You may have heard about the latest version of War of the Worlds, but ... it is BAD!
Will Radford is a DHS Government agent that spies on hackers and other nefarious people... and his own children. Because he is a parent and wants what's best. But then aliens turn up, and start sucking up data! ... wait, what? ... They came now because the government just launched Goliath, which will enable them to parent everyone, get it, there's a thematic connection! Now Will has to join with his hacker son to take down the aliens, and the bad government. The aliens may have taken out all electricity and shut down all the computers, but Will's computer is fine (how?) as is the internet (wait, what?), so they won't have any problems. And it is the microbes that save us all.. no wait, no it isn't, it is a virus they write. Did they even read the book or see any adaptations or anything?
Remember Searching? And Missing? You know, the movies that were done entirely on computer screens, with face time like videos with the actors? What if we did that with this movie! So that we don't need to spend a lot of time setting up full sets and getting a lot of people together, just have them on screen, that'll do. At least we have the tripods... oh wait, they look like ass too! At least we only see them briefly through bad security cam footage, so that saves the effects team from having to do too much work.
Ice Cube is the lead, with his "oh no you don't" and "damn", he is the everyman government agent that... hang on, why are we on his side? He abuses his power to invade his children's lives, but at least he's on the good government's side? That feels like an excuse to allow him to see what's happening around the world, because luckily you can take control of everything with just a few clicks of a button. Other actors agreed to be in this too, some big names like Michael O'Neill and Jim Meskimen, and hey that's Clark Gregg!
This is a movie about a dad trying to be a better parent... but unfortunately the movie gets in the way.
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