At the end of July, the Ice Cube -led War of the Worlds was released to Amazon Prime Video subscription holders, and… well let’s just say that Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise’s 2005 adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel doesn’t need to worry about competition. This 2025 movie release was critically slammed and even had a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes for a time . Now Ice Cube has explained that the reason that this version of War of the Worlds turned out the way it did came out of necessity.

This new War of the Worlds took a screenlife approach with its source material by having Ice Cube’s Will Radford, a Department of Homeland Security officer, dealing with the alien invasion from behind a computer screen. As the actor explained while appearing on Kai Cenat Live , that’s because

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