War of the Worlds

Terrible. Just Terrible. Terrible acting. Terrible special effects. Terrible storyline. The list goes on and on. I honestly haven't watched something this bad in a long time. It is so bad that I felt depressed watching it. I cannot think of one single thing that is good about it. Complete and utter tripe.

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.

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.

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!!

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.