Warning: This review contains Strong Languages. Readers discretion is advised.
Anthony (me): (hold my phone from the call) So let me get the straight, after I watched and make a review on K-Pop Demon Hunters, you’re demanding me to watching Amazon’s War of the Worlds?
Corporate Driver: Yes, I know you’ve heard about this movie, but im disgusted that you’ve never even watching it! I want to watch this movie Immediately, or I will putting your stupid ass accounts into bidding that someone will buy your accounts without your own control…!
Anthony: Y-You want to me watch it or il lose the control via bribery??
Corporate Driver: No, its not “bribery”, its Bidding Takeover, Captain “Genius”…! Either do it, or get shat on!
Anthony: No, I need my stuff to share, talk to my friends, save my--
Corporate Driver: NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR GARBAGE, DO IT OR GET FUCKED!!
Anthony: Jesus Christ…! ‘Kay, fine…! Il watch this to save my ass, okay? Bye…! (hang up) Okay, thanks to subscribing Amazon, im planning to watch this, despite I’ve heard the negative review…
A FEW MOMENTS LATER
Anthony: MOTHERF--
(Review Begins)
You know, I’ve never done a couple of reviews on movies from streaming platforms like Netflix (though used to after I canceled the subscription), Disney+, Amazon and Crave (the latter is only in Canada that I live), I think its safe to say that its not easy to find some good movies I can watch nor review them, even its a tough decision if we stay subscribe or cancel some. I mean, sure we do have couple of good contents in specific platforms, but as we always said, no one’s perfect when we have some are very, very very bad…
From months ago, I covered Happy Gilmore 2, which I considered to be the worst movie in 2025 that I’ve ever watched, but alas, I take it back when I watched this movie on Amazon Prime Video, the one that its somehow EVEN WORSE than we thought… Which happens to be Amazon’s take on War of the Worlds.
This movie in question is a 2025 screenlife sci-fi film that was directed by Rich Lee, produced by Patrick Aiello, and Timur Bekmambetov, and written by Kenneth A. Golde, and Marc Hyman.
If the title may or may not sounds familiar, this one happens to be an adaptation from H.G. Wells’s classic novel from 1898. Its a story that became an inspiration from many authors and even filmmakers that he created the story of alien invasions and the rest, as they say, was history. We’ve seen plenty of adaptations of War of the Worlds that they’re trying to be something faithful, changing but faithful or going completely standard alien invasion with slapping with the name on it. Sure, you have George Pal’s take from 1953 that became a sci-fi classic and of course, there’s the Steven Spielberg version from 2005 (along with two more War of the Worlds came out, but as direct-to-DVD unlike the Spielberg version). But when it comes to this… Where do I begin?
When it comes to the story, it tells about DHS officer, Will Radford, arrived to do his mass surveillance business to monitoring every people on Earth for… Lets say, peace from the crimes, mainly due to he, and the FBI, are finding to hunt down a hacker called “Disruptor”, while at the same time, he had a hard time to get along with pregnant daughter Faith and his son David due to his constant working on monitor, especially they don’t like for being watched and being punished at. But then, after witnessing a large storm (or should I say, using bunch of stock footages), a meteors coming down to crash landing everywhere on Earth, which turned out to be like giant capsules to unleash those tripods to going on rampage around the world.
It sounds like a standard alien invasion story, you think that this is gonna be the more modern take on War of the Worlds with new technologies that we can fight aliens, right? But this isn’t what it feels like…! Oh god, this one is NOT like the H.G. Wells’s story. Many elements of Wells’s story is pretty much thrown out of windows that its all about alien machines coming down for, rather than wiping out humanity, here they’re breaking into data centers to harvesting datas for… Attraction operation for… God knows how…! I mean, I get they’re trying to make something new for the plot about alien invasion, but good Fucking god, the whole plot and the writing is a broken down mess from stupidity that I have a hard time to either learning nor even finding any single reference from H.G. Wells’s plot elements. But NO, there’s not EVERY SINGLE elements nor even redeeming quality for this movie that I couldn’t find something to give credit nor anything for that matter! I get this movie is trying to give us the message about anti-surveillance message, but again, its badly executed is that this movie is supposed to be called “War of the Worlds”!! It just baffled me that they just dismissed the title nor the elements what we all know…!
But it wasn’t just the stupid plot we have in this movie, its the way how this movie is made. As you can see, this movie is done on Screenlife, its basically a movie shown from either computer, tablets, phones or other devices. It plays almost and feels like found footage based on either a situation has been recorded before it was discovered, but Screenlife can also play on its own than a lost footage films. I just want to say, after learning about this, I’ve nothing against it, I think its a nice concept that its like a new type of found footage films whether be in the aforementioned eventful footage been found or in the middle of video chat in the middle of something fun or chaotic. But when it comes to this movie, they went for the latter, but good lord this could possibly be the worst way how to film on Screenlife to see how cheap and ridiculous how they pulled or made in desktop or even via video chat, especially the editing looks and feels something out of YouTube from either the dramatic zoom or even edit pan in from dramatic music, like… Jesus, this is exaggerating how they pulled…!
