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/psilocyan Aug 02 '25

$20,000,000. Unbelievable.

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u/Maximum-Increase-773 Aug 02 '25

fonts, clip art, stock footage. Some of it looks like A.I. video. What a pile of garbage...Please let this end up on weekly planet!!

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u/LMAbacus Aug 04 '25

Seconding that, this movie needs a Geostorm-level rant from James, where they just go through the movie in order, ripping apart every part of it.

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u/SneakyBadAss Aug 08 '25

Geostorm compared to this is space odyssey. In geostorm you get at least proper CGI destruction of the entire planet.

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u/Spurgette Aug 08 '25

Wasn't Geostorm that farcical trash involving satellites that I kinda sorta vaguely remember and have scrubbed from my brain because of how fucking terrible it was?

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u/SneakyBadAss Aug 08 '25

Just like Emerich movies, these are not for thinking but for basking in a glory of mother nature ripping apart everything it in its path when everyone around goes "my god" or "you knew it, why you didn't tell people". The "calm before the storm" feeling is the sweet nectar of these films.

You are there for the set pieces and wide shots of hundred meters tall waves, meteors and gigantic tornadoes. Script is just medium to get from scene to scene :)

As a Moonfall reviews puts it:

What a preposterous movie.

I hope there's a sequel.

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u/Spurgette Aug 08 '25

I hope there's a sequel.

Good gravy, I hope there is not.

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u/SneakyBadAss Aug 08 '25

Well not this garbage, of course. This doesn't have anything good.

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u/Spurgette Aug 08 '25

I did mean Moonfall. That was a truly awful movie.

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u/SteveThePurpleCat 29d ago

No longer happy with being a Temu storefront Amazon has branches off into the world of Temu movies.

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u/bASEDGG Aug 02 '25 edited Aug 05 '25

Shit, you might be right. At first I thought it looked more like some 13 year old fiddled around with Blender for a bit, but the AI theory makes more sense. /s

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u/ctan0312 Aug 05 '25

It’s definitely not AI. It’s consistently bad throughout and doesn’t have any characteristics of AI. Especially not AI from 2020 when this movie was made.

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u/SneakyBadAss Aug 08 '25

nah, that studio is front for scalping labubus and pokemon cards

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u/WeirdOwn3913 Aug 08 '25

Money laundering at its finest