He has an epic title, a renowned star such as his leadership and a great study behind him.
But since he launched in the main video of Amazon on July 25, “War of the World” has become a bust of grades of all time.
The new adaptation of HG Wells’ book was classified as one of the worst films of all time by the Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.
The film stars Ice Cube as an expert in surveillance of national security and threat evaluation Will Radford, who uses government technology to spy and then helps, his children in the midst of an alien invasion that develops. Radford is in his desktop the entire film, watching events that take place in front of him on the screen of a computer.
Eva Longoria, Michael O’Neill, Olivia deaurentis and Clark Gregg also star in the film, which was directed by Rich Lee.
In Rotten Tomatoes, the science fiction film has an insignificant rating of 3% in the “Tomatometer”, which tracks critical criticism, and 21% in the “Popcornmeter”, which tracks the reviews of the audience.
The list of “Worst films at all times” by Rotten Tomatoes occupies the position “War of the Worlds” 88. The science fiction thriller 2002 “Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever “is number 1. The only other 2025 title to make the list is the” Alarum “of Sylvester Stallone.
Only a critic, Jordan Hoffman from Entertainment Weekly, gave “War of the Worlds” a cool ranking certified, writing: “It is certainly stupid, but it is also very fun.”
Most others described the film as the worst version of Wells’s novel in 1898 about Martians who invade the Earth. Past adaptations include the transmission of CBS radio directed by Orson Welles in 1938, a 1953 Technicolor film, starring Gene Barry, and Steven Spielberg’s film 2005, starring Tom Cruise.
Read “Butcher the classic science fiction parable about the colonialist evils of humanity and creates an unpleasant and completely brain exercise (smuggling argument) in the propaganda of the capitalist and surveillance state,” wrote a critic of Rotten Tomatoes.
Some online pointed out that they felt like the motto of the film, which is “is worse than you think” is an appropriate way to summarize their reactions to the film itself.
Read and the cast have not publicly approached the reaction.
Neither Universal Pictures, who produced the film, nor Amazon Studios, who distributed it, responded to the requests for comments. (Universal Pictures is a division of the NBC News matrix, NBC Universal).
But as with some other films that receive bad criticisms, the reaction to the “War of the Worlds” has also made it bustling.
Many spectators have transformed ICE Cube’s reactions into several scenes in memes and gif.
The film has solidified a place in the online database knows its meme.
The website attributes the increase in online traction to a July 21 publication in the user’s X “Pordolotony”, which shared a film from the film. The user wrote: “The War of the Worlds (2025) is the worst adaptation of the source material to date. He had no ideas beyond the approach of images found.” The publication had been seen 1.9 million times since Tuesday.
Tiktok and X users have also continued mocking the performance, dialogue, piracy of excessively simplified devices and hard hand messaging on the surveillance of mass government and conspiracy theories.
“It sounds like Ice Cube is reading directly from a script that I had never seen before …”, wrote a Tiktoker in the text of his video, which presented a clip of the film. The video has been seen 1.1 million times.
Another Tiktoker classified the “rudest moments” of the film, including the reaction of Ice Cube to the son of his character dying.
A Tiktoker even passed Ice Cube, recording himself dressed as he and reciting movie lines.
Some spectators have also criticized the placement of the movie’s Amazon products, including scenes that have a main air delivery drone and a character that receives a $ 1,000 Amazon gift card.
Vetz, a YouTube channel that classifies and reviews films, cited the placement of the product as one of the main reasons why the film is located in its 10 worst films on the 2025 list.
“The worst placement of products I have seen in my life,” said Joel, a channel reviewer, which has 261,000 subscribers.
In the popular trackboxd films tracking platform, the film averaged only 1 star of the approximately 90,000 people who registered the VIO.
“A 90 -minute commercial for a Amazon service that will never leave the pilot stage,” a user wrote. “Incredible things. Just a movie. Highly recommended.”
