It would have been easy to completely miss the fact that there is another new movie based on H. G. Wells's 1898 novel The War of the Worlds. The 2025 film War of the Worlds is the eighth film based on that novel, not to mention the infamous 1938 radio play by Orson Welles, or the TV shows, or other adaptations. The new movie is only available on Amazon Prime, and I never heard of it until everyone and his brother (including mine) saw it and can't stop talking about how awful it is. Screen Junkies counts the reasons in this Honest Trailer, so you can stop listening to less eloquent screeds.
The hero is played by Ice Cube, a government surveillance expert who is confined to his cubicle and watches aliens attack earth through his screens. He has a family, who all happen to be involved in earth-changing events. The whole movie is claustrophobic, because it was conceived during the pandemic, as if we want to relive that. And it may strike you as an 89-minute ad for Amazon. Doomed to be a classic.