{"id":113526,"date":"2025-08-02T17:27:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T17:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/113526\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T17:27:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T17:27:15","slug":"prime-videos-new-sci-fi-movie-is-inferior-to-tom-cruises-version-on-rotten-tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/113526\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Video’s New Sci-Fi Movie Is Inferior To Tom Cruise’s Version On Rotten Tomatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new science fiction movie from Prime Video<\/strong><\/a> is performing even worse on Rotten Tomatoes than a Tom Cruise version of the same story. The Amazon-run streaming service has debuted a variety of original movies, including the comedy legacy sequels Borat Subsequent Moviefilm and Coming 2 America, as well as the Chris Pratt-led sci-fi thriller The Tomorrow War.<\/p>\n

While The Tomorrow War is most likely their biggest sci-fi title, they have dabbled in the sci-fi genre a number of other times<\/strong>, as has Tom Cruise. Although the four-time Oscar nominee may be best known for the Mission: Impossible movies<\/a> in the modern era, he has starred in quite a few sci-fi projects. <\/p>\n

His outings in the genre include the time loop movie Edge of Tomorrow<\/strong>, Steven Spielberg’s Philip K. Dick adaptation Minority Report, the 2013 Joseph Kosinski movie Oblivion (which set the stage for the star and director’s reunion in the 2022 smash Top Gun: Maverick), and a movie with a story that has recently been re-adapted.<\/p>\n

War Of The Worlds Is Not Performing Well On The Popcornmeter<\/p>\n

The movie in question is 2005’s War of the Worlds<\/a>, which saw Tom Cruise reunite with Steven Spielberg for an epic adaptation of the H. G. Wells alien invasion novel of the same name. While the movie has a Certified Fresh 76% Rotten Tomatoes score and grossed a whopping $603.9 million, it earned a dismal 42% from audiences on the Popcornmeter<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

War of the Worlds has been brought to the screen once more with a new Prime Video movie starring Ice Cube<\/strong>, Eva Longoria, and Clark Gregg. The screenlife movie, which has the invading aliens consuming humanity’s data, was directed by Rich Lee from a screenplay by Kenneth A. Golde and Marc Hyman.<\/p>\n

Although 2025’s War of the Worlds is currently Prime Video’s most-watched movie globally, it has not fared quite so well critically. While it does not yet have enough reviews from critics to earn a Tomatometer score, more than 100 viewers have rated it on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, giving it a dismal 10% Popcornmeter score <\/strong>that sinks far below the 2005 movie.<\/p>\n

What This Means For War Of The Worlds<\/p>\n

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As the Tom Cruise movie<\/a> revealed, War of the Worlds doesn’t have to win over Rotten Tomatoes audiences in order to succeed commercially. However, the fact that the Prime Video<\/strong> movie has earned such a perilously low score could damage its prospects, because it seems highly unlikely to earn the word of mouth necessary to become a long-term streaming hit.<\/p>\n

Source: Rotten Tomatoes<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n Release Date<\/strong>\n <\/dt>\n
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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJuly 30, 2025<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

\n Runtime<\/strong>\n <\/dt>\n
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\t\t\t\t145 Minutes<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

\n Director<\/strong>\n <\/dt>\n
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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRich Lee<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

\n Writers<\/strong>\n <\/dt>\n
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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMarc Hyman, Kenny Golde, H.G. Wells<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

\n Producers<\/strong>\n <\/dt>\n
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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTimur Bekmambetov<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new science fiction movie from Prime Video is performing even worse on Rotten Tomatoes than a Tom…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":113527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,53,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-113526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114960351220424588","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}