By: Max Jasper

October 6, 2025

I don’t really know where to begin with Rich Lee’s 2025 screenlife science fiction thriller “War of the Worlds”, because it is the film equivalent of a messy bedroom that cannot possibly be cleaned up. Instead of cleaning the bedroom, you’re better off just buying a new house, because the mess cannot be cleaned up, no matter how hard you may try.

What makes “Worlds” so bad is how boring it is. During the COVID-19 pandemic, jobs turned remote, and the world became accustomed to virtual meetings. It would be a stretch to say most liked the virtual meetings. However, there were some perks. Working remotely meant that people didn’t have to go through their daily routine of putting on pants. Instead, you could work pantless, and nobody would know.

Returning to my greater point, working remotely got old fast. People didn’t want to sit and stare at their screens all day. For two weeks? Sure, they could handle it. But for over a year? No. People wanted to be in person, working like they were before. They wanted their normal routines back.

With all that being said, it should come as no surprise that a film with a grandiose story like “Worlds” has a 2 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, because nobody wants to watch an hour-and-a-half film of a computer security analyst saving the world through the means of his computer. It’s boring. Oh, and this computer security analyst is played by Ice Cube, the absolute last person who would be a computer security analyst.

Ice Cube plays William Radford, the protagonist of the film, who somehow gets worse each time he is on screen. The rest of the cast does about as well as they could have possibly done in their respective roles, I’m sure earning a nice paycheck from this writing atrocity.

And that’s just what “Worlds” is: a writing atrocity. The story goes all over the place, the emotional beats are poorly timed, and the convenience within the story is just too good to be true. If I had the time, I could go over each minuscule detail about the story that just didn’t work, but I won’t waste my own time, because I’d probably have to watch the film again, and that’s about the last thing I want to do right now.

Instead of organizing the messy bedroom that is Rich Lee’s “War of the Worlds”, I’ll just leave it as is, because it will forever be a terrible, terrible film.

I would rate this film a half star out of five.