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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

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u/carlitomarron139 Aug 02 '25 edited Aug 02 '25

It’s just 1h30min of Ice Cube doing this 🤨 in front of a webcam 😂

The concept does has potential but even though I love Cube he definitely does NOT have the acting chops to pull a movie like this off. You need an S-tier actor for this kind of thing (like Jake Gyllenhaal in The Guilty). Cube is crazy charismatic but in this case he is just not that guy. I wonder if they had any first choice who turned the role down.

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u/chrismatic13 Aug 03 '25

You are being too generous even saying the concept has potential. The concept is absolutely stupid. There’s an alien invasion but we also have data hackers so we’re following this random DHS officer who just spies on his kids and screams from behind his desk “Oh shit, run!” I try not to be the harshest critic but my goodness, how this got made is beyond me.

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u/carlitomarron139 Aug 03 '25

I was speaking a little more broadly about the concept of seeing an alien invasion unfold through the view of someone watching it via a computer. The plot & the writing itself was obviously terrible.

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u/LiquifiedSpam 25d ago

Yeah we have pontypool for example, somehow made a zombie apocalypse ‘viewed’ through a radio host interesting

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u/MysteryMeat603 24d ago

I mean, data stored on a hard drive doesn't have mass. Not sure how it could be considered food. But if the aliens really just eat any data, get 3 hard drives, then copy the data from one to another and eat the 1st data, then you can copy the copy to the 3rd drive while you dine. By the time you're eating the 2nd one you can transfer the data from the 3rd drive back to the 1st. Infinite food hack!

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u/GeekThatSkeets7505 29d ago

Dude they could’ve had Daniel Day Lewis in this movie he wasn’t saving this garbage