According to a marketing formula, bad buzz is still buzz. To say evil of a film is always to talk about it. Within an extremely competitive sector, productions are raining on the big screen or on SVOD services. And let’s be honest, in the lot, only a minority manages to obtain a little advertising. So even if it is bad, it remains more than friends and it can allow you to stand out. It is not Under the seine from Netflix who will say the opposite.
The proof with The War of the Worlds 2025, new adaptation of the work of Hg Wells produced by Universal and arriving Directly on Prime Video. A feature film that was talked about as soon as it was released a few days ago for having succeeded in obtaining a beautiful 0% positive opinion press on the aggregating site Rotten Tomatoes. A score that allows him to be placed in the prestigious classification of Worse films of the year 2025 (and not only), even the worst.
From, The film has become viralgiving birth to a multitude of memes and mocked extracts on the networks. Result, this War Of The Worlds is currently One of the most viewed programs on the streaming platformproving that the « hate-watching » (Action to look at a work to be able to say evil) is a strategy like any other as long as it works. Although his note Rotten Tomatoes Be back up to an exceptional 4% of the press of the press and 20% of the public, our desire to judge on piece was finally too strong. Sorry.
The synopsis of the War of the Worlds
If you have not read this masterpiece of literature or that you missed the 5646 adaptations, including that, formidable, of a certain Steven Spielberg, The War of the Worlds tell the invasion of the earth by extraterrestrials.
In this new version, we follow Will Radford (Ice Cube)cybersecurity analyst within internal security, whose work is to permanently monitor the American territory and to identify threats. When an attack from the sky strikes the whole world and begins to invade the streets, Will and his family will discover thatA national lie could be the cause.
It was not my war …
Let’s not spit immediately in the soup. On paper, the concept of this umpteenth project held the road. At a time when we spend most of our time in front of a screen, the director of musical clips Rich Lee transposes the work through the Will Radford screen alone. An alien invasion experienced by the only prism of imagesnot only is the idea quite innovative and current, but it echoes the legendary radio hoax of Orson Welles. In other hands, we could have held something good.
Nothing is fine. From the first minutes, the scenario already accumulates A name d’CoCherences Record And the most mean – of which we are a part – will say that Caster Ice Cube as a government analyst is a beautiful one. No wonder the head of the actor everywhere on the networks so much His only on stage is a festival of overjection and facobeque -mimics.
The other actors are not to be outdone since we will be entitled to two types of interpretations : pretend to be afraid and run the phone fixed on the face, and the Olympian calm while everything explodes around. To believe that the whole cast knew that the project felt feet and that the world is divided into two categories: Those who decided to laugh by pretending to play the game and those who just wanted to touch a check. A little thought for this poor Eva Longoria, twice mistreated on Prime Video in less than a week.
The list of problems is very, very long. The Lack of obvious budget offers us inlays worthy of a PlayStation 3 video game kinematics. Lee, with his experience in the clip, performs the feature film in the same way with an assembly of accelerated images and a camera that gestures unnecessarily To give an impression of movement.
Amazon, our Savior (if you have the premium delivery)
In terms of strict adaptation, this War Of the Worlds is the equivalent of a back cover reading. Wells’ words were absolutely not understood And Lee especially needed an alien invasion for his project. And since the title remains a seller, no reason to deprive oneself, left to Maltrate the original work well. In reality, the film prefers to play the card of the used conspiracy with big strings and There is only the ridiculous of the object to save us from a conspiratorial excitementand of a certain audience.
A story that never spares us, accumulating huge coincidences and incredible shortcuts. And it’s not even the worst. No, The worst remains this beautiful advertisement for Amazonwhose services can help save the world. A cheeky product placement in a film that already had a good package. Note, to the point where we were, we could not be surprised anymore …
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SO Does this World war Ice Cube version is the worst film of 2025? We still lack perspective to be able to award our winner, especially since the competition is tough and that there are still several months at dark rooms and streaming platforms to reveal new competitors. One thing is certain: It should be very well positioned during the final ranking.
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