The Tomorrow War

The Tomorrow War

The world is stunned when a group of time travelers arrive from the year 2051 to deliver an urgent message: Thirty years in the future, mankind is losing a global war against a deadly alien species. The only hope for survival is for soldiers and civilians from the present to be transported to the future and join the fight. Among those recruited is high school teacher and family man Dan Forester. Determined to save the world for his young daughter, Dan teams up with a brilliant scientist and his estranged father in a desperate quest to rewrite the fate of the planet.

  • Released: 2021-07-02
  • Runtime: 138 minutes
  • Genre: Action, Adventure
  • Stars: Chris Pratt, Yvonne Strahovski, J.K. Simmons, Betty Gilpin, Sam Richardson, Edwin Hodge, Jasmine Mathews, Seychelle Gabriel, Alan Trong, Chibuikem Uche, Alexis Louder, Mike Mitchell, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Keith Powers, Felisha Terrell, Melissa Saint-Amand, Gary Weeks, Rose Bianco, Gissette E. Valentin, David Maldonado, Olaolu Winfunke, Piper Collins, Matthew Cornwell, Eric Graise, Ashlyn Moore, Christina Bach, Jared Shaw, Robert Tinsley, Andrea Andrade, Christopher Cocke, Shane Berengue, Alzie Williams, Stacy Johnson, Rad Daly, Patrick Malone, Jim Palmer, Clark Sarullo, Megan Lawless, Chris TC Edge, Nicole L. Campbell, Perry Zulu Jr., Gloria Bishop, Rahiem Riley, Keith Brooks, Quasheem D. Herring, Terrence Smith, Darin Ferraro, Clyde C Harris, DJames Jones, Jason m Edwards, Mia Naipaul, Christopher Holloway, Bryan Metoyer, Nic Curtis, Justine Edwards, Tommy O'Brien, Dean Feldman, Shawn Ray Cartel, Damon LeGrand, Jamie Urena, Eric Daniel Stumpp, Amere Stewart, Conrad Carpenter, Adriana Catalano, Nathan W. Collins, Reese Giles, Jeannie Ledford, Eeryn Falk Lubicich, Kasandra Bandfield, Gregory Weeks, Desiree Supernaugh, Dave Parra, Michelle Rivera, Kiley Casciano, Barb Willis, April Knox, Patrick Fleming, Alicia Cuthbertson, Nikki Mejia, Roger Barton, Zachary James Rukavina, Angel Giuffria, Seth Schenall, Joshua Israel, Caden Graham, Gabrielle Byndloss, Kenneth Israel, La'Toya Kirkland, Amanda Hatfield
  • Director: Chris McKay
 Comments
  • benrostul - 9 January 2023
    brilliant
    This is just great. Loads of action, the dialogue does the job, and it's got an emotional line as well. Plus ugly dribbling monsters. What's not to like? Hugely entertaining. And here I am wqriting another couple of hundred extra characters all of which are redundant. Watch this, sit back, and enjoy. And I'm still short of the stupid overlong review quota. I need to write another couple of hundred, but you the reader do not need to read them as they are superfluous. All I needed to say was great film watch it. I really don't see why IMDB, a visual medium, needs lots of words to say how great a film is.
  • blmulholland-14261 - 25 November 2022
    Very poorly written, but even as a pure action movie it fails.
    This movie has so many problems it's hard to know where to start. But let's start with the movie's main strength - as a "don't think too hard" fun action movie. Even on that level, this movie just isn't that good.

    Most of the action involves the characters shooting randomly and uninterestingly at CG monsters. Not GOOD CF monsters either. In many scenes they look more like stop-motion animation with unreal feeling movements that are inappropriate for such large creatures and as such FEEL weightless and disconnected.

    The action is never particularly creative or visually interesting. It's just 'spray and pray' and then the CF animators decide if your character is important enough that your shots magically hit the sweet spot - which the show says is the neck and belly, yet the bullet randomly affect or don't affect other body parts as well.

    Which leads to the plot. I want to give some kudos here because the BASIC PREMISE of a war in the future where conscripts from the past participate is ... actually kind of interesting. It has moral and practical dimensions that might be interesting to explore as one world-builds. But this move does none of that! Instead, it's JUST a hook for Chris Pratt to shoot monsters.

    And you will never find a movie that contradicts itself more often. So often this movie establishes something and then completely does the opposite almost immediately. Some examples - the 'females' are said to be indestructible and they need a captive to study to create a toxin that will work against them. It's a major plot point. Except everytime there's a fight against a female alien, LITERALLY EVERYTHING works. Fire hurt her, harpoons...hell at one point Chris Pratt PUNCHES the alien with a claw of one of it's own kind and that works JUST FINE. It's hard to find any attack type that FAILED against her than one that succeeded.

    Another - we're told, for no reason other than to nerf the incredible power of time travel so that the authors didn't have to be clever about it, that time travel is only possible between two 'rafts', one at your destination, one at your source. Therefore travel to OTHER times is impossible. There must be a raft there. Except, the initial coming back in time wouldn't have had a raft AND, as the raft continues to exist, you can send to ANY time where that raft would exist. Worse, they then send Chris Pratt through and a coordinate mistake means he comes out somewhere OTHER than where the other raft is.

    Really, I could do this forever, and that's without pointing out standard hollywood type mistakes like wondering why in the future they seem to have less advanced weapons than we have even today? Or why they're using F-22 stealth fighters for carpet combing when the F-22 isn't capable of carryign that much ordinance and it's radar stealth nature is pointless against a non-technological enemy? Or why the world is completely willing to believe a couple of 20-somethings that show up in a lightshow about a massive future war...but then won't believe Pratt when he shows up WITH a vile of unknown toxin as proof that the aliens are already in the present day?

    Even the acting is...at best mediocre. I like Pratt and Yvonne whats-her-name. I liked the actor playing the plucky comic relief. But Chris Pratt's strength as an actor is his ability to do comedy with his action hero looks. And yet, his character is mostly pretty bland. The plucky comic relief gets the most cliche treatment imaginable. The future daughter storyline makes little to no sense if you think about it for more than ten seconds.

    This movie does nothing well, and even it's strength is mediocre. I did watch it all the way to the end, but I was pausing...alot. I almost stopped multiple times. Watch something else. This isn't worth your time.