War of the Worlds

Probably not the War of the Worlds adaptation you’re thinking of. This one involves Ice Cube just sitting at a desk. Eva Longoria also sits at a desk.
I can see why this got made in the pandemic, everything unfolds on a screen and via video call. Why it got released in 2025 I cannot explain, it’s like a side project someone did for fun, not meant for public consumption.
It’s about aliens but also it’s about government surveillance and excessive data capture. Because I shit you not, the aliens in this are ‘attracted to data’ and are hoovering it up like mad. Don’t worry dear reader I also don’t know what this means. If you start just writing ones and zeroes on a napkin do they come for you?
There is a fragment of a good idea here - a man who spends his life at his desk has to sit and watch the world get attacked on his screen - but the film almost goes out of its way to avoid engaging with its central conceit.
Like most so bad it’s good stuff it’s mostly just very dull. However I have to say the completely-set-in-a-computer premise here does elevate this from ‘total shit’ to ‘baffling shit’.