- Starring
- Ice Cube, Eva Longoria, Iman Benson
- Director
- Rich Lee
- Rating
- PG-13
- Genre
- Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- Release date
- July 30, 2025
- Where to watch
- Prime Video
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In Amazon Prime’s 2025 War of the Worlds, Ice Cube plays Will Radford, a DHS cyber-security analyst thrust into a high-stakes battle against a mysterious alien invasion. As chaos unfolds, Will uses his tech expertise to uncover the threat, navigating a world of advanced surveillance and hidden truths, all while protecting his family and fighting to save humanity.
War of the Worlds (2025) REVIEW
War of the Worlds (2025) Review›
There is no way to adequately convey with words how bad this movie is. You have to watch it yourself to see.
So, here's a drinking game to help you get through it.
Ice Cube’s War of the Worlds (2025) Drinking Game›
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James Carrick is a passionate film enthusiast with a degree in theater and philosophy. James approaches dramatic criticism from a philosophic foundation grounded in aesthetics and ethics, offering insight and analysis that reveals layers of cinematic narrative with a touch of irreverence and a dash of snark.
Almost have to see it to believe it, eh? I don’t drink booze but maybe we can use energy drinks or something similar. Thanks for the fun game idea!
Watch it. If you use energy drinks, you may not sleep for a week.
Hemingway couldn’t describe it.
So, essentially, it’s a 90-minute commercial for Amazon, and the product they’re trying to sell is more screen time?
Are there at least any moments where tripods or flying saucers blast things and commit massive amounts of property damage, aliens kidnap and feed off the humans, or the invasion is inexplicably halted when the aliens start dying because humans are too dirty for them to eat? I might want to root for the alien monsters.
The aliens eat “data.”
100% of the film is Ice Cube watching and reacting to drone footage and hacked cameras via his NSA computer. Of course there are tripods wreaking havoc. In one of the more action packed sequences, Cube even makes a powerpoint presentation of them to Zoom to the president.
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