Ice Cube‘s intergalactic realm film is off to a gradual begin on evaluation aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Based on 15 critics (and counting), War of the Worlds thus far has a zero p.c ranking on the Tomatometer scale, whereas hundreds of moviegoers have given it at 14 p.c ranking on the Popcornmeter.
One evaluation particularly, from Variety‘s Peter Debruge knocked the movie for primarily doubling as a business for Amazon, writing, “Even with a Prime subscription, you need to sit by two minutes of advertisements to observe 90 extra of what quantities to a feature-length business for all issues Amazon,” whereas one other from The Telegraph‘s Ed Energy wasn’t actually into all of the display screen time Dice acquired, saying, “It’s foolish, shoddy and options far an excessive amount of of rapper-turned-leading man Ice Dice watching a pc display screen whereas wanting as if he’s working by a fairly pressing digestive ailment.”
An adaptation of H. G. Wells’ basic 1898 novel The Conflict of the Worlds, this model is an Amazon Prime manufacturing directed by Wealthy Lee and in addition starring Eva Longoria. Dice performs Will Radford, a surveillance knowledgeable on the Division of Homeland Safety, and many of the film takes place on his pc display screen as he offers with a hacker and an alien invasion whereas attempting to maintain his household out of hurt’s approach.
The synopsis on Prime Video reads as follows: “A gargantuan invasion is coming with this recent tackle the legendary novel of the identical title. Famend actress Eva Longoria is joined by iconic rapper and actor Ice Dice, together with Michael O’Neill and Iman Benson, for an exhilarating out-of-this-world journey that’s full of present-day themes of expertise, surveillance, and privateness.”
Dice’s son, actor O’Shea Jackson Jr., replied to a tweet on X of a video clip from the film through which an Amazon Prime supply particular person tells Dice’s character to cop a USB from Amazon, so he can ship it by way of Prime Air with a drone. “I really can’t consider this adaptation of Conflict Of The Worlds is definitely an actual movie with an actual finances and Ice Dice is definitely in it,” a fan posted, with Jackson replying that the film was “Shot throughout the pandemic. Launched 5 years later.”
Billboard has reached out to Ice Dice’s group for remark.