The Tomorrow War
Published July 12, 2021
Film info
- Title The Tomorrow War
- Director Chris McKay
- Year 2021
- Run time 2hrs 18m
- Genres Action, Science Fiction
- Tagline The fight for tomorrow begins today
Time travellers 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.
Live blog
| Time | Comment |
|---|---|
| 2:45 | “I’m going to punch you in your very unfortunately handsome face.” |
| 6:18 | “I will do what nobody else is willing to do.” Remember that for the future. |
| 8:47 | Crashing the World Cup final is genius. |
| 10:12 | They must have done a lot of convincing to make this a global worldwide effort. The globe won’t even believe climate change. |
| 16:38 | It’s so crap when they say if you dodge, your family has to take your place. Unfair in the extreme. |
| 27:38 | A tour of duty of seven days sounds easy. Bet it’s not though. |
| 31:00 | So far, every question Mr C has, they’ve got an answer for, that’s a good sign. |
| 37:05 | This is not a good start to a campaign. |
| 38:15 | What happened to Will Smith? |
| 45:39 | They’re battling aliens and humans at this point. Typical. |
| 52:52 | It really feels like this war should be being fought by planes and drones. |
| 59:53 | Ah, I didn’t see that coming. Should have! |
| 1:12:57 | Why did she take him at all if he wasn’t supposed to help? |
| 1:16:35 | Loving the Waterworld they’ve built! |
| 1:19:20 | Science montage. |
| 1:23:21 | Stubborn or persistent? |
| 1:27:54 | “You’re the mission now.” |
| 1:35:44 | He took the no-man-left-behind thing too far and just jumped in after her. |
| 1:47:30 | “I need a plane, and a pilot to fly undetected into Russian airspace so I can get a team of soldiers on top of a glacial island in order to find an alien spaceship.” “Well, you know, they say kids never come by unless they need something.” |
| 1:48:24 | Are they stuck in the past now and are going to create a paradox at some point? |
Thoughts
Right, so, I knew this was going to be a bit of action junk food going in - Chris Pratt leading a bit of a twisty time travel action movie fighting a war against aliens so far in the future. At first, it actually went better than I thought it would. Some areas were eye-rolling, but then they would answer every plot twist question we raised and it seemed to make sense.
Initially, after watching it, I thought it had gone okay. Not the best movie ever but entertaining enough.
Then, oh dear. The internet pointed out that it suffered from the Indiana Jones problem. They blew up all the aliens at the end with a bomb, they could have just done that, forget the rest of the movie. And now I can’t stop thinking about that fact and how wasteful the rest of it seems.
Rating: 1 / 5