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This was comically bad. Some of the worst acting across the board, paired with an incredibly uninspired script filled with dated and predictable tropes. Even the CGI looked low quality and cheap. Considering there was virtually no press or advertising for this film, it is clear even the producers knew it would be a total flop. I truly do not understand why this rendition was made. It adds nothing to the original and does not continue the storyline. It feels like the Kidz Bop version of an alien movie. The best actors in the film were the aliens. I would rather listen to the loud screeching sound they make for 90 minutes than sit through this joke of a film again.

Howard The Duck is a far better alien invasion movie, than this absolute steaming pile of ****.

There was no reason to make this movie, it is an insult the HG Wells and the entire genre.

The acting is terrible, you care little about the characters, and the CGI looks like it was generated using an Amiga 500.

If H. G. Wells could see what they've done to War of the Worlds, he'd crawl out of his grave, seize the nearest webcam, and apologise personally to every viewer. This 2025 remake isn't a film-it's a cry for help wrapped in a Teams call, sprinkled with alien noises, and served lukewarm via a Prime subscription you forgot to cancel.

Let's start with the aesthetic. Imagine if a GCSE media class was told to make a sci-fi film using only screenshots, bad Wi-Fi, and a laptop with 2% battery. Now remove all humour, tension, and character development-and give Ice Cube a webcam and a plot he clearly didn't read. Voilà! You have War of the Worlds: 2025.

The filmmakers-visionaries, I presume-have boldly decided to tell this epic tale almost entirely through video calls, file searches, and screen recordings. Because nothing screams cinema like watching a grown man mutter "Can you hear me now?" while an alien invasion supposedly unfolds offscreen. Hitchcock used suspense. Spielberg used wonder. This uses desktop notifications.

Ice Cube stars as a sort of cyber-survivalist dad with the emotional range of a fax machine. He spends most of the film yelling into various devices, occasionally squinting at an alien threat that we're told is terrifying but which mostly looks like a Windows 98 screensaver gone rogue. I kept waiting for him to say, "Alexa, save humanity," but alas, even that would've been too engaging.

Eva Longoria phones it in-literally. Her performance is 40% lag, 60% existential regret. You can actually see the exact moment she realises she's trapped in a movie that feels like it was directed by Clippy, the old Microsoft Word assistant: "It looks like you're trying to make a sci-fi film. Would you like some help?"

Plot-wise? Picture a disaster movie written by ChatGPT after one too many espressos and a broken caps lock key. The story unfolds (or rather, oozes) through dialogue that sounds like it was ripped from corporate training videos: "We have to initiate the data protocol!" "Reboot the firewall!" "Send the drone!" I kept expecting someone to share their screen and walk us through a pivot table.

Then, just when you think it can't get any worse, the film goes full infomercial: a literal Amazon Prime delivery drone becomes a crucial plot device. I swear on Spielberg's beard. The world is ending, and the hero has to buy a gadget on Prime to fix it. I half-expected a pop-up: "Customers who bought this item also saved civilisation."

To be fair, a few reviewers online called it "underrated" and "thought-provoking." I can only assume they were bots, bored interns, or sentient toasters trying to assimilate into human culture by watching the worst we have to offer.

Watching this film felt like being slowly strangled by ethernet cables while Clippy cheers you on. It's not just a bad film-it's a philosophical event. A meditation on the futility of time, money, and broadband. A reminder that just because you can make a movie entirely on Zoom... doesn't mean you should.

Final verdict: If you've ever wanted to experience what it's like to die of secondhand embarrassment while waiting for a buffering screen to load the apocalypse, War of the Worlds (2025) is your masterpiece. For everyone else, I recommend looking at a turned-off TV for 90 minutes. More tension, better acting.

Inexplicable non-stop use of split screen with online conference software app like Zoom and Teams, with close ups of the apps themselves, and their annoying sounds and menus.

Meanwhile half the screen for most of the time we get Ice Cube's face and terrible acting making us wish for the Microsoft Teams menu to be shown up close again.

The government security expert doesn't seem very well trained, using his work computer to video call every Tom, Dick and Harry that he knows throughout the day, and therefore too busy so can only send text messages to the people he actually works with.

I had to switch off because I could not stand it any longer.

I always thought that the second Independence Day movie would be the worst movie I ever saw, I was wrong.

This makes it look like The Godfather The plot is so weak, you could drive a coach and horses through the plot holes The best bit however is when it turns into an advert for Amazon when they introduce Prime Drone delivery where the hero needs to buy something from prime to allow it to work.

I can only believe that Ice Cube and Eva Longoria had tax bills they needed to fund to sign up for this nonsense.

I've watched this so you don't have to, you all owe me.

No storyline. Talent free acting. Senseless main character who doesn't do anything except hapless shoving the mouse pointer over the screen. For 20 minutes! The movie says: you have to believe now that the main character and his daughter are geniuses, because we say so. They are not, whatsoever. The alien spaceships appeared after 25 minutes into the movie, but it is too late, they can have this earth, it is not worthy to be saved.

