“Here we go” is both the first line of the 2025 Amazon Prime movie War of the Worlds and exactly what I said when I chose to watch it after the shitstorm of reviews that warned me not to.

Directed by Rich Lee and shot exclusively through online calls and surveillance feed POVs, War of the Worlds centers around domestic terror analyst William Radford, played by Ice Cube, who is on a mission to save his family and the country from alien cyborgs who are deadset on eating our data. Literally.

At first glance, the film’s three percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes—up from zero percent when it debuted—seems both impressive and predictable. While getting a rating below five percent seems like a difficult feat, remaking a classic (1953’s The War of the Worlds has 89 percent on Rotten Tomatoes

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