The Tomorrow War Is Imperfect But It's The Kind Of Movie Hollywood Needs

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How is it possible for a work of art to make no choices, break no new ground, accomplish truly nothing, and attempt even less, but still provide a helpful guide to the future of cinema? By being released into a Hollywood culture that will keep making the same mistake forever.

Nine of the top ten highest-grossing films of 2021 were sequels, spin-offs, or entries in massive franchises. Four Marvel movies, a James Bond sequel, a Ghostbusters revival, A Quiet Place II,F9, and Venom: Let There be Carnage all come to the list from their own empires. The lone original film, Ryan Reynolds' Free Guy, is weighed down with ceaseless video game references. Even it is still wholly based around other works' name recognition.

The Tomorrow War Sequel Already In The Works At Amazon And Skydance

The Tomorrow War is the story of Dan Forrester, portrayed by Chris Pratt who neatly packs every popular criticism of his work into this one film, a teacher and former soldier. Suddenly a time portal opens up in the middle of the World Cup and a detachment of futuristic soldiers explains that an alien invasion is on its way. They go on to explain that their plan to battle the menace is to recruit a new crop of soldiers from the relatively recent past. How a sudden increase in fodder would aid mankind in defeating the alien menace remains to be seen as the first recruits are immediately and easily slaughtered.

Dan finds himself added to the effort despite his wife's protests and joins the battle against the hostile visitors. The film takes great pains to establish its efforts to avoid the typical time-travel movie foibles but winds up sidestepping a pothole to fall off a cliff. What follows is a plodding mess of uninspired action that goes on for far