"War of the Worlds, the 2025 " screenlife" movie following Ice Cube as a Homeland Security employee who defends the world from an alien invasion, isn't so bad it's good. It's so bad it's fascinating. It contains painfully blunt Amazon Prime product placement, a sudden and bizarre appeal to the alt-right, and a scene where the protagonist hacks into his daughter's fridge to criticize her eating habits, among other oddities. And according to the movie's star, the production was just as baffling as the contents."
"While appearing on internet personality Kai Cenat's livestream (per ), Ice Cube spoke about the production of War of the Worlds. "We shot it in 15 days, and it was during the pandemic," he said. "So, the director wasn't in there, none of the actors was in there. This was the only way we could really shoot the movie.""
War of the Worlds (2025) is a screenlife alien-invasion film starring Ice Cube as a Homeland Security employee defending Earth. The film features blatant Amazon Prime product placement, an unexpected appeal to the alt-right, and a scene where the protagonist hacks his daughter's refrigerator to criticize her eating habits. Production took place during the pandemic and was filmed in roughly 15 days with actors and director absent from sets. The movie uses footage presented as real surveillance cameras worldwide, requiring substantial built visual scaffolding. The attempt to blend epic war scope with a single-screen thriller results in a disjointed final product.
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