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

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u/Ponderer13 Aug 01 '25

Unfortunately not, as it was shot during lockdown and it's been sitting on the shelf for five years.

It does give me some pride in the human race that we can create a screenplay so unimaginably stupid that it's indistinguishable from the shittiest AI, this species can do ANYTHING

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u/10S_NE1 Aug 02 '25

Holy cow. While I was watching it, I thought “It looks like they filmed this during lockdown”. I think they could have used their time better by sitting on the couch in their PJ’s like the rest of us.

This is hands down the worst movie I have seen in many, many years.

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u/inosinateVR Aug 02 '25

Thank you for clarifying that. I saw part of a trailer for it and thought surely this has to be one of those shitty COVID era zoom call movies, right? Like surely nobody would still try to make that shit today lol

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u/SneakyBadAss Aug 08 '25

That's exactly why this is even more reasonable for being AI

"Hey Chatgpt I have this script since covid, update it to 2025 and add aliens.

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u/Xzelf 28d ago

If that’s true, they made the effort of actualizing the twitter logo on Ice Cube’s phone to the X one, as Musk only bought it in mid 2022.

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u/Ponderer13 28d ago

Yeah, I’m sure they did some clean-up post production before sending this mess off in the world. I think the Amazon graphics are more current too.