'War of the Worlds' Isn’t Just Bad. It’s Also Shameless Tech Propaganda

'War of the Worlds' Isn’t Just Bad. It’s Also Shameless Tech Propaganda

By making Big Tech the hero in a movie about government surveillance, the dismally rated remake feels more like an ad for Amazon than anything else.

Ice Cube's War of the Worlds (2025) Is A Spectacular Failure in Adaptation

Ice Cube’s 2025 film War of the Worlds: Revival, a screenlife-style reboot streamed on Amazon Prime Video, has emerged as one of the most spectacular flops in recent memory: critically derided, stylistically misguided, and thematically bankrupt. Director Rich Lee’s choice to reimagine the epic alien invasion entirely through computer and device screens may, in theory, mirror how modern threats unfold online. But as critics note, despite its prem…

Amazon’s ‘War of the Worlds’ movie isn’t so bad it’s good. It’s just very, very bad

This meme-fodder remake starring Ice Cube will actively destroy your brain cells without the added benefit of being fun