Is ‘War of the Worlds’ the worst movie of 2025?
He has an epic title, a star of big name as manager and a large studio behind.
But since its release on the main video of Amazon on July 25, “War of the Worlds” has become a bust of notes of all time.
The new adaptation of HG Wells’ book was classified as one of the worst films of all time by the site of the revision aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.
The film features Ice Cube as the expert in internal security surveillance and the evaluation of the threats Will Radford, who uses government technology to spy on, and later, his children in the midst of an extraterrestrial invasion in progress. Radford is at his office in the entire film, watching events take place in front of him on a computer screen.
Eva Longoria, Michael O’Neill, Olivia Delaurentis and Clark Gregg also play in the film, directed by Rich Lee.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the science fiction film has a rating of 3% on the “Tomatometer”, which follows criticism from criticism, and 21% on the “popcornmeter”, which follows public criticism.
The list of “worst films” by Rotten Tomatoes is classified “War of the Worlds” 88th. The 2002 science fiction thriller “”Ballistic: Ecks against Sever “is n ° 1. The only other title of 2025 to make the list is” Alarum “by Sylvester Stallone.
Only one criticism, Jordan Hoffman of Entertainment Weekly, gave “War of the Worlds” a new ranking, a certified writing, “it’s certainly stupid, but it is also very fun”.
Most of the others described the film as the worst vision of the Wells novel of 1898 on the Martians invading the earth. The previous adaptations include the CBS radio broadcast led by Orson Welles in 1938, a 1953 Technicolor film by Gene Barry and the film by Steven Spielberg in 2005, which featured Tom Cruise.
Lee “mouth the parabola of classic science fiction on colonialist evils of humanity and creates an odiously dull and completely brain exercise (assistant bootleg) in the propaganda of the capitalist and surveillance state,” wrote a rotten critic.
Some online noted that they felt like the slogan of the film – which is “worse than you think” – is an appropriate way to summarize their reactions to the film itself.
Lee and the cast did not publicly address the reaction.
Neither Universal Pictures, who produced the film, nor the Amazon studios, which distributed it, responded to requests for comments. (Universal Pictures is a division of the parent company of NBC News, NBC Universal.)
But as with some other films that receive bad criticisms, the reaction to “War of the Worlds” also made it buzzing.
Many viewers have transformed the reactions of Ice Cube in various scenes into memes and gifs.
The film has solidified a place in the online database Know Your Even.
The website attributes the increase in online traction to an article on July 21 on X of the user “Pooroldrolotony”, which shared a clip for the film. The user wrote: “The war of the worlds (2025) is the worst adaptation of the source material to date. He had no idea beyond the approach of the images found. ” The position had been viewed 1.9 million times on Tuesday.
Tiktok and X users have also continued to make fun of the theater, dialogue, hacking of simplified devices and heavy messages on mass government surveillance and conspiracy theories.
“It looks like Ice Cube reads directly from a script that he had never seen before …”, wrote a tiktker in the text of their video, which presented a clip for the film. The video has been viewed 1.1 million times.
Another Tiktker ranked the “most creaky moments” in the film, including the reaction of Ice Cube to the son of his character dying.
A tiktker even imitated Ice Cube, registering dressed by him and reciting lines of the film.
Some viewers have also criticized the film’s placement of Amazon products, including scenes that include a first-rate air delivery drone and a character receiving an Amazon gift card of $ 1,000.
Vetz, a YouTube channel that classifies and examines films, cited the placement of products as one of the main reasons for which the film ranks on its 10 worst films on the 2025 list.
“The worst placement of products that I have ever seen in my life,” said Joel, a chain critic, who has 261,000 subscribers.
On the monitoring platform of the popular film Letterboxd, the film did not succeed at only 1 star of the approximately 90,000 people who registered after watching it.
“A 90 -minute advertisement for an Amazon service that will never leave the pilot scene,” wrote a user. “Incredible things. Barely a film. Highly recommended.”
