I made it 10min, once he started “hacking” teamvewer with a generated master password I GTFO. They tried real hard to make it realistic by having real software and apps but it’s bad, really bad.
Real software and apps were used just because they paid for product placement, not for accuracy
Good job team viewer by allowing yourself to look easily hackable by icecube.
Maybe it was reverse product placement
Who didn’t pay, was shown vulnerable lolol 😂
I knew exactly which movie was based on these reviews.
Bottle Episode: The Movie
The setup of this movie reminds me of Locke with Tom Hardy. That’s also basically a movie where you watch 1 person in a static situation (in a car in Locke) conducting remote project management. I’d have never expected a full movie to work with that setup, but Locke pulls it off imo.
Don’t forget Phone Booth! It’s Colin Farrell in a phone booth!!
Also kinda similar is Buried with Ryan Reynolds. Just him in a box the whole movie.
There was a whole movie with a guy in a box hoping to be unearthed (Buried, or something like that). It was quite decent.
I remember watching Fail Safe by chance and that movie was so fucking tense! Completely carried by the amazing cast. Maybe I should watch it again!
It’s about a cold war situation where iirc the USA bomb a city in Russia by accident and the movie / play is about how the two presidents negotiate to avoid all out nuclear war. Fantastic stuff.
Nice, 2.6 on IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13186306/
And 3% on rotten tomatoes https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/war_of_the_worlds_2025
And semi off topic: No, Phil Coulson how could you do this to yourself? You are the embodiment of SHIELD!
And 3% on rotten tomatoes https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/war_of_the_worlds_2025
aw, it was headed for a rare 0% rating til Jordan Hoffman from Entertainment Weekly had to ruin it…
My first fucking thought was was “yeah, how about no, I’m in fucking zoom calls all fucking day at work.” I give them credit, interesting idea as a high concept thing, but like no chance I’m even giving this 10 minutes even if the reviews weren’t utter shit.
Citizen Kane has nothing on Ice cube yelling “got em!” At a computer screen.
Also you can see the green screen reflected on his glasses the whole time
“war of the worlds 2025 featuring ice cube” is simply an insane combination of words to me
I hate the fact that this movie causes people to make fun of the genre and think it’s bad in general. Searching is an amazing movie and I love it, and it also has its entire plot on a computer screen. But it actually works, if you have a skilled director, great actors, a really good plot, and know how to exactly use that concept to make a great movie.
The 5 stars review is ironic
Why did anybody spend money on producing this “movie”? I mean really… somewhere in the midst of this someone should have started question their life choices.
It’s a 89 minutes Amazon ad. “See? We’re delivering with Amazon prime even during an alien invasion! So efficient” or “See? Even when the world banking got destroyed you can count on Amazon gift cards as a method of payment. That homeless gonna love that $1000 Amazon gift card!”
Edit: forgot that bezos had to shill also Tesla “full” self driving and that the
moviead ends with Joe Rogan tweeting a YouTube video that mainstream media and the government hid the truth (conveniently, the aliens ate all the data for all the websites except YouTube)The movie telling us that Teslas can be remotely hijacked feels like it should counteract any positives about automatic driving.
Then again this movie starts with an armed warrant execution for posting a YouTube video critical of the NSA, so the values are bit catawampus.
I’d like to say it was written by Chat GPT but I don’t wanna insult some innocent LLM.
Evan L is obviously taking the piss.
The concept isn’t bad as such. But I’m not surprised at all that they botched it as it’s not easy at all to pull off.
Disclaimer: I didn’t see it.I watched this movie for less than 10 minutes out of curiosity. Towards the end of that short time, I was thinking, “When will the scene change? This computer bit seems to be going on a bit long…” Luckily something came up, I got distracted and never finished the movie. Later I find out via memes that was the entire movie 🥴
Something that you missed, which became increasingly amazing as the movie went on was the elastic nature of time.
It took the same amount of time for earth to globalize its military, fight the tripods successfully, have the tripods break into data centers, disable all the military technology, and put the military on the defense as it did for a car with his daughter in it to drive a mile.
