While Ice Cube is the top-billed star of the latest adaptation of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds , he is not the film’s hero. Nor are any of the other human characters. The true savior in this alien invasion story is Amazon , the global conglomerate whose products and services become the only means to repel an extraterrestrial menace.

For instance: The only way to get an all-important MacGuffin to Cube’s Department of Homeland Security hacker is for another character (who just so happens to be an Amazon deliveryman) to utilize Amazon’s drone delivery service to ship him the crucial gadget. While said character is racing to stop the total obliteration of the planet, he pauses long enough to explain that Amazon’s drone service is called Prime Air and that it is “the future of de

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