Extremely forgettable , predictable and uninteresting
I really wanted it to be as epic as 'Independence Day' or 'War if the Worlds'.
But it wasn't.
It's fun to watch, but it's nothing special.
I regret watching this unoriginal crappy movie.
A tad overlong and some of the scenes could definitely have done with being edited down. However, it is still a fun watch, with some decent special effects, a nice sense of humour, and a good story. It's a shame this didn't receive a cinema release as it would have looked outstanding, but still good to get the opportunity to see it at home.
Superb. This goes right below The Great Wall on my list of vicious ugly MF creatures movies. Wonderful visuals, good cast, great execution of intense fights against the creatures scenes.
Enjoyed it a lot except for the on set sound recording and post processing of the dialogues audio. The over use of reverb was a little annoying especially in locations where there shouldn't be any. But that's just me, don't let that ruin the great experience.
Started off as a half decent action movie till the truly horrible third act.
Why would the government not help kill them under the ice, they were quick enough to believe 'the future people'? Just so you can have your small group of outcasts save the world? Why go through more than half of the movie to help 'the future people' and then barely use what you fought for, the toxin? Terrible writing.
Simply unbearable. A bad combo of concepts from previous works of fiction. Decades into the future, fighting swats of primal creatures/aliens (go figure that contradiction), using foot soldiers and rudimentary weapons, really? "It's not a souvenir, it's a reminder" - who writes this bull?
Also, the part where Dan Forester meets the female colonel played by Yvonne, that was a cliché of epic proportions.
Main flaw though: too long for a mediocre film.
A war following the principles of the universe, the strongest eats the weakest, ends up becoming an ode to the family.
First things first, The Tomorrow War is apparently worth $200,000, emphatically it is not. Also, it is over two hours long, it should not be. Let us be honest, this is pure popcorn, bubble-gum brain mayhem. There is no real sense to what unfolds, no real character development, no actual peril, well you do not think the ‘white spikes’ win and wipe out the human race do you?
The film feels like perhaps three films stitched together. The opening moments, whilst silly and featuring the most unrealistic football match I have ever seen from the supposed Qatar World Cup was interesting and a decent set-up. Chris Pratt is strongest at being a fairly harmless everyman, for this story he has to be ex-Special Forces in the US military, but in general is a likeable, easy-going sort of chap who is now a teacher. Incidentally, I have calculated the Special Forces in the US is a part of the US army that has roughly half-a-million troops in it at any one time. I mean ever seen a film where a military man was not in the Special Forces and a highly trained killing machine? Ever. None the less the setup to what is going to unfold is fun and kept my interest. Without spoiling the story for anyone the troops from the future are as usual rather well-fed, nicely coiffured lot that unfortunately put me in mind of actors in their first big break really acting ‘tough’ and ‘mean’ but all part of the pageant, I guess.
Next, we get a lot of time-wimey skull-buggery which all time-travel films tie themselves in knots about and if you are taking any of it seriously this utter wibble-wobble daftness is going to yank you out of your revere with the force of bungee on tensile strength of ‘eleven’ as soon as it begins.
Old farts like me have to go into the future and fight the aliens and this is also a fun part of the film as they are recruited and fight, we are treated to some good action and some great CGI and some ropey, but it whips along with death and mayhem that mainly happens to the ‘right’ people. When I say ‘like me’ I actually mean Americans, of the surviving 500, 000 people (and that really is not very many at all) appear to be exclusively from the USA. Here is where I felt the film started to get the themes and ideas mixed. We were already going doing the family dynamics, Stephen Spielberg broken family, route but also, we seem to be heading into superpatriotism as well. Replace the monsters with ‘commies’ and you have Red Dawn on steroids, everyone is heroic and only one person can save the day. The dialogue in cringeworthy and this suits these themes. For actors, I guess it is a paycheque.
Herein lies the rub for me. It is fun, daft, and full of logic-defying action and themes, which is okay. There is a worse crime being played out here, it is formulaic and a huge mishmash of ideas, themes and set pieces that have been seen over and over again and for the money spent and hype blown up are collective posteriors it is disappointing and bland.
The acting is fun, and all the actors are having fun, no one coasts but no one is going to pull a muscle either. The action is frenetic and explody with suitable horrible monsters, that go from virtually indestructible to fairly easy to kill in the space of scene and the effects and visuals overall match the content but from time to time you can see when the money started to run out.
I watched this once, I have almost forgotten about it and I will not seek it out to watch again and in the future if I channel surfed and bumped into it, I would not stick on it and finish it, mind you in the future I might be dead or running away from incredibly angry monster things. Who knows?
Enjoyable despite some glaring issues and a silly final act. The premise is kinda interesting, but it also makes no sense that they'd send people into the future to fight in the war. It would make way more sense to evacuate the future into the past, then spend 30 years working together and planning how to win the war when it eventually comes.
Excellent summertime popcorn type of movie. Just sit back and enjoy.
