when you watch the aliens touch down

This was definitely conceived of as a pandemic project, designed so everyone could just record their bits from home, and if it had dropped in, say, early 2021, we might all have gone, oh, fun.

Ice Cube now watching livestreams of people getting obliterated by bad CGI meteors and going "oh!"

If you'd shown me this a few weeks ago and asked me if we should release it or Zaslav it, I would've said to Zaslav it.

Ice Cube I think they might've built a little set for. Clark Gregg is definitely just at home. Eva Longoria is actually out and about. Mark O'Neill they might have just caught when he happened to be at the golf course already.

"What are the rules of engagement here??"

why are you asking the guy who profesionally stalks people through their amazon carts

Texting your boss "WE ARE UNDER ATTACK!!" "ALIENS IN METEORS" like he's not the director of DHS and already knows.

There's a cut in the footage of the person he's talking to but not in his footage.

he's remote stealing a Tesla for his pregnant daughter who's in the middle of one of the alien attacks right now and remote driving it, because he wants to... kill her faster?

"There's so much destruction!"

the car her dad stole is being remote driven through the most normal traffic you ever saw

I've never seen anything so cluelessly try to portray the surveillance state as not just a positive but a heroic thing, I think.

He's switched from video calling his daughter and watching her on the Tesla's cameras to... drafting her a quick emotional email?

This does a dogshit job at making this news footage feel like BBC News.

The movie tells us this guy is just some grunt at DHS, then we see him be the guy in the chair for what seems like a fairly minor hacker arrest? But now the President is taking invasion tips from him, so I guess Disruptor is the top of the l33+ h4cker food chain?

they're calling it a

war of the worlds

the son showing up to his dad who spies on people with "the government has a massive surveillance network"

"Everywhere they've been going, there's a data center."

lotta data centres in the world, man

the footage glitches but not the cgi tentacle lmaooo

oh the tentacles are data cables

that's genuinely not a bad idea

"Something's going on with the servers."
"What in the world...?"

the WAR of the worlds

"They're in hyper download!"

never do hyper download if there's a free download button

Two actors... in the same place?

"These things eat data?"

these things eat data

There's SO many reaction shots of Ice Cube going "oh no," or "that's terrible" at things he Disapproves Of because the picture can't conceive of what else to show him doing while we get all this exposition.

He just got a notification from Facebook to tell him the aliens were deleting his dead wife's Facebook memorial page.

oh, Disruptor also goes on about this surveillance thing

the son is Disruptor, obviously

this is the first time he's thought to run some vocal decryption on the hacker who encrypts his voice

in every phone call with his son the son tries to reach out to his dad who's clearly struggling and every time he just hangs up on him

Extremely unconvinced by these documents because they're clearly using modern typewriter fonts, all the evidence is clearly photoshopped.

Ice Cube is now upset to have found out the DHS building where he professionally intrudes on the privacy of the nation has a bunch of additional surveillance tech in it. Is he just upset there's toys they didn't tell him about?

He tells his boss he's on to him and NATURALLY immediately gets locked out of every system, the absolute maroon.

good news, his hacker son has hacked him back in

hacked to death

this whole time I thought the son's bad green screen was non-diegetic

"Faith can load it for you, and I can get it to you!"
"What? How?"
"Prime Air! It's the future of delivery!"

did a sentient amazon warehouse write this

the daughter clicking through the 3D map of the server room looking for where they could possibly be keeping Goliath (the Bad surveillance tech) and learning that it's in the Goliath aisle

a big beat at the end here is that Joe Rogan thinks Ice Cube and Son of Cube are heroes

the kids have got his scheduled emotion email for after his suicide mission -- but Ice Cube is still alive, and instead of answering the call and working on new surveillance tech, he's too busy watching the government and being in extremely poorly photoshopped pictures with his family and the one friend he has