Part « The Terminator » turned upside down, part « Starship Troopers, » « The Tomorrow War » is the latest Paramount sci-fi/action movie redirected from theaters to streaming by the pandemic.
Pratt plays the ordinary guy thrust into futuristic heroism, in a film that puts his franchise-tested charisma as part of « Jurassic World » and Marvel’s Chris contingent to the test. A veteran working as a science teacher, Pratt’s Dan Forester is as shocked as the rest of the world when soldiers from 2051 arrive, announcing that Earth’s population is being eradicated by an alien invasion in their time. The monsters are fast, relentless and ugly, and in order to save the 500,000 people left on the planet, humanity’s future needs warriors from the present in order to fight alongside them. The plan leads to the implementation of a worldwide draft, which shakes the social order and sweeps up Dan among Earth’s understandably anxious defenders. Dan is introduced as a father and husband with dreams of doing more, telling his young daughter — in one of several lines that’s a little too on the nose — « I am meant to do something special with my life.