This movie has a little bit of everything in it, Terminator, Back to the Future, Alien, Predator, The X-Files: I Want to Believe. What's not to like?
How I rate:
1-3 :heart: = seriously! don't waste your time
4-6 :heart: = you may or may not enjoy this
7-8 :heart: = I expect you will like this too
9-10 :heart: = movies and TV shows I really love!
Not recommended at all.
I found the acting really bad.
The overall movie was long, and tedious. the storyline was ok-ish.
You would think of a better ending on some of the characters.
It reminded of 90/00 catastrophe movies that was badly shot with low budget.
2h of my.lofe that I would never get back.
Holy Macaroni Hotdog and Balloni
Think combination of "The Terminator" and "Alien" with a considerable lighter feel. The movie was by no means "funny" or even comical, but it wasn't as dark as either of the above movies. It was highly enjoyable...the full 2+ hours of it. Apart from the opening few minutes (setting the stage), it was edge-of-your-seat intense action. Granted, parts of it were predictable, but the ending was still enjoyable. Kudos to whomever did the musical score for the movie; it was great throughout. Cinematography was amazing, the lighting through the entire movie was excellent, and they didn't "hide" the creatures as some sci-fi/horror producers like to do. The alien creatures were extremely well-designed and fully visible throughout the movie...not cloaked in darkness or only half-seen in two or three scenes. The story was well done and the acting was superb. This ranks as one of the best movies I've watched in quite some time. Highly recommended!
It does exactly what you'd expect from a movie with this kind of premise to do, it entertains.
Thought it was a ton of fun. Very high concept, great action, great scifi themes.
Not sure how rewatchable it is, unlike the similarly-themed End Of Tomorrow (which I've seen a dozen times).
Sam Richardson is clearly the best part of the movie, tied maybe with Cowan aka Mr. Slice aka The Spoonman.
This is one nice movie of it's kind. Highly enjoyable and recommended movie including time travel and aliens running around with superb CGI. Apart of some small details, everything was amazing.
Tbh, I was expecting the end of the movie somehow different. When they blew up the alien ship and after a while everything was ok, I expected to see another alien ship buried somewhere else which would mess everything again. It would have provided an option for a sequel.
9/10
Edge of Tomorrow surprisingly worked. The Tomorrow War unsurprisingly didn't.
The chef left logic on the shelf when baking this cake. "What?" and "Why?" were questions I asked myself endlessly the entire movie.
Ignore the nattering naybobs of negativity, throw a couple of bags of Pop Secret in the microwave, then, sit back and enjoy a pretty good, fun Alien invasion movie. Part "Independence Day", part "War of the Worlds, with a healthy dose of "Edge of Tomorrow" thrown in just for kicks. Watch it for a bearded, "JACKED" J.K. Simmons, as the guy people are talking about when they say "I know a guy", when something shady has to be done. Watch it to see "Chloe O' Brian" back in action, rockin' a full auto P90 to save her people. Watch to see the high school science nerd finally get his due. Watch it to see a Sci Fi movie where all the brothers don't die, unless it's heroically. Watch it because all the "experts" and "critics" are throwing shade and dumping on a movie that the audience has consistently scored above 80% and praised it for being "well worth the watch". Watch it because it will be 2 years before we can see Chris Pratt in "Guardians of the Galaxy 3"
But mostly, just watch it because it's a pretty good "popcorn" movie that you really might enjoy.
Enjoyable action film but any movie that uses time travel as a plot device in its story will always be fatally flawed and this film is no exception to that rule. There is only a few movies/ shows that have implemented time travel without massive contradictions in its content.
Great action packed movie that plays off of the sci-fi classics without falling into the clichés.
You will have to turn your brain completely off for this one, but if you can then it's an alright cheesy Sci-fi movie. There are so many continuity and science errors so you'll have to go into it knowing that you just have to let them so. There's also a lot of moments where you'll say "really" but, again, just let it go and turn off that part of your brain. There is nothing really new here. The plot of this is a hodgepodge of several other films and the characters, even though they're supposed to be smart, do the most idiot things. It's like watching a bad horror movie where the person just makes one bad choice after another but you know they have to do it to make the movie work. Some of the acting is rough, but there are also a few good laugh out loud moments, even though I'm not sure all of them were intended to be funny. I suggest that if you love cheesy Sci-fi and you're willing to just go with it, bad or good, then you give this one a go. It's definitely not the worst thing to watch if you want to kill an afternoon or evening.
So barring the ridiculous time travel plot holes and that for some reason no one thought of using explosive ammunition rounds/armor piercing round as a standard for the military when it’s obvious just how useless normal bullets are against these aliens. It was a fine sci-fi action movie. Enjoyable to watch the actual action parts, but right from the start it bugged me how illogical many parts of the movie are. Also that last part of the government not helping them was beyond dumb. In the end, just too many parts irk you along the way in such an obvious manner it’s not possible to fully enjoy the movie. Visually and acting wise it was well done however.
