The Tomorrow War: Indubitably, a Review
For all the criticisms I can levy, it’s still a worthwhile film for a fun evening in.
In The Tomorrow War, we have Chris Pratt doing his usual superb job acting in a lovable role: dad of the hour struggling to follow his passion for science in a job market that won’t support him. Despite his many years of military service, he just doesn’t have the private sector corporate experience that the big labs want, and when we first encounter him he’s just experiencing yet another rejection.
This pretty clearly sets up one of the film’s main themes: the failure of society to reintegrate the soldiers it sends to war. Other themes like fatherhood and family responsibility are a bit more muted, and are weirdly intermingled with a bunch of other plot points that distract from them.
Leading the plot, Pratt’s character ends up clearing a path into the future to try and save the past (that’s not giving anything away that isn’t in the trailer, don’t worry). Things get a bit more complicated than he expected, and there are a whole bunch of pretty solid CGI scenes where Pratt kills a massive load of aliens and a massive load of random human extras get to be killed by aliens in return. Overall, this portion of the story is sort of what you’d expect from any grade-B action sci-fi flick…