Why was this film even remade? Did anyone on the team think it was going to be comparable to the last version? It's just so, so bad from start to finish. Save the 90 minutes and literally watch anything else. I don't even know how to describe it. Does not even resemble the novel by Wells or any version that was ever produced in another medium. Bad storyline, bad acting, bad cinematography. Just bad.

If you are looking for great use of 90 minutes of your time, this for sure isn't it.

The film is a disappointing mix of webcam footage, horrible jump-cuts, web apps, web searches, weird zooming in, painfully forced modern slang, and acting on par with the worst Teams meeting you've ever sat through.

I'm not really sure what possessed anyone to, A: fund this, B: sign onto it, and C: watch this. I know I'm guilty of C, but truly it mostly due to the fact it reminded me of some of Steven Seagal's end-of-career movies in that it's so horrifically bad/sad/woeful/embarrassing that you literally cannot take your eyes off it for fear of missing the next level of sigh inducing head shaking. In some respects it does keep the audience on edge with the interest of "just how bad can this get from here?" and this is the one area where the movie does NOT let you down.

The best irony is that this installment is titled "Revival", which would lead you to believe that there is a return to stature or something, but this edition does nothing more than leave you with the feeling that it should have been left alone and Cube and Eva Longoria will enjoy the albatross references of their association to this movie for years to come.

Everyone involved in this should be on trial in the Hague. An absolute abomination of a film. Should be shown in schools as an example of how not to write, act, direct. Sound design is appalling too. Giving HG Wells a writing credit is a disgrace and his estate should sue. The worst thing apart from everything about this sub 1st year film school project is it is boring. Really boring.

Look, I know War of the Worlds (2025) has a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, but swapping Ice Cube for Diddy? Whole new experience. Suddenly, this isn't just a "screenlife alien invasion" flick - it's a three-hour Bad Boy Records reunion tour with a plot.

Diddy plays Homeland Security agent Marcus Payne, tasked with stopping alien data-eaters who hack fridges, laptops, and Xboxes. Ice Cube's original version came off tired; Diddy, though, brings pure entrepreneur energy. Every time the aliens strike, he's adjusting a diamond cufflink, dropping lines like "I don't chase invaders... I replace invaders" before hitting a Microsoft Teams call.

The product placement? Still shameless. Amazon drones deliver plot devices. Prime Air rescues civilians. Microsoft Teams gets more screentime than the actual aliens. But with Diddy at the helm, it feels intentional - like he's in on the joke. When a Prime drone shows up mid-chase, he actually gives it a nod like it's part of his entourage.

Sure, the CGI aliens still look like rejected Fortnite skins, and yes, the pacing is somehow both frantic and slow. But Diddy's charisma patches over the worst of it. His scenes in a leather trench coat lit only by webcam glow? Iconic. His mid-battle pep talk that feels more like a brand pitch? Legendary.

Is it a good movie? Absolutely not. Is it a good time? Oh, definitely. This version becomes less of a sci-fi epic and more of a campy, overproduced rap video masquerading as end-of-the-world cinema.

If you're in it for high art, skip it. But if you want to watch Diddy fight pixelated aliens while plugging Amazon Prime like it's the Super Bowl halftime show... this might be the best worst movie of the year.

I'm giving this movie a bonus star for the writers managing to work in the classic lyrics of a way back playback.

What a silly film! I was scared for a hot minute until I realized that none of the main characters were going to be killed off. It was pretty easy to accept my fate of being stuck on a seemingly never ending zoom/Teams call....reminded me of real life.

I am glad they didn't waste time on character development.

An insult to H. G Wells and our intelligence.

If you are looking for meaningless millennial action, and have a TikTok attention span, this is it. But it doesn't hold a light to the original material.

Shallow characters, poor acting, poor writing, all CGI and just absolute trash and a watch once, throw away piece of entertainment..

What is this? I'm struggling to comprehend what I have just witnessed...

Imagine taking the story of War of the Worlds, a well-beloved sci-fi novel, then turned into a screen life presentation, but make it boring, idiotic, and pure cringeworthy to observe. This movie is basically that.

Every single moment of the writing, presentation, directing, visuals, editing, acting, and structure is so poor, sloppy, and annoying. Nothing about the writing makes any sense regarding it's sci-fi concepts, the logic, and the meaning behind it, and it's plastered with some real awful uses of CGI, sound designs, chopping editing, and bad dialogue. It's pretty clear the filmmakers and people involved with his movie clearly don't understand how the internet works because many uses of the digital platforms and presentation clearly shows the lack of logic and understanding behind it.

Ice Cube was absolutely bad in this movie and he usually tends to be pretty fun to watch. I don't know what happened here. Frankly, all of the performances are awful. Alongside with the terrible characters and uninteresting dynamics. The worst aspect is that this feels like a product placement for Amazon because there are lots of Amazon Product Placements throughout this movie, and it's pathetic.

I thought Smurfs (2025, Hurry Up Tomorrow, The Electric State, The King of Kings, and the Minecraft Movie was bad, but this one tops off the notch for the worst movie of 2025 thus far.