Pretty dope flick. Think of every last sci-fi movie made in the last 30 years thrown into a blender. This is what comes out.
Amazon without a doubt is the best, movie :movie_camera: for no one to put faults. I was longing for science fiction of that level.
Another entry in the "Tomorrow" franchise.
Didn't like this one so much. Edge of Tomorrow and The Day After Tomorrow were way better. At least it was better than Tomorrowland but Tomorrow Never Dies is still my favorite movie in this series.
Solid movie, enjoyable to watch.
Kind of lazy and derivative, poor character development and fairly obvious plot.
Could have been much better, the basic idea isn't super original but offers a lot of options to work with.
DISCLAIMER: I did not see this movie in its original language(English), but in a dubbed version(Italian). I may have missed some nuances (I doubt this movie had nuances though).
I went into this movie thinking it would just be a simple, action packed movie. Not much to think about, just men versus aliens. In a sense, that's what The Tomorrow war is, but it's not a good simple movie.
But let's start with the positives first.
The CGI was absolutely marvelous. I loved it! The design of the aliens was great, very scary. The cinematography in general felt very pleasant to me, definitely a movie that's not hard on the eyes. I enjoyed the overrun buildings of the future, very well done.
The cast did an ok job, though I feel like none of them was irreplaceable. You could have substituted Chris Pratt with any other fit actor and it wouldn't have changed a thing. I liked Strahovski's performance, I'll keep an eye on her future movies.
Now, for the bad. The premise of the script wasn't terribly awful (nor terribly good, mind you), it was intriguing. But soon a myriad of plot holes start appearing and it's impossible to gloss over all of them. Why send untrained men to die in the future? Where does the money for all the deceased' family comes from (it's a lot money, given how many die every time)? And many more.
Already messing with time travel opens you up for a bunch of plot holes and loose ends, but it can be done well, or at least decently. But not here. It just gets dumber and dumber.
The enemies are also incredibly inconsistent, sometimes absorbing thousand of bullets with ease, while other times an axe is more than sufficient to take care of them. I get what they were going for, an unbeatable, unending horde, but I feel like such a powerful enemy makes the fight less entertaining for me.
All these things considered, it would have still been an ok movie. Not great, but ok. But then, the final act of the movie comes around. Why on Earth is the solution to send 5 untrained guys to the mothership, instead of a whole army group? Why does a 15 yo figures it all out? So dumb.
In the end, it could have been much better. Edge of Tomorrow did this whole theme much, much better. Go watch that if you want something with "tomorrow" in the title. This movie is only barely saved by the aliens design and the cool CGI of the action scenes.
5/10
Pretty boring action that lacks imagination and creativity, trying to compensate with CGI, quantity and by imitating other movies. All without success.
But the worst part is for sure the incredibly stupid plot. Even by genre standards.
The only decent parts are the performances of Simmons (little screen time) and Strahovski (more screen time, but only a few good scenes).
Oh my God this is a terrible terrible excuse for a film.
Okay in a predictable way till the final third and then it descended into the worst film of the year
I mean none of it made any logical sense but I wasn't really expecting any logic, but this was just plain infuriating and awful
Truly retarded and anyone who liked it is too.
Seriously, that was mean, but COME ON.... this felt like trolling. Nothing at all made even a tad of sense. Zero logic. There are so many things just terribly wrong with this I can't even be bothered to list them.
The only part that was good was the black side kick saying shit 50x's in a row. That was comedy gold right there.
This was surprisingly good. I had no doubts about the cast- Chris Pratt (who also produced), Yvonne Strahovski and JK Simmons are on my must watch list. The premise was a good take on “saving the future from the past”. The special effects where great. And, my criteria for a good action movie always includes heart and Pratt and Strahovski played it beautifully. I give this film an 8 (Great) out of 10. [Action, Adventure SciFi]
That was a lot of fun and some good action with a sense of humor and good job from chris pratt.
A great action sci-fi movie, Chris is awesome. Grab some popcorns and enjoy it this weekend.
This is an awesome movie. High octane sci-fi.
I put this one off because my expectations were low, but this was really enjoyable. The creatures were great, the varied locations made if feel epic. It borrowed a little bit of all the best of all sci-fi creature features, and stirred them around a bit.
Shitty movie with such a bad script !Like, in this time of COVID, not one government is capable of working with another one, but when a bunch of kid from the future came to help, every one send there citizen to death, no problemo. And, when they capture the mama alien, why dont they send her to the past to make the toxin with more time.
And, at last, they can't send people if you are alive at tthe arrival point, but what about the "future kid" stuck in the "present" at the end ? Will they commit suicide ? It is a genocide then ?
When you make a film about time travelling, the result is always shitty.
Longer than necessary. In 1h30 it could tell the story perfectly. Good action scenes, but the movie does not bring anything new.
