The Tomorrow War is a maximum of five out of ten, no matter what you find on the IMDB. I think I’m usually generous with grades, and this is a sign. What’s wrong with this expected Science Fiction movie which is not part of Marvel or DC?
Plot
Even in the USA, people watch FIFA’s World Championship. During the final match, live on TV, a platoon materializes on the pitch. A beautiful curly Afro-American lady soldier begs the public for help in a future war happening 30 years later. A war against aliens!
Chris Pratt in The Tomorrow War 2021
[source: imdb.com]
Reasons The Tomorrow War Sucks
It looks as if made from scratch. With a bad directing, it seems even worse than World War Z, where Brad Pitt made no acting effort, making the flick a comedy instead of the horror-ish drama it was intended.
Chris Pratt, another comedian who kissed Baphomet’s hoof with the Marvel franchise, looks as if he was in the middle of rehab when he started filming. Very tired, very unfocused. A modern-day movie star. At least as Peter Quill/Star-Lord he was funny. Here, he doesn’t compensate, but this leads to the third major reason.
What happened with the script? It sucks big. It is a bad combination of Alien, Terminator 2, Edge of Tomorrow. It is illogical. In the 18th century, youngsters were hunted by the Austro-Hungarian army through the adjoined provinces of the empire with the lasso and forcibly recruited. After they were provided with uniforms, they were thrown in battle as cannon fodder. Same here. With no training, with no explanations, with no prevention, amateurs are launched in the mayhem. Some of them can’t even load a gun.
Instead of trying to find out how the aliens appeared in the first place, the Government officials are panicked and act as they acted during the 2020 pandemic, as if they were ordered by the WHO, hence by Bill Gates. Insanely misdirecting everybody.
Even in front of such a major disaster, the unavoidable losing war with entities looking exactly like copies of the Aliens’ franchise ones, there was no global cooperation, so a tiny expedition smuggled itself through Russia, and armed through the teeth, they fight against the original aliens. How they managed that with the tiny ancient airplane provided by Forester senior, remains a mystery. There’s a show which must go on, only this one here is limping.
Another illogical fact is the fixed 30 years framework. When the suckers were thrown to the future, the time passed the same in the future. A week in 2021 was a week in 2051 or 54, whatever, in a next launch, maybe that future disappeared altogether. What kind of time machine was that? What was keeping the recruits from deserting was a gladiator-like forearm guard, used also as the time launching device. Weirdly, it absorbed you in the future no matter where you were at the preprogrammed moment.
The Tomorrow War – Cast
Chris Pratt is Dan Forester, an ex-military (Iraq) who doesn’t find his place after the war in which he fought was over. Yvonne Strahovski is Colonel “Muri” Forester, and this is another major spoiler. Colonel Muri Forester is Dan Forester’s daughter, a unit commander in the future. She’s not quite John Connor’s equivalent in this movie, she’s a scientist commander. J.K. Simmons is James Forester, Dan Forester’s father, another ex-military (Vietnam this time), living “off-grid” (major BS) in a huge shed, very handy with everything, a technical mastermind, and fixer. He even managed to provide a formidably equipped airplane, ready to transport a small army from whatever hidden location in the USA to Siberia. Betty Gilpin is Emmy Forester, the home-staying wife. Sam Richardson is Charlie. After Strahovski, he is the only one acting here, with a good sense of humor, in Veep‘s Richard Splett fashion. Jasmine Mathews is Lt. Hart, a somehow glamorous apparition from the near future, bearing awful news. Edwin Hodge is Dorian, a suicidal career soldier. It is explained why, and it makes sense. He is also African-American and doesn’t have any sense of humor. Mary Lynn Rajskub is Nora. She is, like Charlie and Dorian, a recruit, only she is an amusing one.
Trailer
The trailer is less revealing than the IMDB’s cast, but you are reminded to subscribe to Amazon’s prime. Nice. It’s better than the whole movie.
My major spoiler: The world will be saved with the unequaled help from an eleven-year-old Afro-American kid who was nuts about volcanoes. The scientists seem to be already dead in the present times, so that perhaps explains why humankind will lose the war against the Alien movies’ aliens.
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