The aliens aren’t the only thing crashing to Earth.

The 2025 remake of The War of the Worlds has done what few films dare: It bombed so hard it left a crater.

Starring Ice Cube and Eva Longoria, and directed by music video veteran Rich Lee, this Prime Video adaptation of H.G. Wells’ classic is less a movie and more a two-hour dare.

It currently holds a zero percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Not “near zero.” Not “mixed reviews.” Zero. A cinematic void. Even The Emoji Movie—the former gold standard of animated regret—managed to scrape together six percent.

This? Nothing. Not one critic offered a defense. Not even a “meh” or pity thumb.

The Metacritic user score? 1.8. That’s barely above the number of brain cells the script seems to think we have.

Announced five years ago as a “gritty urban reboot,” the film was hyped as a grounded, street-level take on alien invasion.

What we got instead was a sluggish, half-rendered CGI slog with dialogue that sounds AI-generated and performances that feel more like community service than acting.

Ice Cube, playing what appears to be a former cop/freedom fighter/granddad with access to rocket launchers, mostly mutters through scenes like he’s trying to remember why he signed on. Eva Longoria, criminally underused, spends most of her screen time yelling vague warnings into a walkie-talkie.

The aliens are there, technically, but they move like rejected PlayStation 2 assets and make less narrative impact than a missed Amazon delivery.

It’s not even fun-bad. It’s just bad-bad. The action scenes are limp, the pacing is glacial, and the script thinks suspense means cutting to black for a second. You could call it a missed opportunity, but that implies there was ever a chance.

There’s a scene where Cube yells “We fight together!” while looking directly at a green screen. The only thing he’s fighting is irrelevance.

And yet, Prime Video proudly released it anyway, like a parent putting a failing report card on the fridge.

Because nothing says “end of the world” quite like watching one of rap’s great storytellers get out-acted by a digital tentacle.