War of the Worlds
Will Radford is a top analyst for Homeland Security who tracks potential threats 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.
Critics Sentiment
Meteors begin striking the planet before machines emerge from meteorites
Will and Dave's team plant a virus that fails to stop aliens
The film's sentiment crashes from the meteor strike sequence to the conspiracy revelation, dropping 1.6 points as plot holes became insurmountable.
War of the Worlds maintains consistently low sentiment throughout, with reviewers finding the screenlife format tedious and the plot nonsensical. The film briefly peaks during the initial alien arrival but quickly deteriorates as technical incompetence and plot holes overwhelm any remaining goodwill. Even the Amazon product placement ending fails to provide unintentional comedy relief for most critics.
Full cast
Ice Cube
William Radford
Eva Longoria
NASA Scientist Sandra Salas
Clark Gregg
NSA Director Donald Briggs
Iman Benson
Faith Radford
Henry Hunter Hall
David Radford
Devon Bostick
Mark Goodman
Andrea Savage
FBI Field Agent Sheila Jeffries
Nicole Pulliam
News Reporter
Michael O'Neill
Secretary of Defense Walter Crystal
Jim Meskimen
POTUS
Crew
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