addition to the attempt to coordinate a secret raid against a digital terrorist named Disruptor, who threatens to publish government secrets, on the phone by video with the NASA scientist Sandra Salas (Eva Longoria) about mysterious weather across the country. Pursues his pregnant daughter Faith (Iman Benson) on public cameras to control her coffee residence process. Insults her Amazon driver friend Mark (Devon Bostick). Saves himself just enough time to criticize his streamer son David (Henry Hunter Hall) before jumping into a team call with national security guides.
But when a series of asteroids meets every major city in the world, including DC, it wants to use its super -secret espionage technology to bring both his son and his daughter to safety. And to find out what a league of attacking alien tripods wants from humanity-everything with the same keyboard attacks.
A mixed machine of lousy CGI effects and dead look from Ice Cube
The basic formula of “The War of the Worlds” has remained constant in the historical variations of history. Person. World. Robot. Invasion. Death. News. It is all the more shocking that a film that was practically already written for director Rich Lee is so spectacularly derailed here. This “War of the Worlds” is not bad or a masked-dass-E-Gut-act. It is a secret third category. A mixing machine of lousy CGI effects and dead look from Ice Cube, where you think you can identify individual brain cells when dying.
Since his breastfeeding publication on July 30th on Amazon’s streaming service Prime, “War of the Worlds” has built up a reputation for his pure absurdity through word of mouth. The film has a 0%score on the rating page of Rotten Tomatoes and has already become a meme material on platforms such as X and Tiktok. However, don’t be fooled by the noise. This company -friendly remake is so incomprehensible that you actively want it to be worse. Or just over.
Here are just a few examples of the astonishing details that the film wants to sell to the viewer as completely normal. Will and his NASA friend Sandra send strictly secret, time-critical government information about Microsoft Teams video chat. An FBI agent takes part in a secret terrorist raid while it is in Facetime. A highly qualified government agent does not know the key combinations for copying and inserting. A Gen-Z couple uses Facebook as a primary social network.
“Let’s do this War of the Worlds”
The president says the sentence: “Let’s do this War of the Worlds.” Ice Cube looks like several people die in a targeted fire attack. And is more upset about the fact that his house was destroyed. A (fictitious) tweet by Joe Rogan is shown on the screen as a serious proof of the success of the team. A persistent alien covering paralyzes the armies, the infrastructure and the communication centers in the world. But Will can also use Premiere Pro, Facetime, WhatsApp, Microsoft Teams, Zoom and control a Tesla. Oh yes: An Amazon Prime drone saves the day after a character seriously calls it “the future of delivery”.
No cult status, just headache
There have always been bad films. Sometimes they are so miserable that they get cult status again. Works such as “The Room”, “Sharknado” and “Repo! The genetic opera” have built up a fan base through this narrative style. A canon that this new “War of the Worlds” would only like to join. Unfortunately, the film is such a train accident that I personally exclude it forever. No thanks. Not about. Is that a film or a money laundering project? He is not even amusingly funny because you immediately distract you from the alien invasion, which unfolds before you, and instead think about which game debts the actors want to pay in this film.
If you pinch your eyes together, close it and then put your head against a brick or concrete wall several times, you could perhaps find irony in the fact that Wells’ groundbreaking anti-manifest-destiny text was okay by the company that could be accused of colonizing the Internet. But that would require brain performance. And “War of the Worlds” ensures that it completely disappears.