{"id":50443,"date":"2025-08-07T13:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/50443\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T13:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:57:09","slug":"ice-cubes-war-of-the-worlds-scores-rare-0-percent-rotten-tomatoes-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/50443\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Cube’s War Of The Worlds scores rare 0 percent Rotten Tomatoes score"},"content":{"rendered":"

Entering a rarefied strata previously occupied only by films like Gotti,\u00a0Problem Child, and\u00a0Police Academy 4: Citizens On Patrol, Ice Cube\u2019s new sci-fi movie\/Amazon commercial War Of The Worlds has achieved that rarest of things: Consensus. Specifically, the bad kind, as the new \u201cscreenlife\u201d film has just achieved a rare<\/a> 0 percent fresh rating on film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Now, admittedly, the new movie\u2014directed by music video guy Rich Lee, and starring an extremely sleepy-seeming Ice Cube as a Homeland Security officer who tries to stop an alien invasion from the comfort of his laptop\u2014is only rolling with 20 reviews tallied at this point. (That puts it well below other \u201c0 percent\u201d luminaries like Adam Sandler\u2019s The Ridiculous 6<\/a>\u201436 reviews\u2014or the all-time record holder, Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever<\/a>, which brought together an incredible 118 critics in a shared chorus of hate back in 2002.) But it does seem like War has potential to grow, especially as social media has been having a field day mocking the film lately, partially for how much of it seems to be occupied by Ice Cube looking quizzically into a webcam, and most especially for its brand integration with producer Amazon<\/a>: It took artistic bravery, we\u2019d argue, to have the fate of the world hinge on an Amazon drone delivery (complete with showing Cube\u2019s character type the retail juggernaut\u2019s name into his search bar), and then extra-special super bravery to have the characters bribe a houseless guy to risk his life to help them with a $1,000 Amazon gift card.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, just about every review surveyed by\u00a0RT acknowledges that the film\u00a0could, hypothetically be good, were it not burdened by lousy acting, a largely incoherent script, and the looming feeling of Jeff Bezos breathing down its neck. There have, after all, been several very good movies that have used the \u201cscreenlife\u201d concept for both thrills and alternative storytelling; this just isn\u2019t one of them\u2014and you very much don\u2019t have to take our word for it.<\/p>\n

Kevin Hart and Ice Cube both respond to that fiery Katt Williams interview<\/a>Ice Cube still very mad about that movie he lost because he wouldn’t get the COVID vaccine<\/a><\/p>\n

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