It's hard to understand how this got the green light. War of the Worlds is a classic, and this limp, low-budget remake does it no justice whatsoever. Ice Cube's involvement raises more questions than answers, and the result feels more like a rushed sci-fi parody than a serious adaptation.

Compared to recent takes, especially the recent TV series this version is leagues behind. Even the 2005 Spielberg film, for all its flaws, looks like a masterpiece next to this. A painful watch that adds nothing new and takes far too much away. Some things are better left untouched this was one of them.

Worst film i have ever watched.

This is and will always be 90 minutes of my life wasted.

Somehow, my dad actually enjoyed it.

Nether watch this film if you have self respect.

This film should be used as torture on death row.

This film is a waste of mine and your time, if you watch this film you will never be disappointed with any other film again.

The movie was one of the worst ice cube movies. His acting was monotonous and only seeing the movie through a computer screen was overused. Most of it to me was stretched out to fill up the the hour and the beginning spent time on meaningless poeces to the movie. I very much did not enjoy the movie.

This movie is a complete waste of cinematic resources! Ice Cube is ridiculous as 'Mr Everything'! The story line development is completely obstructed by all the 'family drama' from Ice's character. I'd have quit watching it were it not for it being 105 degrees outside. The writers of this must be about 15 years old! Basically just a poorly written and directed movie!!

I've seen better acting and production values in High School student movies. It was like watching a car crash - in that you know that you shouldn't but you're inextricably drawn to watching it. Eva I think you're great BUT what were you thinking of? I just hope that the pay day was worth it. The bookies may as well close the book on this year's Razzie awards of this version of WOTW will achieve a clean sweep.

... And thats what movies are for.

Firstly, for those who do not know, this was filmed during lockdowns which may have had an impact on the quality in general and how the film was shot.

Secondly IMDB is wrong, its 90 mins not almost 2 and a half hours, but maybe the length got cut due to lockdowns, I have no idea.

Thirdly (tertiary), I wont go into other reviews too much as no opinion is wrong, all such media is subjective but having said that, reviews giving one or two out of ten I feel are not being objectively honest.

Now the film, no spoilers.

This is very loosely an H. G Wells reimagined modern day telling of the story from mostly one persons perspective, it relies almost 100 percent on the use of the internet, teams video calls as the medium to tell the story, obviously this originally aired via the radio which was the medium of the day and I felt that this modern day telling was relatively accurate to how I would imagine this would go down today.

It does help if you have at least a basic understanding of how the above mentioned forms of software are now being widely used to communicate with each other, and if you have not had any access to video calls and the internet in general, I can see how this would be hard to follow as other reviewers have stated.

The effects of the film are clearly rather low budget but they tell the story adequately, just dont expect blockbuster style effects.

The script, is in places a let down. The story itself is very rushed in places, for example, the main character drastically changes his life's views and opinion in a couple of seconds which is simply not believable and a little cringe.

A couple of switches in the narrative of the movie also stand out as a "Really????" moment.

Having said all of this, I went to start watching as I saw the first several reviews giving a 1 or 2 out of ten, calling it the worst film ever and I honestly was expecting to turn it off after 10 minutes once my urge to see just how bad it can be was scratched.

I watched the while film, and I was honestly entertained.

If you are ok with somewhat basic rushed and a little cheesy script and effects that really do look like mediocre CGI at best, the story and the new take on this old troupe was enjoyable.

This will win no awards, but it was different, I liked it, I am glad it was made and that I watched it and decided to write this review to counter the rather harsh one and two star reviews.

For me its a 5 to 6 out of ten, I should point out I am quite a harsh scorer, almost every film I have seen, I rate one star lower than IMDB does.

Give it 20 minutes, if you dont like, dont carry on.

They suckered me in with big names: Ice Cube, Clark Gregg and Michael O'Neill.

I'm sorry but Ice Cube is not believable as NSA and neither is Eva Longoria believable as NASA.

The daughter is meant to be incredibly smart as a biologist but she's kinda stupid. I guess you can forgive her as even the most intelligent people can be dumb when panicked.

The dialogue is so basic and almost juvenile. The film seems rushed, they figured out how to save the day too easily.

The Tripods were the only thing I didn't hate.

I am obviously being generous giving this a 2 but in the brief moments when you can visualize the special effects, I had to give them some credit for trying.

Ice cube is not and has never been an actor. Screaming at a camera does not make you dramatic. It makes you one dimensional. Maybe screaming when rapping works but not in moviedom.

I could not find one scene where the few actors in this production were seen together. Consequently, it is like somebody used an Osmo pocket to film the individual actors and spliced it all together thinking they were making a movie.

And I am being generous also in calling this a movie. Editing is horrible and the pace is so frenetic one becomes dizzy watching it.

Whatever amount was spent on the budget was wasted. And Prime should be ashamed for airing this.

But I guess the joke is on me as I sat here and watched the whole thing. But what the heck. It's almost 100° outside and I'm killing time indoors. Such is retired life.

Can only assume Cube was bored and wanted to make a film...which was boring.

Typical cheap film trying to be modern with everything done on computers, phones and video calls.

Lame graphics and very minimal attention to detail.

Concept had promise, just very poorly executed.

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