The Tomorrow War went straight into streaming due to the Covid pandemic.

Frankly steaming might be the best place for it as it has all the hallmarks of a movie that went through a creative process.

Chris Pratt is Dan Forester a former combat soldier turned into a family and a high school biology teacher who cannot get a better and a high paying job.

Things take a turn when he is recruited to be a soldier again to battle alien monsters 30 years into the future.

When he arrives in the year 2051 where he has just to survive a week before returning to his family in the past. He finds a planet being ravaged by creatures called the White Spikes. His daughter is now Commander Forester who has developed a toxin to kill the creatures.

There is plenty of action in The Tomorrow War and it is slickly made but it also has a lot of unintentional hilarity. When Dan and others arrive in the future, the literally fall from the skies. Most crash land and die, Dan and a few others fall in a swimming pool.

The film is a composite of movies such as Alien, Predator, Edge of Tomorrow. There is a laziness about the whole movie as it is uninspired and not very original.

I enjoyed this film, for what it's worth. It's no classic and hardly original, pasting together bits and pieces from genuine prior hits like ALIENS, BATTLE: LOS ANGELES and STARSHIP TROOPERS in particular, but it works. After a slightly strained set-up with cheesy acting from Chris Pratt, we get thrown into a story offering copious action and even a bit of time travel a la EDGE OF TOMORROW to boot. I'm no fan of Pratt but the supporting cast is pretty good here, and the CGI effects are generally decent for once. The film suffers a little from the family friendly rating but pushes hard at the boundaries, with a high body count and plenty of carnage as the humans battle aliens for supremacy. On the downside, it's highly predictable, the emoting is overdone and it's about half an hour too long, but other than that it's not bad at all.

This is another man vs. Aliens to save the planet. The fighting resembles that of "Star Ship Troopers" although the film dialogue isn't quite as light. In 2050 or so aliens have wiped out much of the human race. Reinforcements are taken from the elder population, i.e. Those that are dead by 2050. There is a time worm hole that gives people 168 hours in the future to fight. Their survival rate is low. Dan Forester (Chris Pine) becomes the main character as we focus on his family drama and what he must do to save the world and his daughter.

It was mindless enjoyable. J. K. Simmons and Sam Richardson were good on screen.

Guide: No swearing, sex, or nudity.