The Ice Cube-starring “War of the Worlds” — a film that wrapped production five years ago— was finally dumped on Prime Video in August. Maybe that was a bad idea.
The reviews for this one made it an automatic Razzie contender. “War of the Worlds” has a 4% on Rotten Tomatoes and 6 on Metacritic. The film currently has an IMDb score of 2.5/10. It’s been relentlessly mocked online. Regardless, its star has finally come out of the woodwork and set the record straight about his stinker.
Ice Cube explains to Kai Cenat that “War of the Worlds” needed some creative workaround, and was shot in 2 weeks during COVID, with the director totally absent from the set.
This is a movie we did during the COVID pandemic. We shot it in 15 days. The director wasn’t there, the actors weren’t there. This was the only way we could shoot the movie
The film’s plot feels like a 2-hour commercial for Amazon, and has been accused of that by critics and audiences.
In “War of the Worlds,” an Amazon deliveryman in full gear, drives a branded truck. Entire delivery-drone sequences—including an Amazon checkout interface and gift card bribe—are key plot elements. No, really, they bribe a homeless man with a $1,000 Amazon gift car
This modern-day reimagining of H.G. Wells’ classic alien invasion tale, stars Ice Cube as a top cyber-security analyst (don’t laugh) who begins to suspect that the real threat might not be coming from the sky, but from within the very institution he serves—after an unprecedented attack shakes the system.
Cube is joined by Eva Longoria, in a cast that also includes Clark Gregg, Andrea Savage, Henry Hunter Hall, Iman Benson, Devon Bostick, and Michael O’Neill. The screenplay was written by Kenneth Golde and Marc Hyman.
