Back to the 1990s with Chris Pratt in ‘The Tomorrow War.’ movie.The script’s illogical nature is the film’s biggest enemy.
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Time travelers arrive from 2051 to deliver an urgent message: 30 years in the future mankind is losing a war against a deadly alien species. The only hope for survival is for soldiers and civilians to be transported to the future and join the fight. Determined to save the world for his daughter, Dan Forester teams up with a brilliant scientist and his estranged father to rewrite the planet’s fate.
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The Tomorrow War Movie Review
The Tomorrow War is a film about humans fighting aliens 50 years in the future in order to save Earth’s human population. The Tomorrow War will be available exclusively on Amazon Prime Videoon July 2, 2021.
Chris Pratt utilised his star power and fame from the “Jurassic World” and “Guardians of the Galaxy” franchises to film… “The Tomorrow War,” a blandly generic and overlong sci-fi thriller.
It was originally set to release in cinemas before the epidemic, but it’s now available on Amazon Prime Video for streaming, though it’s hard to think that seeing it on the big screen would have substantially improved the experience. Director Chris McKay’s first live-action film, “The LEGO Batman Movie,” combines several overly familiar elements in an unremarkable manner: time travel, a horde of relentless alien invaders, a ragtag band banding together to stop them, some unresolved father-son issues, and a few misfit sidekicks to provide comic relief. Writer Zach Dean’s ostensibly original script provides little in the way of innovation or inspiration.
Pratt, amongst all of this clichéd mayhem, tries to summon theatrical chops he simply lacks. As the cocky Peter Quill, he may be a wildly charismatic character speeding around the Marvel Cinematic Universe, while as the brave Owen Grady, he can be a compelling action hero dealing with dinosaurs. As the voice of cheery Emmet Brickowski in the “The LEGO Movie” series, he is an irresistible charmer. Pratt, on the other hand, isn’t known for playing a dull suburban dad trying to save his family—and all of humanity. It doesn’t allow him to swagger.
Then, after he’s pushed into the chaos of travelling back in time to combat the marauding aliens, his wide-eyed, mouth-agape expression unwittingly recalls the famous Pratt meme from his pre-hunky days on NBC’s “Parks and Recreation.” In the film’s opening sequence, Pratt’s character is flung 30 years into the future and subsequently plunged from the sky into a high-rise rooftop swimming pool.
Human visitors from the year 2051 have ventured back in time to tell us that an alien invasion has invaded Earth, and humans will have to leap forward three decades to help fight them—the population has been devastated. Dan Forester, a mild-mannered high school science teacher and Iraq war veteran from Pratt, is one of them. While he is hesitant to leave his wife (an underused Betty Gilpin) and bright, nine-year-old daughter (the self-possessed Ryan Kiera Armstrong), he declares at the beginning of the film, “I am meant to do something special with my life,” as have so many other mediocre, middle-aged white men before him. This is the item in question.
But, before he’s zapped, he has to face his estranged father (a tremendously buff J.K. Simmons), which provides an opportunity for overacting and a preview of the hysteria to come. And, as he’s getting fitted for the wristband that will send him to the future for his week-long tour of duty, he discovers that he’ll die in seven years anyhow. The jittery tech nerd Charlie (Sam Richardson of “Veep”) and the wisecracking oddball Norah are among the other troops in his unit (Mary Lynn Rajskub). None of these characters are really interesting.
Whether they’re prepared or not, they’ll be met with an army of albino creatures known as White Spikes when they arrive. They scurry and gnash, strangle and cut with tentacles, and utter a staccato roar akin to the one heard in “Predator.” They also appear to be exceedingly corny, both individually and collectively. Not only do they move in an unsettling manner, but the enormous action scenes are also edited in an unsettling manner. They have a sleek, never-ending frenzy about them that is off-putting. The fact that everything is suffocated by a barrage of gunfire and Lorne Balfe’s overpowering score doesn’t help matters.
Pratt runs, groans, shoots, or cries “Nooo!” in slow motion throughout. Quite a bit. And that’s some of his more convincing stuff. His encounters with Yvonne Strahovski, who plays a no-nonsense colonel dispensing instructions, are less spectacular; she bonds with him in part because of his military past. The “Handmaid’s Tale” star is also the performer who comes out of this ordeal the most undamaged, delivering clumsy, explanatory lines with surprising subtlety in this crazy atmosphere. Pratt, on the other hand, appears to be outmatched against her.
“The Tomorrow War” ultimately succumbs to its “Alien” influences in the final half-hour, with ear-splitting shrieks and blood and yellow-green fluids squishing and spewing everywhere. It’s as if a condiment stand at a stadium got sentient and went evil. This is the point at when things teeter on the brink of becoming so horrible that they’re good, but it’s too late by then. And, anyhow, no one will be able to hear you scream in the future.
CRITICS CONSENSUS
Chris Pratt ably anchors this sci-fi adventure, even if The Tomorrow War may not linger in the memory much longer than today.
AUDIENCE SAYS
It isn’t the most surprising time-travel movie, but a satisfying story and plenty of entertaining action make The Tomorrow War well worth a watch.
Conclusion
We’re not complaining as long as the wormholes connecting multiple periods are kept open and running, and people fall from the sky into the middle of the action, an ancient glacier in Iceland stands in for Severnaya, and Chris Pratt flexes those joyful biceps.
The Tomorrow War should have been a good action movie, but the storyline is so bad that it’s not even a dumb summer movie.
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