150 Word Review: 'War of the Worlds' (2025)
"It's the future of delivery!"
Opinions are subjective, but this Amazon Prime adaptation of HG Wells' classic sci-fi alien invasion tale is objectively awful, an 89-minute-long Amazon Prime commercial that only a tech CEO could love.
One has to imagine the pitch meeting went like this: "Mr. Bezos, sir, first of all, War of the Worlds is public domain IP. Second, one of the heroes is an Amazon Prime deliveryman. And third, he uses an Amazon Prime Air to save the day." (All of those things are true.)
Ice Cube stars as a government computer expert who spends the entire invasion dramatically tapping away on a computer keyboard while watching the action unfold via CCTV and drone cams. Cube scowls well, so that's a positive. There is never a scene where two people talk face-to-face; everything is video chat.
"One other thing, Mr. Bezos, the movie is going to be cheap!" And look cheap, too.