Amazon’s new Struggle of the Worlds film starring Ice Dice and Eva Longoria was quietly launched on-line final week and acquired universally detrimental critiques. Clips of the horrible sci-fi catastrophe flick, which is instructed solely by way of a pc display, have gone viral on-line. However one specific clip involving an Amazon supply driver and a drone completely sums up how this newest iteration of the basic sci-fi story is much less a film and extra an inexpensive branding train that doesn’t even hit 90 minutes.
Launched on July 30, Struggle of the Worlds was cooked up through the top of the COVID-19 pandemic and tells the story of an alien invasion. However as a substitute of following a bunch of characters by means of a harmful and hostile invasion, you principally watch Ice Dice wrestle to behave in entrance of a webcam for 80 minutes, not counting the credit and opening logos. Very late within the movie, Ice Dice’s character wants a selected piece of code to close down a robust pc that the aliens are going after, and which america is keen to nuke to maintain out of their Martian fingers. The issue is that Ice Dice and a load of individuals, together with his household, can be killed by the bomb. So a hacker sends him the code. However he has to place it on a USB thumb drive, which he in some way doesn’t have. Don’t fear, Ice Dice’s daughter has an thought. She downloads the code and hundreds it up on a USB drive, after which her boyfriend, who’s an Amazon supply driver, will use his Amazon Prime Air drone to ship the USB system to Ice Dice and save the day. Right here’s the scene:
Yeah, you simply watched an Amazon Prime advert shoved into this film about an alien invasion. This actually appears like a Tremendous Bowl business greater than a movie. And right here’s the wild factor: This isn’t the worst second involving Amazon within the film. A couple of minutes after this scene, the drone crashes and flips over close to a homeless man residing in a tent. This man is scared, as throughout him are alien tripods destroying Earth. However our “heroes” want his assist. In order that they use NSA tech to trace down his telephone quantity and textual content him to flip the drone over. He received’t threat his life to do it so they provide him a $1,000 Amazon reward card, pushing him over the sting and getting him to satisfy the lethal job. Gross shit!
Anyway, Struggle of the Worlds is barely a film. Greater than half the runtime is only a view of a desktop PC and inventory footage spliced into home windows as in the event that they’re safety cameras or YouTube movies. It’s horrendous. It’s terrible. And it’s precisely the form of film Amazon and different huge firms need to make. Films which can be barely films, made for little cash, starring folks you would possibly acknowledge, and crammed with adverts and product placement. That is our future. It sucks, huh?
