
Everyone is wrong about Ice Cube's War of the Worlds
In my 5★ rewatch of War of the Worlds (2025), Ice Cube channels the edge he had in Boyz n the Hood—ad-libbing like Doughboy with a Homeland Security clearance in a "real-life" alien invasion that fuses Host (2020)’s Covid chaos with ’50s B-movie paranoia with MST3K-ready charm.