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Amazon Prime’s Screenlife 'War of the Worlds' Hits 0% on Rotten Tomatoes

The adaptation tops Prime Video charts as viewers mock its screen-based storytelling, heavy Amazon branding, incoherent narrative.

Overview

  • The Ice Cube-led adaptation holds a 0% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes and a 14% audience rating.
  • Reviewers have branded the film “hilariously awful” and “generationally bad,” pointing to low-budget effects and disjointed scenes.
  • Variety’s Peter Debruge described it as a “feature-length commercial” for Amazon services due to overt product placement.
  • The movie remained in Prime Video’s top three streaming titles from July 31 to August 3 thanks to hate-watch viewership.
  • O’Shea Jackson Jr. noted the film was shot during the pandemic and shelved for five years before its late-July release.