Incoherent due to gaps in the text
“Tomorrow’s War” is lost in the ideas of films of the past
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A lot of sci-fi movies want to line up with the classics, like Alien, Terminator and Predator, and although aspects of The Tomorrow War are borrowed from the classics with Independence Day spices and Interstellar elements, they're cooked or blended Incorrectly, the result was this lousy movie.
The film, produced by Amazon Studios' "Prime Video", employs recurring themes in science fiction, such as alien attacks and time travel, in a way that would be interesting if treated better, but the treatment method is more like swallowing food and then vomiting it!
Or giving information and repeating it badly and without thinking.
The film begins next year 2022, and we see the characters of the film following one of the World Cup matches that will be held in Qatar, the camera moves from the place where the characters meet to the TV screen to watch a counterattack!
Moving the camera in such a crude way from the faces of the characters to the stadium, means for the poor experienced viewer that something will happen and the counterattack will stop, and this is what actually happens and very poor special effects appear, similar to those used by Robert Zemeckis in the films “Back to the Future” 35 years ago.
The match stops and soldiers appear in the stadium saying that they are from the year 2051, and that they have discovered an inflexible way to travel to the past, connecting only the years 2022 and 2051.
A question worth asking and the film does not answer: Why do future soldiers ask for military support from their comrades, past or present for the film, or the very near future for us, and not trying to change history to avoid human extinction?
Writer Zack Dean and director Chris McKay may have sensed that such an idea would be a blind imitation of the Terminator, but at the same time it's closer to the logic of the movie than its stupid idea.
One of the problems with this film is the laziness of the script writer in coming up with ideas that challenge the intelligence of the audience and being satisfied with what frequently underestimates their minds.
Dan Forster (Chris Pratt) is selected to join the Army of the Future Research Department because of his experience as a soldier, which makes him a natural leader, after bidding farewell to his wife, Amy (Betty Gilpin) and daughter, Murray (Ryan Keira Armstrong), in a scene not without the vulgarity of the films Day Independence", and Dan is involved in a seven-day war in the future.
The man finds himself in the midst of a war storm, he escapes from it and is brought to consult with the military commander of the area in which he is, and the commander is named Murray Forster (Australian Yvonne Strovsky), meaning his daughter!
In a scene in which the experienced viewer feels that he wants to cry pity for himself from the torment of being subjected to merciless waves of vulgarity.
Mori lectures her father about his bad behavior in her past, or the future for him, because he knows nothing of what she is talking about, and enlists him to help her in the mission: to develop a weapon (a serum) to eliminate aliens.
It was said in the past that it is easy not to master time travel films, and difficult to make them in an impressive manner. If we take this famous saying as a balance, this film is not perfect at all, and the story loses its credibility because the filmmakers did not think about the details of the film well.
The film is insanely incoherent, and it cannot be accepted and stop the mechanism of disbelief in our minds just because it is science fiction. The text gaps are many and cannot be ignored. Moreover, the film presents smart ideas such as the possibility of changing the future, and then ignores them provocatively to focus on action.
Since 1979, the ideas of Swiss artist HR Giger have dominated all science fiction films featuring aliens in their stories, and this artist was the main inspiration for the iconic alien form, which appeared in Ridley Scott's classic Alien 41 years ago.
The aliens in “War of Tomorrow” are designed as a hybrid of Alien and Predator with some simple additions, their shape is okay, but they fail the test of authenticity, their solidity decreases with the progress of the film, and this is normal, as every movie about a conflict between humans and aliens triumphs at the end because they They discover the alien's weakness, but up until this point the movie hasn't dealt with it well, as in the final scene we see Chris Pratt punching the most powerful of these creatures with his hands, the same creature who was unaffected by being shot at first.
The film features all-too-familiar faces of supporting characters, such as Sam Richardson (from Veep) and Mary Lynne Ryskop (she's appeared in half of the American series since 1995), before disappearing here in "heroic" scenes.
The second half of the film sees elements from 1982's The Thing, a classic science fiction directed by John Carpenter, and here the "War of Tomorrow" turns into a war of recycling spent ideas from films of the past to the point of boring, and of course there is discussion of making a sequel to a story that is over!
about the movie
Director Chris McKay and lead Chris Pratt, previously worked on The Lego Movie in 2014.
Yvonne Strofsky and Mary Lynn Rayskop, participated in the famous American series "24", and shared the screen in its ninth season in 2014.
• One of the problems of this film is the laziness of the script writer to come up with ideas that challenge the audience's intelligence, and to be satisfied with what frequently underestimates their minds.
• The film presents smart ideas, such as the possibility of changing the future, and then ignores them provocatively to focus on action.
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