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Amazon's new adaptation of War of the Worlds has made Rotten Tomatoes' list of the 100 worst movies of all time – even though the film has lost its rare 0% score.
After debuting to a critics' score of 0% and an audience score of 12%, both have risen in the past week to land at 3% for critics and 22% for audiences. That puts the movie at number 88 on Rotten Tomatoes' list.
According to the review aggregator's critics' consensus, the movie "[strands] Ice Cube in an inept screensaver with wall-to-wall product placement" and "will make audiences consider giving peace a chance instead."
Ice Cube stars as Will Radford, a surveillance and threat assessment expert at the Department of Homeland Security, who's on the hunt for a hacker known as the Disruptor when a shower of meteors containing large, violent machines hits Earth. This version of War of the Worlds is a "screenlife" movie, which means it adapts H.G. Wells' alien invasion novel into a story that takes place entirely on computer or phone screens.
Elsewhere on Rotten Tomatoes WOAT list, the number one spot is taken by 2002's action thriller Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, starring Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu, which has a critics' score of 0% based on 118 reviews and an audience score of 21%.
Other movies on the list include Jaws: The Revenge, Nina, starring Zoe Saldaña as Nina Simone, and spoof Epic Movie, which all have scores of 2%. On the higher end of the scale, with entries right at the end of the list and scores of 4%, are Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, Speed 2: Cruise Control, and horror flick Flatliners, starring Diego Luna.
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