Overview

• Premiering July 30, the screenlife-format adaptation shot entirely through device interfaces has rapidly climbed to #1 on Amazon Prime Video.
• Critics have universally panned the film, resulting in a 0% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes based on 15 reviews.
• Viewers have echoed the backlash with an approximate 14% audience rating gathered from over a thousand submissions.
• Reviewers fault the thin narrative and unabashed Amazon product placement, characterizing the film as a feature-length advertisement.
• Shot during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and delayed for five years, the remake reframes Wells’ story around modern surveillance and data fears.