A new adaptation of H. G. Wells’ seminal sci-fi classic "The War of the Worlds" released on Amazon Prime in late July, making waves on social media for all the wrong reasons.
It was so bad that it might considered as this year's biggest flop. It currently sits at 0 percent on Rotten Tomatoes with 14 reviews. The audience score, with more than a thousand reviews, is a mere 14 percent.
The movie takes place entirely on various screens, following Ice Cube’s Will Radford (a surveillance expert for the Department of Homeland Security) as he witnesses the alien invasion from his computer.
Many have latched onto a text card in the film’s trailer that reads, "IT’S WORSE THAN YOU THINK" as a sign of the movie’s quality (or lack thereof). The trailer itself, which released in mid-July, became a mini online phenomenon for its bizarre tease of the screenlife adaptation.
"YOU ARE YOUR DATA," one text card in the trailer reads. "DATA IS THEIR FOOD. YOU ARE THE HARVEST," two more text cards follow. It’s not dissimilar to the cadence found in an "I Think You Should Leave Sketch" where Tim Robinson proclaims, "The bones are the skeletons’ money. In our world, bones equal dollars."
Things picked up once the movie itself began streaming on Amazon Prime, with scores of social media users dogpiling the latest adaptation of the sci-fi classic.
"I can’t believe this is real," one X user posted. Others mocked the film’s frequent Amazon product placement, including a scene where "Prime Air" saves the day.
"War of the Worlds (2025) is the worst adaption of the source material to date. It had no ideas beyond the found footage approach, and even then the film is struggling to find ways to present coherent scenes. Ice Cube is so lost. Maybe one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen," another one posted.
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