The first half was completely forgettable. Like 90% of action movies, to be fair. But the second half is just plain dumb.
How much longer until we get to see Yvonne Strahovski in a movie worth of her talent? :weary:
Appalling in every respect. Its just so unbelievable that the main characters survive. Watch anything else, oh except, The settlers..
A mix of Spielberg's "War of the Worlds", John Carpenter's "The Thing" and "Battle of Los Angeles", plus a time travel element thrown in for good measure.
I hate to say this but it's a turn-off-your-brain kind of movie. There's some good effects, some not so good effects, and a cornball family story. Chris Pratt is good in the lead role. It's very predictable and characters do dumb things that create suspense. The last act features some absurd action and is overloaded by hero moments. All those negative things aside, I did enjoy it for the popcorn movie that it is.
So my first thought is; no wonder they are losing the war. The people being sent to the future are civilians with less than a week of training. That means no physical or mental conditioning, no muscle memory, no tactics, no strategy, no real weapons training, nothing... wow... just, wow... they should be training a hundreds of thousands of people while they send through a thousand a week so that once those hundred thousand are well trained they can send them through as rapidly as possible. None of this once a week B.S.
My second thought; after 12 months they would have sent all data back to 2022 so that you could have all the smart people of the current population working on how to kill the aliens instead of the few remaining smart people in 2051. I mean really, use the population to your advantage. 8 billion people living in relative peace vs 500 thousand that are barely surviving... hmm... I am betting the 8 billion people can learn what they need to know while 52 thousand are sent to the future to be spike sponges. It isn't like we don't already know this is a divergent timeline. If they know when people die and use that as their selection criteria and those people die on 2051, then 2051 is not the same future that 2022 now has. So suck up the loss of 500 thousand people and train 8 billion people from 2022 forward to fight the war. This is basically the plan in the end, but it should have been the plan 12 months before that.
Third, these aliens are formidable, but it isn't like they are so formidable as to be able to repel the various militaries of the world. Their real advantage seems to be numbers since we saw a 50 cal take one apart with a couple of shots. Aircraft, tanks, APVs, ships, etc. should be able to obliterate these aliens... and speaking of sheer numbers, after they have fed on all but 500 thousand people, what is their food source? There are way too many to exist on the remaining population.
Honorable mention, the fact that the aliens are only vulnerable on their soft bellies should have been relayed while handling out the guns. "Here's your gun, aim for the belly." The incompetence of the future solders is staggering. Of particular note is that they send fighters in the level Miami. Where are all the bombers? Send in a B-52 and carpet bomb Miami. Fighters dropping a few dozen or so bombs is just pathetic. A single B-52 carries up to 51 bombs. The F-35 carries a max of 16 bombs. Big difference. And since the aliens don't seem to have much in the way of air superiority, sending a few slow moving bombers in should be no big deal. Also, since the aliens are ground-based. Why the hell don't the helicopters fly up when the get the female? Don't leave anything to chance by staying low where you can be attacked. Dumbasses.
So this movie is getting a sequel, but not Live Die Repeat.
Life is just not fair.
Also, what a generic 'Hollywood' title. What's even more generic is that Chris Pratt's character is a family man who's saving the world because he loves his wife and daughter. I honestly want to see a movie where the action hero hates his family and goes on the mission just to get away from them.
Decent summer evening scifi flick. To truly enjoy it though you need to engage your inner Pratt and not think about it too much.
Monsters/visuals look cool, but nothing can save this movie from the incredible stupidity and plot holes in this film. The more you think about it… the dumber it gets.
Like an Instagram influencer, it looks good but when it speaks you see how shallow it is.
This is literally just a dumb imperialist propaganda movie for Americans. Why do they even make these movies, seriously, why? Don't Americans have enough material to masturbate to? Apparently not, they need more porn for incels.
The American blockbuster is the worst thing to happen to the art of filmmaking. Hollywood is a bunch of phonies making movies with the same story over and over and over again. Every three months someone is destroying Earth, and Americans are defending it. THE WORLD AND HUMANITY IS AT STAKE BUT AMERICANS WILL SAVE US!!!!
The Tomorrow War is as boring and uninteresting as any other US military propaganda movie. Seriously, there is nothing original here, it's offensive how generic this is. The movie is full of cliches, plot holes and contrivances, every single character lacked any sort of depth or personality. Russia is the evil land for harboring aliens and Americans save the day. Sounds familiar? I'm waiting for the day when the Yanks make a movie about how they saved the world from COVID, but in their universe the virus would originate in .... you guessed it ... Russia :flag_ru: because it's not PC to say China. :flag_cn:
If Chris Pratt loves soldiering so much, maybe he should enlist. Luckily for him, US is involved in so many wars.
Watch for mindless entertainment. Don’t even bother trying to question the logic because there is none. I still can’t believe a bunch of successful movie creators got together & thought this was a good idea.
