The Tomorrow War
2021
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Director: Chris McKay
Cast: Chris Pratt, Yvonne Strahovski, J.K. Simmons, Betty Gilpin, Sam Richardson, Edwin Hodge, Jasmine Mathews, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Keith Powers, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Theo Von
As humanity is losing a war against deadly alien creatures in 2051, soldiers from the future travel back in time to 2021 to recruit more troops. One of them is Dan Forester, a high school teacher and former soldier, who leaves his family but ends up fighting alongside his grown-up daughter. Zach Dean's intriguing yet unoriginal script borrows elements from Edge of Tomorrow, Starship Troopers, Interstellar, and The Thing, among others. However, what Chris McKay's science-fiction action spectacle most resembles is Transformers, an utterly incomprehensible, incredibly boring, infernally loud, and seemingly endless serving of CGI-heavy action without a single properly drawn character. The future humans are not terribly smart either, as they continue to take on the overpowering and impervious aliens in hand-to-hand combat with conventional weapons.
