Imagine if a technologically advanced alien race invaded Earth to steal our most valuable resources, and the only way to defeat them was to order something from Amazon Prime.

This is, quite literally, the plot of the newest adaptation of H.G. Wells’ seminal sci-fi classic The War of the Worlds, which translates the author’s vision of planetwide Tripod-induced bloodshed to the screen—specifically, to screenlife.

If the computer-tab-and-FaceTime-window subgenre seems like an odd choice with which to visualize a disaster story of extraterrestrial proportions, just wait until you see the movie’s star Ice Cube—yes, Ice Cube—capital-R Reacting to stock footage of explosions while briefing the President of the United States about alien Armageddon.

Director Rich Lee’s feature film debut War

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