War of the Worlds fails to fulfill its potential as a modern adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic novel. Intended to utilize found footage and documentary-style elements, the film instead devolves into an incoherent experience resembling a corporate video. With a lack of genuine engagement, performers present an absurd script that detracts from the storytelling. The plot starts unconvincingly with Ice Cube's character analyzing surveillance feeds in a mundane manner, showcasing the film's struggle with reality and agency amidst a supposed impending catastrophe.
Amazon Prime's latest movie could so easily have been a modern take on H.G. Wells' all-time classic novel, employing found footage and gonzo documentary-style reporting to revive the spirit of Orson Welles' notorious 1938 radio production of the story.
Instead, what we have here looks like an in-house corporate video, complete with perfectly lit footage of perfectly made up people, slickly delivering Amazon commercials in between the potential end of the world, with the most atrocious script you could ever imagine.
The immediately credulous plot begins as government worker Ice Cube sits in front of his monitor for a day's...staring at of the surveillance camera feeds in central DC?
It's levels of improbable nonsense, but performed by a bored man sipping coffee, flitting across an entire city as if the.
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