Ice Cube’s ‘War Of The Worlds’ gets 0% Rotten Tomatoes score—and faces mockery on social media

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29 comments

  1. It looked like they tried to copy the movie Unfriended but had no idea why the premise actually worked for that film.

  3. I wish I had someone like Ice Cube to tell me to get away from the giant robots.

  4. A critical plot point of this movie is buying an Amazon gift card to save the world.

    This is not a joke.

  6. I swear when I first saw that trailer pop up on YouTube I thought it was one of those AI “concept’ trailers that some enthusiasts like to create.   That, or some sort of advertisement using the humorous concept of Ice Cube on the lookout for aliens. 

  7. Does he get fired…on his day off? No?…don’t care.

  8. Is it bad that I wanna see it because of the reviews? Movie sounds like it’s hilarious

  9. >The movie is a modern remake of the century-old novel, and it is told completely through the perspective of computer screens as characters interact with one another through video calls.

    Imagine getting off work and going to see a movie about people making Zoom calls. I get it that everyone wants to work from home, but making a movie that way does not seem like a good idea.

  11. 0% is kind of a selling point. I’m more interested than I was before I saw this

  12. Great marketing all around. I only watched it because of the car-crash reviews. Lots of products were stuffed in it.

  13. Well now I do want to watch it and then palate cleanse with Friday.

  14. It’s like watching your parents use a computer and yell at the screen. Crossed with a training module for software at a job. Mixed with Ice Cube’s delivery which is like “the dumb kid has to read aloud in class.” Mixed with complete on-screen order placement.

    It was worse than I imagined from reading the bad reviews. Unwatchable.

    I think it will age well. Meaning, it will give people something to laugh at in the future.

  15. Ice Cube always looks like he’s trying hard to hold in a big shit.

  17. This one isn’t even fun-bad. The laziness is so obvious it’s frankly insulting to watch.

  19. I saw the trailer where he was FaceTiming his daughter and he was like “oh woah! What is that!? Oh my! Get out of there my daughter!” And i immediately knew I wasn’t gonna watch it.

  20. Ahem.

    Ice Cube should have stuck to the masterpiece that was the Kool Aid movie.

    It had Scorsese as the director.

    It was a Academy and Oscar Award contender.

  22. i made my wife turn it off about 15 minutes in because the constant Teams Call Ringtone was giving me PTSD from work.

    it seemed so boring as a movie

  24. Not that it’s an excuse, but I’d was filmed during COVID lockdowns, so nobody could really be in the same room together. And then the studio sat on it for 4 years.

    It’s like a keeping a fart inside for 2 weeks and then letting it rip, whaaaaaat a stinker it must be.

  25. I watched it. I actually watched the whole film and can confidently say this is the worst acting Cube has ever done. It’s not entirely his fault, seeing as the writing is complete trash. Im not sure who decided it was a good idea to have the whole film in the perspective of a Skype call… but they should probably retire from filmmaking.

  26. When I saw the trailer, the moment Ice Cube yells ” Get away from that!” into the mic , I laughed my ass off. What the hell is this movie

  27. For anyone thinking this will be “so bad it’s good” I can tell you that isn’t the case. It’s very bad but also very boring.

  28. I actually watched this movie today; because I wanted to see why it was so bad.

    I am convinced it was an advert for prime Air (drone delivery) and other big corporations. This super duper top security clearance surveillance department used Microsoft teams to communicate. Facebook, WhatsApp, FaceTime (iPhone), Tesla, YouTube, Gmail, all used as some weird advertisement (that is what it felt like). The script was terrible and felt like it was created by a ChatGPT with basic generic film prompts. “Zoom now!” But teams was used. The whole premise was about knocking out satellites, communications, power, water etc but somehow everyone could communicate and the internet still functioned. At one point all the “data was wiped” and we watched Facebook delete and go into a 404 error. Then a few scenes later Facebook was used again and working fine. One scene ice cube is running from his desk to exit the building to help his daughter down a stair well. Then suddenly he is back at his desk.

    The sound mix was so bad! The FX scenes were super loud.

    I highly recommend if you fancy a laugh.

  29. The oddest thing about this movie is that he is like “Son you are a loser since you play video games!” like its a 90’s movie where that is still some kind of “nerdy” thing? Its 2025.

    Its just so tone deaf that this movie is trying to use new media as a way of conveying the story but misses the mark on how commonplace gaming is now. The same with “they need our data”. That isn’t how data works, and its a weird thing to be out of the loop on.

    the only explanation i can think of is that Neil Breen wrote this.

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