Today, on The Goggler Podcast, Bahir and Uma watch and review the utterly inept War of the Worlds remake on Prime Video.

In this modern screenlife reimagining of H.G. Wells’s classic, Homeland Security cyber‑security specialist Will Radford monitors the world through surveillance grids and grapples with strained family ties when a sudden alien invasion erupts — depicted entirely through computer screens, video calls, and digital feeds. As meteors strike and tripod-like war machines emerge, Will and his NASA scientist friend race to shield society while uncovering a chilling truth: the aliens consume data, not flesh, and the government’s “Goliath” surveillance system may have provoked them. With the help of his hacker son Disruptor and pregnant daughter, Will hacks into Goliath to unleash a virus and shut it down, foiling a global catastrophe and ultimately defeating the invaders — but not before exposing corruption, revealing heroism, and raising haunting questions about privacy, power, and pervasive technology. War of the Worlds was directed by Rich Lee and stars Ice Cube, Eva Longoria, Clark Gregg, Andrea Savage, Henry Hunter Hall, Iman Benson, and Devon Bostick.

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