If you’ve seen one “Alien” face-to-face shot, you’ve seen a hundred.
“THE TOMORROW WAR” Rated PG-13. On Amazon. Grade: C+ It’s tomorrow all over again. “The Tomorrow War” from executive producer and leading man Chris Pratt, director Chris McKay (“The Lego Batman Movie”) and writer Zach Dean (“24 Hours to Live”) cues up every alien invasion movie trope you’ve ever seen, and somehow makes them less interesting or exciting than they were the 20th time you’ve encountered them. Pratt is Dan Forester, “ordinary” high school biology teacher, Iraq combat veteran, husband and father of Muri aka Chickpea (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) in 2021. Dan is a loser who fails to land a better job and is alienated from his beardo loner Vietnam veteran father James (J.K. Simmons), a seeming conspiracy theorist. Dan’s wife Emmy (Betty Gilpin in a truly thankless role) and Muri are his whole world. But after time travelers appear from 2051 to tell of a future alien invasion, Dan is drafted to fight 30 years in the future against marauding four-legged aliens known as White Spikes, presumably because of their color and the spikes they fire from their tentacles when they aren’t voraciously devouring humans with their giant maws and rows of fang-like teeth.
