It’s bought an epic title, a big-name star as its lead and a significant studio behind it.
However because it was launched on Amazon’s Prime Video on July 25, “Conflict of the Worlds” has grow to be an all-time scores bust.
The brand new adaptation of H.G. Wells’ guide was ranked as one of many worst movies of all time by the assessment aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes.
The movie stars Ice Dice as Homeland Safety surveillance and risk evaluation skilled Will Radford, who makes use of authorities expertise to spy on, and later assist, his kids amid an unfolding alien invasion. Radford is at his desk everything of the movie, watching occasions unfold in entrance of him on a pc display screen.
Eva Longoria, Michael O’Neill, Olivia DeLaurentis and Clark Gregg additionally star within the film, which was directed by Wealthy Lee.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the sci-fi film has a paltry 3% ranking on the “Tomatometer,” which tracks critic evaluations, and 21% on the “Popcornmeter,” which tracks viewers evaluations.
Rotten Tomatoes’ “Worst Films at All Time” checklist ranks “Conflict of the Worlds” 88th. The 2002 sci-fi thriller “Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever” is No. 1. The one different title from 2025 to make the checklist is Sylvester Stallone’s “Alarum.”
Only one critic, Jordan Hoffman of Leisure Weekly, gave “Conflict of the Worlds” a licensed recent rating, writing, “It is definitely silly, however it’s additionally quite a lot of enjoyable.”
Most others described the movie because the worst tackle Wells’ 1898 novel about Martians invading Earth. Previous variations embody the Orson Welles-directed CBS Radio broadcast in 1938, a Gene Barry-starring 1953 Technicolor movie and Steven Spielberg’s 2005 movie, which starred Tom Cruise.
Lee “butchers the traditional sci-fi parable on humankind’s colonialist ills and creates an obnoxiously uninteresting, totally braindead (debatable bootleg) train in capitalist, surveillance state propaganda,” wrote one Rotten Tomatoes critic.
Some on-line famous that they felt just like the film’s tagline — which is “It’s worse than you suppose” — is an acceptable option to summarize their reactions to the movie itself.
Lee and the forged haven’t publicly addressed the response.
Neither Common Footage, which produced the movie, nor Amazon Studios, which distributed it, responded to requests for remark. (Common Footage is a division of NBC Information’ guardian firm, NBC Common.)
However as with another movies that obtain poor evaluations, the response to “Conflict of the Worlds” has additionally made it buzzy.
Many viewers have reworked Ice Dice’s reactions in varied scenes into memes and GIFs.
The movie has solidified a spot on the web database Know Your Meme.
The web site attributes the rise in on-line traction to a July 21 submit on X from the consumer “PoorOldRoloTony,” who shared a clip from the movie. The consumer wrote, “Conflict of the Worlds (2025) is the worst adaption of the supply materials up to now. It had no concepts past the discovered footage method.” The submit had been seen 1.9 million occasions as of Tuesday.
Customers throughout TikTok and X have additionally continued to poke enjoyable on the performing, dialogue, oversimplified gadget hacking and heavy-handed messaging about mass authorities surveillance and conspiracy theories.
“Feels like Ice Dice is studying straight from a script that he had by no means seen earlier than…,” a TikToker wrote within the textual content of their video, which featured a clip from the movie. The video has been seen 1.1 million occasions.
One other TikToker ranked the “cringiest moments” from the movie, together with Ice Dice’s response to his character’s son dying.
One TikToker even impersonated Ice Dice, recording themselves dressed as him and reciting traces from the film.
Some viewers have additionally criticized the film’s placement of Amazon merchandise, together with scenes that function a Prime Air supply drone and a personality receiving a $1,000 Amazon reward card.
Vetz, a YouTube channel that ranks and assessment films, cited the product placement as one of many predominant causes the movie ranks on its 10 worst films of 2025 checklist.
“The worst product placement I’ve ever seen in my life,” stated Joel, a reviewer for the channel, which has 261,000 subscribers.
On the in style film monitoring platform Letterboxd, the movie averaged simply 1 star from the roughly 90,000 individuals who logged having watched it.
“A 90-minute industrial for an Amazon service that may by no means depart the pilot stage,” one consumer wrote. “Unimaginable stuff. Barely a film. Extremely really helpful.”
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