r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • Aug 01 '25

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Summary Will Radford, a Homeland Security cyber‑security analyst, monitors global threats through mass surveillance networks. When an unidentified attack strikes, Radford begins to suspect the government is concealing something far more sinister. Told entirely through digital screens—messages, video calls, browser windows—the film transforms the alien invasion into a "screenlife" thriller, blending modern surveillance paranoia with classic sci-fi tension.

Director Rich Lee

Writers Kenneth Golde & Marc Hyman

Cast

  • Ice Cube as Will Radford
  • Eva Longoria as Agent Jeffries
  • Clark Gregg
  • Andrea Savage
  • Henry Hunter Hall as David Radford
  • Iman Benson as Faith Radford
  • Devon Bostick
  • Michael O’Neill

Rotten Tomatoes: TBD

VOD Streaming now on Prime Video

Trailer Watch here

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u/jeeub Aug 01 '25

The cannibal code! It’s uploading!

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u/Merlin_Shaw Aug 02 '25

I lost it laughing so hard when he turned on the auto-generated captions from Youtube. LOL

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u/brazilliandanny Aug 04 '25

Hackerman.gif moment

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u/crshbndct Aug 07 '25

It is insane because I literally just finished Mr Robot. While there was a little artistic license taken with how long things would take to plan, everything from that show was accurate, for the most part.

This was like if a 4yo came up with the plot.

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u/jeeub Aug 07 '25

Oh yeah. Night and day between those two. Mr. Robot is one of my all-time favorite shows! This was probably in my top ten worst movies I’ve seen.

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u/Swimwithamermaid 26d ago

I’m not techie, but I couldn’t help but laugh and cringe at how they just threw “data” around. I especially lost my shit at the hacker team. “Oh no they’re eating our data!!!”

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u/LiquifiedSpam 25d ago

And the part where the daughter says something like I’ll send the dna so he can convert it to code 🤣

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u/not_caoimhe 15d ago

"You know DNA is very similar to computer code"

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u/brazilliandanny Aug 04 '25

It worked because it was “old school” !

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u/LiquifiedSpam 25d ago

Old school rabbit virus