The Tomorrow War is a scifi movie about a future war with an alien species, as the aliens gain ground and humanity dwindles the future soldiers time travel back to our present to conscript soldiers from the present.
The script has many glaring issues and Pratt does it no service by leveling a bafflingly inept portrayal, one part wide-eyed sincere obtuseness of his Parks And Rec character with one part terrible Harrison Ford impersonation. It seems his meteoric rise to stardom has now begat his inevitable decline into straight to streaming C-list action flicks. The supporting cast is almost unilaterally flat and fague, the actors doing their best but with hollow source material. Sam Richardson is the sole exception providing the only pulse of life in the entire movie as the comic relief. J.K. Simmons also gives a valiant effort but he is onscreen so briefly his presence is rendered virtually irrelevant.
The visuals are incredibly generic, the alien design intriguing if somewhat derivative, but it is the script that is the main offender. There are innumerable inconsistencies with the internal logic of the story vis a vis technology, time travel, and the aliens. The final act 'reveal' is a blatant rip off of Aliens. And overall it is simply lifeless, a clear uninspired corporate pastiche, a copy of a copy of a middling scifi narrative.
So bland it is offensive.
Currently streaming on Amazon.
Don't See It.
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