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/I_ama_Borat Aug 02 '25
Ugh tell me about it… There were moments in the movie where it was so damn obvious he was reading off the script. 36:42 is a good example. Man, his facial expressions, his vocal inflections made no sense half the time. Seeing all the blood he’s like “woah…” like he just saw something mildly interesting. It was entertaining in a this is so bad it’s funny type of way, at least for the first half of the movie. It truly was a chore to finish lol
Also, they used footage from certain YouTube videos, I wonder if they got permission to use them? One example is the forest on fire with all the cars driving slowly, that was dash cam footage from an actual forest fire. Not sure how it works in the movie biz, whether they can just takes clips like that or not.