War of the Worlds (2025)
Directed by Rich Lee
Will Radford is a top analyst for Homeland Security who tracks potential threats through a mass surveillance program, until one day an attack by an unknown entity leads him to question whether the government is hiding something from him... and from the rest of the world.
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What critics compared War of the Worlds to
The whole conceit of the movie, much like 2025’s War of the Worlds, hinges on a character trying to solve the life-or-death task at hand by sitting in front of a computer.
…the results only bring to mind another Amazon MGM belter, the shambolic Ice Cube version of War of the Worlds…
…it's not much different than watching the 2025 "War of the Worlds" film, wherein the entire picture takes place on laptop windows.
…culminating in perhaps the ultimate example of the concept just last year: the reviled Ice Cube vehicle, War of the Worlds…
Nothing proved as such more than last year’s Amazon commer—I mean, Prime Video disasterpiece that was War of the Worlds, which Bekmambetov produced.
It’ll come as no surprise that the director, Timur Bekmambetov, has produced several “screenlife” films – movies that take place primarily on a computer screen. Searching, Unfriended, and that horrendous Ice Cube-led War of the Worlds are all in his filmography.