'Disastrous' Prime Video thriller movie panned by 0% Rotten Tomatoes score

Amazon Prime Video'slatest reboot offering has not gone down well with critics as it has landed an infamous 0% Rotten Tomatoes score. The Tomatometer ranks movies and TV shows, with percentages indicating the level of critical approval.

Anything above 60% is considered "fresh", while scores below that threshold areranked as "rotten". A 0% score indicates that every critic who viewed the film or TV series considered it to be a negative experience and overwhelmingly panned - ouch!

The latest film to be added to the list is War of the Worlds, which was released on Prime Video on 30 July. It sees Ice Cube star alongside Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria. It comes after another film, completely on the other end of the spectrum, received a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score and was dubbed "transcendently beautiful".

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In the reboot of HG Wells' 1898 novel of the same name, Ice Cube takes on the role of Will Radford, a government analyst whose life is disrupted when aliens invade Earth.

The film has been described as "a thrilling out-of-this-world adventure that is filled with present-day themes of technology, surveillance, and privacy."

However, at the time of writing it has ranked an abysmal 0% score on Rotten Tomatoes from 12 reviews. Variety have branded it "disastrous".

They added: "Even with a Prime subscription, you have to sit through two minutes of ads to watch 90 more of what amounts to a feature-length commercial for all things Amazon."

Others agreed as Screen Anarchy said War of the Worlds is "hilariously bad, until it becomes risibly ridiculous... A 90-minute infomercial for Amazon."

"Failing to muster any meaningful suspense from its misguided gimmick, this reimagining of the classic H.G. Wells science-fiction saga becomes more ridiculous as it goes along," said Cinemalogue.

Mark Reviews Movies wrote: "War of the Worlds offers a clever concept for telling this story. Everything else about it fails to live up to that promise."

"Poorly written and awkwardly paced, War of the Worlds is in contention for one of the worst movies of the decade so far," Austin Burke commented.

However, the bad critical reception hasn't put off viewers. According to FlixPatrol, War of the Worlds is ranked as the number one most watched film on Prime Video.

It is sitting in first place in their top 10 movies in the UK. This version of the classic sci-fi thriller takes inspiration from recent ‘screenlife’ films, which take place entirely on computer and smartphone screens.

Viewers have been sharing their own thoughts on Reddit as one claimed the film is “on another level of bad”. Someone replied: “I honestly think this may be one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

“Sure there are plenty of movies that fail in every possible way and end up a nonsensical mess. But even those have a certain charm and a certain level of effort behind them. This movie is the absolute laziest movie I've ever seen, and it's so blatant about it.”

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