Quartile rating: 4.5/10 · 1 rating
Will Radford is a top analyst for Homeland Security who tracks potential threats through a mass surveillance program, until one day an attack by an unknown entity leads him to question whether the government is hiding something from him... and from the rest of the world.
This 2025 screenlife/found-footage War of the Worlds adaptation scores points for its contemporary surveillance-state framing and screenlife execution, which gives it a modestly distinctive spin on the classic alien invasion premise. However, the plot is muddled and fails to build satisfying tension, the acting is unremarkable and undercut by the found-footage constraints, and the cinematography is limited by design to screens and interfaces — functional but not exceptional. The ending appears to be a significant weak point, consistent with a low TMDB score, likely feeling unresolved or anticlimactic. The screenlife approach is the one genuinely novel element, borrowing from films like Unfriended and Host but applying it to a large-scale invasion narrative.