Overview

• The film debuted on July 30 with a 0% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes and has since climbed to about 3–4%, while audience ratings remain in the low-to-mid-20s.
• Rotten Tomatoes ranked the adaptation at number 88 on its list of the 100 worst movies of all time after aggregating overwhelmingly negative reviews.
• Despite critical drubbing, it surged to the top of Prime Video’s global streaming charts, driven largely by viewers tuning in to mock or “hate-watch” the film.
• Reviewers singled out its heavy Amazon product placement and criticized the screenlife approach for exposing weak narrative structure, continuity errors and subpar visual effects.
• Producers defend the format as a modern spin on Orson Welles’ original broadcast, but debate continues over whether screenlife techniques suit large-scale sci-fi storytelling.