Hold on. Just hold on.
You're telling me, you're told THIRTY YEARS in advance WHERE an alien invasion that killed around 6.5 BILLION humans will start and your only idea is to... Send more humans to the future to fight them? If they killed almost all of mankind, why sending more humans will help, exactly?
You'd have 30 years of R&D to figure out how to kill them. The people from the future would have brought back DNA or whatever to help. And if not, build a fucking wall with flamethrowers and .50 CAL turrets and Napalm and... Ugh, this premise is so bad it makes no sense whatsoever.
Also apparently, in the future there's no grenade.
Why would they bomb city where, for some stupid reason, is the only lab with vials that can save humanity's future? Can't it wait a day or two? The city is ALREADY overrun anyway.
Why does the Colonel have to be his daughter? If she knows it's the final mission, and she can summon whoever she wants (the film establishes this), why not bring some crazy good Delta Force or Seal Team Six crew instead of a bunch of helpless civilians? I get that they need cannon fodder but come on, for this one fucking mission bring some people who actually know what they're doing.
This is a really bad movie. My suspension of disbelief went through the window more times than I can count.
E: I'm not even going to address how all of this is a big stupid Time Paradox because that's not even the worst part of the movie, which says a lot.
Great movie, from the 1st contact with aliens it’s a trill ride. The CGI is really good, the aliens are mean as hell, and it all blends well with time travel and a story of family. If you have a great audio system, crank it up!
It was heartfelt and packed with action with some laughs here and there. It was better than I expected it to be.
Silly premise, decent brainless action and sci-fi mix, and a glorious buffed up bearded badass J.K. Simmons.
good divertissement but not so great piece of the seven art
One of the coolest things about this movie is, seems so cool to fight a war with your future daughter. That being said, why are you making a fuss about taking the toxin back and saving your present which saves your daughter anyway. Who gives a shit what happens to the future world.
How much bullets do these rifles have in one clip :joy:
Damn it just leave her who cares, the priority is the vial. “You need to make sure this never happens” EXACTLY!!! Hide until the jump you idiot. Im so sock of this lets stop during a war to have a “i’m not leaving you” talk.
Can we talk about her risking the human race jumping for her last minute and even potentially crushing the vial :man_facepalming_tone3:
What do you mean send the vial back lol that was never the plan, is he dumb?
Offff course the Government would be a roadblock first chance they got, we will be the death of our own race not an alien, talking about taxpayers money when you literally have the biggest military budget and now that they need the back up you still make excuses
“Conspiracy Santa” :joy:
I would have cut the throat of anything i cross thats frozen or otherwise, not taking a chance something wakes up.
If you killed everything in the ship, there would be no way for the female to populate so why chase it
Holy shit that thing is like a centipede, hard to kill, he just jumps on the back of a running creature. Ok sure lol
Despite the bad writing a d inconsistencies at times it was a good movie. That one family saved the entire plant, daughter in the future and dad in the present with the help of his team of course. :clap_tone3:
Watched it in two parts. First part was boring and silly. Second part was excellent, but still silly. Yvonne acted very well and Pratt was pretty good. Great sound design!
It’s not the best movie ever story wise. But I enjoyed it anyway.
I enjoyed the momentary "global warming made the aliens come out to play" spin, that was cute and almost believable (lol, i'm joking). However, the movie was unnecessarily long and painfully contradictory.
Causal loop blatantly ignored? Or utilised for a nasty unsuspecting surprise at the end, that humanity doesn't actually win and in fact caused the whole "war" in the first place:
In giving Dan the toxin to take back to the past Muri has already ensured the survival of the human species, which means that everyone's future in 2051 would differ from what it looked like when they fought the aliens, because (wait for it) there would be no aliens to fight after the first wave got eliminated by the toxin, thereby nullifying the need to make the toxin in the first place...
Unlesssss all goes as it does, BUT some of the white spikes (or even just one pregnant female) escaped... which would mean that Dan and the others actually opened Pandora's box when they found the ship and went down to "eliminate the threat" (a threat that might not have been, at least for a few more decades maybe or however long it might take for to the ice to melt #global warming) had they not disturbed the hornets nest in the first place)... which would logically explain Muri telling Dan about how he becomes despondent in his natural timeline, annnnd cue infinite unwitting repeated failed attempts to save the world from a problem he created (off screen causal loop).
In any case, post credit speculation has no part in great filmmaking.
Also, just to be extra petty, why did it sound like that lying pos William Dodd said, "Bo-endo Saris"?! I knew what he meant (Buenos Aires) after the second replay, but repeated it maybe 8 times just to see if it would eventually sound more like what it is, LOLOLOLOL nope! Oh gawd, at least I got a chuckle out of it all. lol wooh, ha! Anyone else?
I am absolutely certain this script was written by GPT-3. I can't think of an excuse for the director though.
Just watch Edge of Tomorrow instead. It is a much better movie with a more reasonable script compared to this mess.
