War of the Worlds

Name: War of the Worlds
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller, Horror
Released: July 30, 2025
Duration: 145 min
Rating: 6

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Universal Pictures | Release Date (Streaming): July 30, 2025 | PG-13

Summary: Will Radford (Ice Cube) is a top cyber-security analyst tracks potential threats to national security through a mass surveillance program, until one day an attack by an unknown entity leads him to question whether the government is hiding something from him . . . and from the rest of the world.

Genre(s): Adventure, Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller, Horror

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 145 min

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Peter Debruge

Jul 31, 2025

When it comes to customer satisfaction, does Amazon’s refund policy apply to stuff like this? Read full review

The Telegraph Ed Power

Jul 31, 2025

It is silly, shoddy and features far too much of rapper-turned-leading man Ice Cube staring at a computer screen while looking as if he’s working through a reasonably urgent digestive ailment. Like a heat-ray in reverse, it leeches all the fun out of what should be an epic tale of alien invasion. Read full review

Empire Ian Freer

Aug 5, 2025

A risible attempt to modernise classic science-fiction by adding WhatsApp and political chicanery. This thin, frenetic, soulless adaptation is misguided moviemaking cubed. Read full review

Polygon Matt Patches

Aug 12, 2025

The only redeeming quality: Ice Cube now has a place on Mount Razziemore in a movie I can only hope earns its own Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode. Read full review

David Fear

Aug 12, 2025

This War of the Worlds isn’t bad or even so-bad-it’s-good. It’s a secret third thing, a hodgepodge of shoddy CGI and dead-eyed reaction shots from Ice Cube that make you feel like you can identify individual brain cells mid-death cycle. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Aug 11, 2025

Give me a silly movie that knows it’s dumb on a hot summer day every year. This isn’t that. It’s so much dumber than it thinks it is. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Aug 13, 2025

War of the Worlds is bad, almost laugh-out-loud bad, and that “almost” is the killer here. Read full review

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