But you want to know why this movie is made on Screenlife? Well, it was developed on September of 2020, yeah, it was developed in the middle of Pandemic when we got hit by COVID, especially when Screenlife movies became common thanks to the popularity in 2010s, il give credit what they wanted, but the problem is that its not a good idea to developing a movie in the middle of pandemic, especially when the producer, Timur Bekmambetov, wanting to be big budgeted Screenlife movie, despite he described it as a mixture of commercial and the budget focus on thriller, basically, its a low-budget Screenlife film with the focus on thriller and commercial? Which I think it explains why this movie has an obvious product placement with Amazon (the same company who distribute it, and boy im pretty sure Amazon must be so proud for both distribution and product placement) and trying to give us the action scenes, a very lacking there of.
Speaking of the latter, I found out the production of this movie were lasted 15 Days for filming via phones, PCs and tablets, while the post production takes… 2 Years?! Like, are you Fucking kidding me?! They took a rushed job of production and the post-production takes 2 years after the filming?! What kind of excuse was that to filming in isolation and shitty rushed job on this?! I mean, I get they started development back when COVID impacted the whole world, but come on!! Couldn’t they just wait before you’re ready!? But don’t even get me started about the action scenes and the effects, cause good god, this is so bad that its both funny and eye sore!! At first, the tripods look okay on paper, but the final result when done in CGI, good god, it looks awful with a very bad quality that it looks like a generation of PS2 or GameCube, especially when there’s some shot where one of tripods looked away, but instead of slowly, it just swooped quickly like a second! This is so bad that it looks like a bugging mess! But of course, if you’re expecting martians of this movie? Well too bad, all we have is a very minimal showcase of aliens like tentacles from tripods or even those miniature alien robot with a bit of organism for… Whatever the Fuck reasons! Not to mention, we barely get to see the action scenes, all we have is the news report about tripods going on rampage and using stock footage of people running away, the military, the weather storm and borrowing pictures, absolute shameless that it shows how they’re using stock footage like a B-roll, this is like they wanted to make a mockumentary. But again, this is supposed to be a War of the Worlds movie, so this is what they gave us?? Wow, what a fucking piece of shit and hopeless how they executed…!!
But don’t expect me to think nor describing the characters, they’re not as enjoyable nor likable in this movie, not even hiving big names like Ice Cube, Eva Longoria and Clark Gregg couldn’t save themselves for this fucking mess…! You have Will Radford is a workaholic father in DHS, Sandra Salas is Will’s friend and part of NASA, Donald Briggs is a strict director of DHS, Faith is a biomedical researcher and David is a trouble maker who likes to spending money and time to play video games, and Mark is an Amazon delivery man and Faith’s boyfriend. Especially some of their acting are just… Questionably bad, especially with Ice Cube. I mean, I’ve nothing against Ice Cube, I think he’s good to be in hood movies or even some comedy movies, whether be on Friday, “Are We There Yet?” and 21st Jump Street, but this one?? This is quite possibly the worst casting choice to be in a non-comedy film…! As for the rest of the casts, again these guys deserve better than being involve from this cesspool of Shitfest…!
Good god…! In the end, this is EASILY the WORST movie I’ve ever seen since my experience on either the aforementioned Happy Gilmore 2 or even the godawful TTG movie…! With poorly executed story, the writing is a Clusterfuck, the production is a rushed job, the effect looks like a 2000s video game graphic, the movie looks nothing like a H.G Wells’s classic story, because they they threw Shit on the title, the characters are either one dimensional and dumb and the acting are possibly the most embarrassing along with, again actors deserve better than this Fucking Shit!!
God, this is not only the worst movie I’ve ever seen, but its also the worst wasting space movie to be released on Amazon Prime Video! I don’t know what were they thinking how they think that this is okay to be in their streaming platform?! I mean, it would’ve been okay if its on YouTube or direct-to-video movie, but no, they put it on streaming platform like Amazon for stupid excuse to having big names, product placement and a tease to putting a bold name like War of the Worlds!!
If you guys wanting to see an alien invasion stories or something on Amazon, do yourselves a favor and stay away from this abomination! They should be ashamed of themselves for this final result for wasting their time and money for this shit…!
I usually don’t make a rating in my Mini Review. But with this one, il make an exception, im not gonna give a number rating, but its no stranger that this movie definitely earned the Dumpster Fire of FAILURE!
Okay… Now its done with this embarrassment… That’s all there’s is for my mini review, tell me what you think in the comments bellow.
Thanks for reading, and im Anthony, signing out.
(Review Ends)
Anthony: (pull out my phone for calling Corporate Driver) Gotta tell him what I’ve done…!
Corporate Driver (on phone): Oh hey, its you again, Anthony, are you done?
Anthony: There, NOW I made a review of this Piece of Shit, happy now?!
Corporate Driver: (chuckles) Ohhh, you’re must be both exhausted from anger over this movie, do you have a good time after watching this--
Anthony: Look, I don’t give a Flying Shit of you gawking on me having a short fuse, I just finished my review for you to give my thoughts on this, okay?! Besides, its been a years we never got ourselves confrontation story in the middle of review…!
Corporate Driver: Oh yeah, its been… Almost a decade before the “you-know-what” in 2020, which im like… Pretty busy on my own stuff to make money on my business.
Anthony: Okay, but what kind of business and where are the money you made?
Corporate Driver: Well um… My corporation headquarter for investment.
Anthony: Okay, but how do you invest for torturing me?
Corporate Driver: Uhhh… Thanks for the review bye! (hungs up)
Anthony: (groan) All for nothing what he gave me…!
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