War of the World’s Worst Movie
- Jack Efthimiou
- 6 hours ago
- 2 min read
Amazon Prime Video took the 2025 film War of the Worlds off the shelf, and everybody hated it. Amazon produced the movie, starring O’Shea Jackson Sr., better known as Ice Cube, and directed by Rich Lee, in 2021 but released it to the public in 2025.
With a four percent on Rotten Tomatoes, War of the Worlds is objectively one of the worst-rated movies in history. It lacks action because the main character sits at his desk for the entire runtime.
Jackson Sr. plays William Radford, a technician working on the Department of Homeland Security’s computer surveillance program who can observe every person on earth. Radford searches for a hacker known as Disruptor when hostile aliens arrive in meteorites and attack the world with their machines. Radford must watch over his pregnant daughter, Faith (Iman Benson), and son, Dave (H. Hunter Hall), while fighting back against the invaders from his office.
War of the Worlds is a dull film because the coronavirus pandemic made it impossible to shoot from multiple locations. Therefore, it makes sense that the only “action scenes” consist of Jackson Sr. attempting to get through a door and acting in front of a green screen for most of the movie. However, this does not excuse the many plot holes and instances of Amazon product placements in the movie, nor how the film appears to be recorded on a Zoom call.
The movie’s message on the dangers of government data collection makes sense but does not reach its audience. Viewers are busy laughing at the quality and bad writing and cannot appreciate the warning behind it.
War of the Worlds seems to lack everything that makes a movie a movie, as one needs to look no further than the obnoxious product placements or the terrible acting to realize this film should have been left on the drawing board. I would think that a trillion-dollar company such as Amazon would have the money to spend on quality producing, but it seems they did not have the filming capabilities to produce a solid thriller.
