2025 · sci-fi · thriller
War of the Worlds
Directed by Rich Lee1h 31m2025
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.
Our read: War of the Worlds (2025) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive sci-fi · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme sci-fi / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- extreme
- cold
- twisty
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