World of disaster and check that this thing looks good. Absolutely got it right the first time.
The plot was (is) basic, I know, I was expecting the special effects, acting and action scenes to be mildly good ... I was wrong.
This movie is not worth wasting time, there are many better ones in the same genre.
This was pretty stupid in a lot of ways. But unless a lot of other stupid popcorn movies I was entertained :)
Interesting enough. The time travel stuff didn't make too much sense to me but everthing else was pretty neat. Liked the monster designs. Wish someone would try to think of some new monster sounds though. I feel like these days every movie monster either clicks or growls.
I'm sorry but this just feels like a political agenda dressed up to be a SciFi movie. That final act revealing that with the polar ice caps melting, "we don't know what we could wake up or reveal".... just felt too much like something an "activist" or politician pitched to a movie producer...
An okay but overlong first act setup is followed by a solid and action-packed second act, which in turn is followed by a meltdown of epic proportions. Everything about the setup to that climactic covert mission ts beyond stupid. Every single thing. They. Have. The. Toxin. Sadly, they also have a false and almost laughable sense of urgency because...well, DRAMA!!! Between that and the trite epilogue, this thing really limps to the finish line. The only reason why I'm grading it slightly above average is because the second act, in particular, is so entertaining. But that third act? It would get one star, and only because I can't give it zero.
It's one of the worst screenplays I've ever seen.
The only coherent part is the spaceship that appears at the end. Still, they manage to screw it up too, get into Russia undetected with an old plane?
Time travel with an unknown technology and an unknown source of energy.
Horrible movie, don't waste your time with this basophy.
It starts as another recurring "time-travel, sci-fi movie with an balanced dose of action and couldn't manage to be a good movie for handful of reasons" kind of a movie. Goes in that way too not gonna lie. Chris Pratt's acting made pretty much %90 of my 6 point. Other %10 goes to csar and spec-ops elements in the movie (good for my personal taste).
Laughed out loud in bunch of scenes 'cause they didn't make any sense. Felt like watching Fast & Furious or some other ridiculously-actioned movie with some total non-sense of scenes. Some logical errors on the way and going the easy and usual way of story telling which comes to me as lazy and bad in 2021. Can be watched but you wouldn't lose anything if you don't.
For sure this isn't in the category of "unwatchable". But it is one of those sci-fi-action flicks where you have to suspend belief and logic. And depending on what you expected you might enjoy it or not. It can be that simple.
They borrow pretty much from every major sci-fi franchise of the last couple decades. Most notable Alien, Starship Troopers and Terminator. The whole stuff about Forester's character and his relationship with his father and daughter seems like an apendix to the story that doesn't want to gel with the rest. There just isn't any emotional investment or connection to begin with for me to care at all. Which pretty much only adds runtime to an already too long movie.
I actually like the idea that those ship crashed centuries ago and therefore no one could discover them in the present when they "arrived". But the implication they got out because of global warming and in effect killed humanity is a little to tongue-in-cheek for my liking. Like I said, if you start to pick at the story it falls apart rather easy.
So, if you have an afternoon, or evening, to spare, grab maybe a beer ond some snacks and take it for what it is.
Comment 1: I’ll.never get past Yvonne Strahovski being Serena Joy.
Comment 2: Movies like this are why people don’t believe in climate change.
This movie is quite a mess. It starts like Starship Troopers and then makes some very rediciolus choices and becomes Alien VS Predator..
Overall watchable, but it's not good. And it's too long for itself.
they managed to create more toxins somehow but had no support for their trip so they flew by themselves all the way to fkn Siberia and crashed the plane on the snow! OK!! And thank God they had that school kid to save the world...
Btw Hollywood over compensation: all actors accept leads are Black.. why not just make it natural..
The tomorrow I wanna forget.
predictable pants. kids film.
It's like a Roland Emmerich movie without the plethora of unbelievable near deaths,. Still a lot of 'they didn't get killed by that massive fireball' scenes
The aliens look alright.
Another Sunday afternoon, whilst eating dinner movie.
Steals from starship troopers, independence Day, the thing. But lacks anything that made them great.
every other line in the first 15mins is a setup to a later solution.
Oh and Betty Gilpin is just wasted playing the standard wifey.
I'm not gonna say anything about the FUCKING PARADOXICAL SITUATION!!!
I kind of enjoyed it, but it was pretty much just Starship Troopers with no boobies.
Predicted the cause within the first few minutes of the movie. They made it too obvious with the timeline, the climate imagery in the school, the digging, and the fact that the aliens just appeared one day without a grand entrance. The film was also rife with the characters making painfully obvious mistakes and illogical choices so the plot could go on longer. BUT it was still a fun action movie. The fam might even enjoy it a second time better, after getting the yelling at the screen out of our systems.
From start to finish one of the dumbest movies I watched in a long time.
