Director Roland Emmerich's latest science fiction film stands among Hollywood's costliest commercial failures. Released in 2022 with a $150 million budget—his most expensive production since 2009—the film generated box office revenue below half its production costs. This result caps Emmerich's extended period of theatrical underperformance, as he has not delivered a successful theatrical release in seventeen years.

The film is now available to stream on Amazon Prime Video, offering wider audiences access to what ranks among the most expensive independently financed films ever produced. Its performance compares unfavourably even to other notorious independent productions like Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets and Terminator Salvation, both budgeted around $200 million and similarly unsuccessful. The release exemplifies Emmerich's recent struggles in theatrical cinema, a sharp reversal from his earlier decades as one of the world's most commercially successful filmmakers.