I recently watched a movie on Prime video called The Tomorrow War.
Being a fan of science fiction, I was totally enthralled by the
scenario. Great story! I thought the acting was well done, in
addition to the extremely realistic special effects. Overall, I gave
it a 10 out or 10! Let me tell you about it......
The Tomorrow War is a Amazon Original Movie that was released in
2021. It was supposed to be released to theaters, but because of
Covid, it was decided to release it straight to Prime Video. It was
the most streamed movie on Prime Video in 2021, and a sequel is in the
works!
Main Cast
Chris Pratt as Dan Forester
Yvonne Strahovski as Colonel Muri Forester
J.K. Simmons as James Forester
Betty Gilpin as Emmy Forester
Sam Richardson as Charlie
Jasmine Mathews as Lt. Hart
Edwin Hodge as Dorian
Ryan Kiera Armstrong as Young Muri Forester
Short Summary
The world is shocked when a group of soldiers, armed to the teeth, appear
in the middle of the World Cup to tell the world that in 30 years the earth
will be invaded by a hostile alien species. The soldiers are from the
future and have come to ask for our help to turn the tide of the war that
they are badly losing against the vicious invaders.
They want to bring people from our time to the future to help fight.
A world draft is instituted and Dan Forester, an ex Green Beret is drafted
to go and help save the human race. What Dan finds in the future is
stunning, but it is nothing compared to what he finds when comes back
home.
The Trailer:
The below synopsis contains spoilers, please skip if you don't want to
know!
Detailed Plot Synopsis
In December 2022 former Green Beret Dan Forester and his wife and daughter
are having a home Christmas party. Everyone is watching the World Cup
when a disturbance happens on the field and a group of heavily armed
soldiers appear out of nowhere. They announce that in the year 2048
hostile aliens, called Whitespikes, invade Earth and start killing every
living thing on the planet. For them that was three years ago and now
the population of the Earth is almost gone. The soldiers have come
back into the past to ask for help defending our world before the human race
becomes extinct.
A worldwide draft is initiated and within a year Dan is drafted.
Upon arrival at the draft office he finds that the term of service is only
seven days, but only 30% of people make it back. The people drafted
are sent in with weapons, but almost no training. Another thing Dan
finds strange is that they do not show the draftees a picture of the
enemy.
Dan and his fellow draftees are sent through a device called the Jumplink
to the year 2051, but due to a glitch in the system, they are transported
to the wrong location high above a skyscraper and the only people that
survive are the ones that had the luck to land in the swimming pool on the
roof. Luckily Dan and a couple of his newly made friends do, along
with a few others, and they are radioed by Colonel Forester to proceed to
a laboratory downtown and to rescue a group of scientists and a toxin they
are working on to kill the Whitespikes. While on the way to the lab, the
draftees finally get a look at the aliens and it quickly becomes clear why
they don't show anyone pictures. The Whitespikes are the stuff of
nightmares!
Upon arrival at the lab, the scientists were dead, but Dan is able
to find a dozen vials of the toxin. While trying to flee from
the city, the group is besieged by Whitespikes and all but Dan and
two of his friends are killed. An explosion saves them and
they wake up in the Dominican Republic in a military camp
hospital. When Dan meets the camp commander, he is shocked to
find it is his grown daughter Muri. Happy to see her, he is
puzzled and hurt at her cold attitude and refusal to speak of the
past.
Muri explains that they need to capture the female Whitespike, who is
like a queen bee. After they capture the queen, and transport her to
a lab on an oil rig they find that the toxin that kills the males does not
work on the female, so work begins on finding a variant that will.
When they finally find a workable toxin to kill the female, the male
Whitespikes flood the base to free the female. During the fight,
Muri gets wounded by a poisonous spike and just as she and Dan begin to
connect, his seven day term of service comes to an end. As he is
about to transport back to the past, his daughter gives him a vial of the
toxin and tells him to mass produce it in the past so they can be ready to
use it in 2048.
Back in his own time, Dan tries to give the toxin to the government to
produce so he can go back to the future and distribute it when he finds
out that the future Jumplink was on the oil rig that was overrun with
Whitespikes and damaged so it was no longer functional. The world
goes into panic thinking the loss of the Jumplink means the future war was
lost.
Dan and his wife try to figure out where the Whitespikes come from, and
they formulate that maybe they didn't come to earth in 2048, maybe they
were already here all along. Since they were first seen around a
glacier on Komsomolets Island in Russia, Dan decides that would be the
first place to look. After drafting his two friends Charlie and
Dorian from his future group, they go to see Dan's dad, James, who is a
prepper and conspiracy theorist. Of course, James knows
someone with a plane who can fly them to Russia where they find the
crashed space ship. They deduce it has been there for over a
thousand years. After finding half a dozen compartments with frozen
Whitespikes, they realize that this was where the "invasion" came
from. They were here all along, frozen in the ice.
They begin injecting the Whitespikes with the toxin and it quickly kills
them, but also wakes up the others and the mission devolves into a vicious
fight to kill the aliens before they escape and start the war early.
They plant explosives to blow up the ship which manages to kill the rest
of the males, but the one female gets loose and leaves the ship running
out into the snow. Dan and his father go after her in an all out
battle which they finally win and kill her.
Conclusion
I really liked this movie. If you like science fiction, I believe
you will too. It is more than just a shoot 'em up alien war
movie. The connection between the Forester family members is quite
complex with interactions I didn't include in the synopsis. (I
can't tell you everything!) I also loved that it had a happy
ending! I highly recommend this movie!
Unfortunately, this movie can only be seen on Amazon Prime, and cannot be purchased on Amazon. I have had Prime for years and find it to be more than worth the $139 a year. A full Movie channel and free shipping on all orders along with other perks......definitely worth it. If you are interested in subscribing, click here: Amazon Prime
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