The premise is only 5s interesting, before you start to think about it. Thinking is overall the problem. Cannot recommend while watching. Almost no point in this world is thought through. Like a 15-year-old wrote the script. One bad decision of the characters after the other. They cannot decide how the timestuff works, but not like other movies. It's like they've not even tried.
It hurt while watching.
Just a tiny bit of this flawed world they created: If you know where they appear, when they jump in time, and you know they fall 1-2m. Every time. Wouldn't you put some mattresses at ´that place? They don't they stand beside and watch them hitting the concrete floor with their faces. And if you assume that it would kinda like the first time, then you would probably protect the future of your world in a glass! test tube, than in your hand. Maybe your body decides to use that hand to smooth the hit.
The basic idea isn't bad, but it got turned into a pretty good mindless and predictable action slugfest. With a lot less time spent shooting or exploding things, and instead invested in developing the actual story in a sane way, this might have been a petty good movie. Who knows, maybe the original script actually was good before it got "fixed".
In this state, it's mindless alien action thing no one will ever remember. It like the original independence day, but a lot worse, and that had Jeff Goldblum, who was actually funny. Chris Pratt got wasted on this, he was just terrible in this.
Makes me more appreciative that we’re (eventually) getting a sequel to Edge of Tomorrow.
Mehh, not too good. Starship Troopers was more entertaining to me.
It's a nice movie if you don't think too hard. Or at all. Don't think when you watch this movie and it's pretty good. I hadn't seen any trailers or read anything about this movie beforehand so I went in completely blind. I was pleasantly surprised at the budget Amazon put in for this movie; it's definitely huge summer blockbuster type stuff. The monsters and CGI all look really cool, and they didn't hold back on the set design. That being said, the number of plot holes in this movie is almost impressive. Actually, nope, I'm definitely impressed at how LITTLE realistic substance is actually in this movie. "But it's a sci-fi with time travel and aliens--" NO, I'm gonna stop you right there. You can have time travel and aliens and still acknowledge that if someone is falling hundreds of feet into a rooftop swimming pool, they're probably not going to survive, and you see that in the frickin' trailer. If you're expecting something that will really get your mind turning, The Tomorrow War will at most make your mind turn OFF. But hey, Chris Pratt looks good, right?
i definitely didn't expect to enjoy this movie this much! :)
You need to lave now. You have to move, Dan. You need to get out of there, Dan. Dan, get out of there. DAN YOU NEED TO MOVE NOW! (Literally as the characters are running away from the drop zone)
Alright movie, terrible script.
Yeah! These Aliens are savage and should not be messed around with! So immediately it became clear to both me and my husband (which is saying something because he hardly picks up on any plot points) that Dan would end up meeting his daughter in the future plus having to watch her die and at the point in the movie where she actually dies I thought 'well how are they going to fill up the rest?' because it seemed pretty much done. Those big blockbusters would make this into a trilogy or something but they didn't and that's good because now you have this one movie that has a nice pacing, no filler dialogue or whatever. You jump right back into the action and it made for such a nice ending especially since now Dan gets to create a new future for himself and his family.
I watched the Netflix movie 'Awake' a week before this and it was garbage compared. Of course these two are very different in that this had aliens and the other doesn't but both create a world in which there is a large threat to humanity and in Awake they explained it all away poorly whereas here they delivered a solid plot that could work, that makes me think 'huh, well yeah, maybe this could happen in the future'.
This movie has everything I like. Aliens, time travel and humor. Why not a 10? Because I feel like at the beginning of the movie you are introduced to some characters only so they'd leave some sort of feeling when they die.
[Amazon] A shaker of cinematic references that is sometimes agile and sometimes awkwardly mediocre. Better in the "Starship Troopers" part than in the "Alien 2" part, but the whole is scattered, more interested in bringing together all the possible Sci-Fi movies than in having narrative coherence. The entertaining moments are mixed with the boredom of the father-daughter plot, the fireworks are disappointing.
When you see ripped JK simmons ready for it, you're in. Yes, even if he's not the main guy. Chris Pratt did a pretty good job though, it never felt like too much, he was really good. I would say this move was quite awesome.
Not bad at all. Terrifying monster design, crisp action, standout performance by Strahovsky keep it afloat despite it being twenty minutes too long. A decent intense sci-fi action flick to tickle your senses.
The Tomorrow War is another unoriginal,
transcribed alien invasion action-thriller that sets no new benchmarks in the sci-fi genre. With a shorter runtime and tighter screenplay, the movie with its underlying ode to fatherhood could have impacted more than it did. But nevertheless, thanks to charming Chris Pratt , spectacular action set pieces, stunning VFX, and humongous production value which make this one a perfect amazon release for the weekend popcorn flick.
