The movie has been universally panned by critics as a poor adaptation of the original novel and a feature-length advertisement for Amazon.

Amazon's War of the Worlds Remake Starring Ice Cube Staring at a Computer Screen Gets Rare 0% Rotten Tomatoes Critics Score A mazon’s recently released War of the Worlds remake has a rare 0% Rotten Tomatoes critics score — and the audience score isn’t far behind.

None of the 20 reviews listed for War of the Worlds on Rotten Tomatoes gave it a positive score, and the fan-generated Popcornmeter only comes out slightly better at 18%. 50 Cent posted the following to Instagram upon seeing headlines about how poorly this sci-fi flick has been received (edited for grammar and clarity):