Plot: A computer security analyst working for the U.S. government finds his daily life disrupted by an alien attack. Accustomed to dealing with virtual threats, his struggle extends to secrets the government may be hiding.
This remade was a total Disaster.
Pros: The premise can be promising having it all done in screen life technology. Iman Benson & Henry Hunter Hall the ones that played his kids were fine & I did feel for some of drama happening going on in the movie.
Cons: Ice Cube is totally recast & terrible in everyway. The motivations for the aliens for what they doing is ridiculous. I didn’t like the effects and the dialogue. It felt like a huge amazon advertisement with the amount they mentioned amazon. I didn’t appreciate how they used the government as the main bad guys of the movie. and the twist didn’t felt organic or didn’t work for me.
This was the worst adaptation I ever seen.
Genre: Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Directed by Rich Lee
Screenplay by Kenneth A. Golde, Marc Hyman
Story by Kenneth A. Golde
Based on War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Produced by Patrick Aiello, Timur Bekmambetov
Starring: Ice Cube, Eva Longoria, Clark Gregg, Iman Benson, Henry Hunter Hall, Devon Bostick, Michael O’Neill & Andrea Savage.
Cinematography: Christopher Probst
Edited by Charles Ancelle, Jake York
Music by Jon Natchez
Production companies: Bazelevs Company, Patrick Aiello Productions
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Cast:
- Ice Cube as Will Radford, a surveillance and threat assessment expert at the Department of Homeland Security
- Eva Longoria as Dr. Sandra Salas, Will’s friend who works at NASA
- Clark Gregg as Donald Briggs, Director of the Department of Homeland Security
- Andrea Savage as Sheila Jeffries, FBI Agent
- Henry Hunter Hall as Dave Radford, Will’s son, a video gamer and hacker known as Disruptor
- Iman Benson as Faith Radford, Will’s daughter, a biomedical researcher who is pregnant
- Devon Bostick as Mark Goodman, Faith’s boyfriend, Amazon delivery driver
- Michael O’Neill as Walter Crystal, United States Secretary of Defense
- Jim Meskimen as the President of the United States
I worse skip this movie.
Rating 1 out of 5 Stars
Ryan Balkwill:
Resident film reviewer,
Level Best Art Cafe