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VFX on steroids. nice. 7.5/10
Enjoyable, action packed movie with good cgi. Of course many plot holes in the time travel that had me not caring for the emotional parts of the movie. I could care less about the father and daughter goodbye scene because all I could say is, what a waste of time this is since she hasn't even been born yet and if he saves the world everything will be fine. And the guy with cancer, what? they couldn't find a happy ending for him? It's 28 years in the future, are you telling me there's no cure for cancer yet. I guess all that money I donated to find a cure went to good use. I might think of more to say later. Good movie though...
Maybe a heavy-handed global warming harbinger of climate doom analogy? Probably. Good movie, though. Who doesn't love the cast?
The Tomorrow War is a solid action movie with few missteps. The CGI monsters are clear and not hidden constantly by shadows. The narrative is mostly pretty reasonable requiring just a little mental bending and not a huge about of stretching. And completely off topic this is one of the only roles I've seen Yvonne Strahovski in where I actually recognize her.
My biggest complaint about the movie is actually the comedy. It's not that they blend it poorly with the action. As a matter of fact they blend it so well I wish there was more of it. It feels at points a bit jarring to suddenly find yourself have a nice chuckle. I kinda wanted more of it to feel more even.
The time travel here is at least consistent. A lot of things can be handled wrong with time travel but for something that's mostly there to be part of the location rather than part of the narrative it basically works. There's a few unanswered questions like how and why it was created which are less important in comparison to why go back to this year and not another year which is mostly explained by the desperation in the future. I would have been interesting though to have multiple time boats and have part of the plot involve people meeting their ancestors (or grandparents who died) because they all got to fight the war of the future.
Three's a few twists and turns and more importantly they didn't use the callback that I expected. The scene with the kid who wanted to talk about ancient volcanoes felt like a throwaway humor and the scene where Dan and his daughter Muri were digging in the dirt for the vaccine felt poignant. So when it came down to the final solution, locating the poison that would kill them , I of course was expecting them to dig in the dirt and poop for it maybe metaphorically somehow. Turns out they did nothing of the sort and instead they turned to that first scene for the callback when trying to actually apply the solution.
I had a good time the action was mostly clean and easy to follow, Pratt occupies a sort of unique spot as a leading man and I feel that they could have used the range he brings a little better but I already mentioned the humor. The final punch of the movie takes place on a cliff which is fine but I would have liked to have known it was on a cliff. The visuals were so distorted when that punch was thrown and the fall down the cliff happened I was surprised they were at the cliff. Previously in that fight they actually did a fairly good job of revealing the immediate geography which considering the digetic conditions was impressive, almost unbelievable but at that point you're already invested.
Boy the wah wah wah factor continues to rise during the streaming era, the amounts of complains about this movie that are getting those thumb ups are astounding since this movie was honestly pretty damn good. People are far too picky these days, I always dodge reviews with words like "Cliché" and "Dull" in them because too many times they end up just being people who have seen thousands on thousands of movies and have just grown bored with anything and everything new.
This movie worked on every level it intended to, and reminded me of those classic movies you'd watch back in the day a dozen times because they were fun to watch and were movies that were easy to understand but deep enough to not be cartoonish. It's why films like Independence Day were so watched and so many people could recite the lines, and still remember the scenes, but then you'll have some shitty 3 and a half hour long samurai movie from the 50's in the "top 20 movies of all time" on the imdb list. Internet critics and actual paid critics have the same thing in common, a complete burn out from watching too many things, and not enjoying the very enjoyable movies like this one that come along because they follow a formula or don't send a woke enough message. Go watch whatever artsy fartsy new crap is out and get outa here whiners.
Sometimes, cliché as it may be, a movie is just good, and this movie is just that.
Best! Finally a great sci fi. 200million :thumbsup:
Typical alien invasion movie.. a tiny bit better than the norm. One thing no movie ever addresses is - how did the freaky aliens' manage to build that spacecraft? How could they dig the mine that brought up the ore to smelt and shape into metal and then assemble?
This film is full of holes and questions that I can't believe SOMONE somewhere didn't ask - Why? How? and That makes no sense whatsoever!!
5.5/10
trying to find something to watch? this movie will not let you down. action-packed from start to finish. Chris Pratt was amazing, sexy too but amazing.
Mindless, no brainer and no logic alien-action movie
Visually excessive but worth it in almost every big sequence, and there's a lot. I liked a few of the characters, but the comedy could've been better, and the horror when it wasn't actionpacked was fine. It's unforgettable and excessive. Unforgettable for its excessive runtime, cgi, acting, and plot switching. It lost me toward the end, and I was shocked it still went on. The drama and emotional side was what this needed to feel somewhat grounded, but the dialogue was unbearable at times. Decent flick if you're looking for something loud and proud.
I will rate this movie alien shitass antidote/10
There is no doubt that the movie is great, but it would have been better if it was shorter
Shout by tpasi2020UGBlockedParent2021-07-02T11:49:21Z
If you are a syfi and action movie fanatic this is for you. Some comedy scenes were not funny some actors did not belong in this movie. All in all this is not the worst movie of 2021. Watchable.