{"id":47256,"date":"2025-08-06T07:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T07:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/47256\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T07:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T07:13:12","slug":"ice-cubes-war-of-the-worlds-has-0-rating-on-rotten-tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/47256\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Cube’s ‘War of the Worlds’ Has 0% Rating on ‘Rotten Tomatoes’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIce Cube<\/a>\u2018s latest movie is off to a slow start on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>. According to 15 critics (and counting), War of the Worlds<\/a> so far has a zero percent rating on the Tomatometer scale, while thousands of moviegoers have given it at 14 percent rating on the Popcornmeter.<\/p>\n

\n\tOne review in particular, from Variety<\/a>\u2018s Peter Debruge knocked the film for essentially doubling as a commercial for Amazon, writing, \u201cEven with a Prime subscription, you have to sit through two minutes of ads to watch 90 more of what amounts to a feature-length commercial for all things Amazon,\u201d while another from The Telegraph<\/a>\u2018s Ed Power wasn\u2019t really into all the screen time Cube got, saying, \u201cIt is silly, shoddy and features far too much of rapper-turned-leading man Ice Cube staring at a computer screen while looking as if he\u2019s working through a reasonably urgent digestive ailment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAn adaptation of H. G. Wells\u2019 classic 1898 novel The War of the Worlds, this version is an Amazon Prime production directed by Rich Lee and also starring Eva Longoria. Cube plays Will Radford, a surveillance expert at the Department of Homeland Security, and most of the movie takes place on his computer screen as he deals with a hacker and an alien invasion while trying to keep his family out of harm\u2019s way.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe synopsis on Prime Video reads as follows: \u201cA gargantuan invasion is coming with this fresh take on the legendary novel of the same name. Renowned actress Eva Longoria is joined by iconic rapper and actor Ice Cube, along with Michael O\u2019Neill and Iman Benson, for a thrilling out-of-this-world adventure that is filled with present-day themes of technology, surveillance, and privacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCube\u2019s son, actor O\u2019Shea Jackson Jr., replied to a tweet on X<\/a> of a video clip from the movie in which an Amazon Prime delivery person tells Cube\u2019s character to cop a USB from Amazon, so he can deliver it via Prime Air with a drone. \u201cI truly can\u2019t believe this adaptation of War Of The Worlds is actually a real film with a real budget and Ice Cube is actually in it,\u201d a fan posted, with Jackson replying that the movie was \u201cShot during the pandemic. Released 5 years later.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shot during the pandemic. Released 5 years later.<\/p>\n

\u2014 O\u2019Shea Jackson Jr (@OsheaJacksonJr) August 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tBillboard has reached out to Ice Cube\u2019s team for comment.<\/p>\n

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