War of the Worlds (2025)

I watched this movie on Amazon Prime.

Wow... just wow. Where do I even start with this one? You know there's few movies that make me cringe or I actively hate when watching. This is one of those. I can now definitively say that the 2025 War of the Worlds is officially the second worst movie I've ever seen. Transformers: The Last Knight, is still my number one worst ever, but this War of the Worlds has now knocked Future War (1997), down from my #2 spot to #3 as my worst ever films.
And if I didn't absolutely hate what The Last Knight did to Unicron in that movie to where I was seething with rage watching it. Well this may have become my worst ever. The Last Knight is still my worst though, for now.
Anyways I'm meandering.

This movie is bafflingly bad. The entire film is just one big mess of plot hole, stupidity, factual errors... and tech magic mumbo jumbo made by someone who has no idea what the hell they are talking about or anything real about computers and cyber security.
Casting Ice Cube as the lead, has to be one of the dumbest, worst casting choices in the history of movies. Don't get me wrong... I like Ice Cube plenty enough if he's given the right role. He's sort of like Keanu Reeves in that way, you gotta give him the right role to excel. Though Keanu still has way more acting talent than Ice Cube.
Ice is good I somethings... like 21 Jump Street. He's funny and fitting for a role like that. A supporting character. I haven't seen Friday in ages but he was good in that.
But putting him as the lead in a serious alien, sci-fi, spy thriller with family drama? He is laughably horrible here.
We're supposed to believe this guy is like one of the top or is the top hacker and tech guy for DHS, when the stuff he spews is nonsense. And his acting for serious family moments is horrid. And when it comes to reacting to or talking about the alien threat... this dude just can't act. "Take your intergalactic asses back home! Back home!" or "A hell nah! " is the entire movie.
This is reaction channel the movie, except you're not even watching anything interesting with the reaction channel. Almost the whole movie is Ice Cube staring at a computer screen, spying on his family like a creep, and then having those Ice Cube moments at aliens attacking.

The special effects in this movie look like they were done on Adobe After Effects... from 15 years ago! Seriously, the lightning effects and alien crafts. I could do this in my Advertising Design Class in high school 15 years ago. This is a 2025 movie...

Well technically. Apparently this movie was actually made in 2020, back during the Covid. Then Universal just shelved it, passed it off to Amazon, and now Amazon is finally putting it out. Hence why there's so much damn Amazon product placement.

The acting is terrible, the plot makes no sense, the alien goal of eating data is moronic. The writers don't know how the military works, they don't know how cyber security and surveillance works. Hell, they don't even know how freaking computers work! and this ENTIRE movie is a dude looking at computer screens and yelling "Ah hell nah."

This movie makes my head hurt... so much so it's hard to do mistakes in it, but man I'm pushing through.

This is easily a 1 out of 5 starts. For I Hate It! It's right up there with Transformers: The Last Knight and Future War as the worst movies I've ever seen. Unless you're a masochist and want to suffer, or you want to see just how bad this movie really is... or if you're crazy enough to be like me and watch it for mistakes. Skip this turd bucket. Man it's hard not to cuss like a sailor in this review about this movie... Go home Ice Cube. You're drunk
Is he broke?

seriously... is Ice Cube broke? Why did he do this crap...

and even Clark Gregg felt like he was phoning it in the whole movie... which technically he was since he's only ever on a video call in the movie. He's better than this as I'm currently watching the Agents of Shield show and he's great in that. He's bad in this... really bad.


Mistake Status: Ugh, yeah this is currently my main movie project for the time being. And it's a real struggle to get through. I have a long ways to go... at the time of writing this review, I'm already at 27 mistakes. And I'm not even 5 minutes into the movie. The vast majority of those being tech fails with factual errors and... they have a cross walk camera showing it's coordinates as the middle of the pacific ocean... I can't even with this film...
yes this is my current main movie project. And normally this is where I'd stake my claim and hope people don't jump on trying to do this movie till I finish. But as bad as this film is, by all means if you wanna jump in and help me rip this one apart. Be my guest.

Side Note: this has sparked my interests in doing more of the War of the Worlds adaptations for mistakes so i'll do those. I really love the 2005 Tom Cruise movie. and as of writing this review, I've never seen the 1950s original yet. Also turns out there's a 2012 series that has 3 episodes I didn't know about, and a 2020 series with 8 episodes... I will probably try to check those out at some point also.

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