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):

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

Yeah, but we need to back up before we even get into the aliens so we can discuss how Ice Cube plays a “domestic-terror analyst.” War of the Worlds is set entirely on William Radford’s computer screen,