【Text/Observer Network Ruan Jiaqi】
At the beginning of this year's summer program, although the American movie "Tomorrow's War" was only broadcast on streaming media, it still received a lot of attention due to the scarce sci-fi thriller genre.
When the film introduces the countries of the world to mobilize troops to resist alien monsters, a flashing picture attracts the attention of Chinese audiences: How did a picture of a Chinese student military training parade appear here?!
Let Amazon spend $200 million to buy the broadcast rights, produced by the famous Hollywood studio Skydance Media, which has produced "Mission Impossible", "Terminator" series, "Star Trek", "Twin Killers" and other famous Hollywood studios, and "Tomorrow's War" starring Marvel "Star Lord" Chris Pratt was released on the streaming media platform on July 2, US time.
The film is about the 2052 human race that is about to become extinct by the unknown alien monster "White Spike", so it chooses to travel back to 2022 and ask for help from their parents and grandparents. Chris Pratt's male protagonist "Dan" enlisted in the army in 2052, and eventually three generations of grandchildren worked together to solve the crisis.
The main time in the film is 2022, the male protagonist "Dan" was a U.S. special forces sergeant who participated in the Iraq War, and became a biology teacher after retiring from the army. When a family of three was watching a TV game, suddenly a group of heavily armed people appeared out of thin air in the middle of the court.
The leader of the group said that they came from 30 years later (2052), and in the future encountered a catastrophe, the alien monster "White Spike" slaughtered the human race to only 500,000 people, and in 11 months the human race will be extinct, so they travel back to their parents and grandparents to shout for help.
Since then, the quiet life of people living in 2022 has been broken, and countries around the world have united to build many space-time teleportation devices to transport the armies of various countries to the future and help people in 2052 resist alien monsters.
When the picture is given to the armies of other countries, it looks like this:
American movies, naturally there will be more US military footage, just like the "recruitment advertisement" interstitial:
But then this scene made the Chinese audience a little confused: there are "billions" a little familiar, is this not the picture of the Military Training Parade of Chinese students?
This clip appeared too outrageous, so that netizens did not know from which angle to spit on for a while...
Is this just the only slot point? No, if you watch the whole film, you will find that this is outrageous, isn't this a little bit?! According to netizens, "There is no ten years of cerebral thrombosis can not write this logical and touching script." ”
Like many post-viewing reviews, this movie is a "brainless cool film", the special effects sound quality is a must, even on the big screen is a pity, but the script is really sorry for the money that the special effects smashed.
(PS: Spoilers are included below!) spoiler! spoiler! ）
The book continues above, in fact, from the original 2052 people to cross back, it is quite inexplicable to ask the people of 2022 to go to the future to help eliminate the white nails. How can a monster with advanced technology that cannot be killed by the army of the future hope to be solved by people in the backward era?
And with so many countries in the world, no one can think of solving it from the source, directly before the disaster occurs in 2022, to find out the reason for the appearance of white nails and strangle them in the cradle.
Alien monster white spikes
The whole world followed the instructions of the people of the future and united to build a bunch of time-jumping devices to transport the armies of various countries into the future one by one.
But as just said, the monsters that cannot be killed by future technology, what can people who are backward in the past, so soon the world's armies are basically completely destroyed. But the Americans didn't want to do anything else, so they had to "go all the way to the black" and began to forcibly requisition civilians, and those who were conscripted would be imprisoned if they evaded military service or destroyed tracking devices, or wives and children's families would be imprisoned instead.
Nine times out of ten, people who go will not come back, and even if they come back, they may be selected again. Moreover, if he died in battle, his surviving family would not be "exempted", and there was still a possibility of being selected.
The male protagonist was selected, and the US military forcibly installed a time-jumping device on him
The U.S. military also has a "special" approach to looking for people who don't live to 2052 for various reasons, because they avoid traveling through the past and showing up two of the same people at the same time. In the same way, the future people who crossed back were not yet born in 2022.
This setting seems to be very rigorous, but in 2022, people will die in large numbers in order to save the descendants in 30 years, and the rapid decline of the entire society and the chaos of the situation will inevitably have an impact on the future world, and the whole film completely avoids the "grandmother paradox", that is, "I travel back in time and kill my grandmother before my father is born." When my grandmother died, there would be no father, and without my father, there would be no me, so who killed my grandmother? ”
According to future information, Dan will die in 7 years, so he was selected as a new batch of soldiers, and the vast majority of those selected with him are civilians with no combat experience and need urgent training. But before leaving, no one told the civilians details about the white spikes, and the future people said that it was because they were afraid that they would refuse to go to the future when they learned the details.
It seems that people can really not go if they don't want to go, which is compulsory conscription, and which discipline civilians are solicited.
Looking further down, I finally understand why people who have crossed into the future have almost no return:
Most of the selected people are older, rare under the age of 40, and have no combat experience, and can only rely on a few days of training to learn to fight and self-protection. Dan's batch was even more miserable, the sudden mission made the departure time earlier, and they were teleported away without learning anything.
And due to teleportation problems, these people fell from mid-air and directly "landed into a box", and only those who fell into the rooftop pool survived.
Good fellow, the task has not yet begun, first of all, the people are wasted in half...
The only remaining men soon received a new message: because the white spikes had invaded the city of Miami, the army was powerless to stop it and decided to carpet bomb the place within minutes.
Yes, I heard it right, people just arrived, ready to blow up the city, no wonder there are few people left to send it!
However, some netizens suddenly sharpened: between the recent collapse of the Miami apartment in reality, there is also a living person who has not been rescued, and the government has blown up the building, this wave is a jumping prophet!
It was skydiving again, monster pursuit, and bombing that followed, anyway, a toss,around, this batch of detachments that could have filled the entire hangar, and finally only seven or eight people led by Dan were left.
By the way, almost all the rest are black players.
The first mission fails, and Dan is sent to the station and meets his daughter, who has grown up. His daughter inherited his mantle as a doctor of biology, the only remaining group of scientists on Earth.
The last stronghold of the Global Coalition Army, the only one that the UN Five permanents do not have is France (covering its face)
The daughter is committed to inventing a toxin that can destroy the white spikes, but the female white spikes are special, and the general poison does not work on it. As long as the female white spike is eliminated, this alien population will also be unsustainable and will soon die out. With Dan's help, they captured a female white spike alive for research, but after successfully developing an effective agent, all the male white spikes attacked the maritime research center.
The screenwriter must not have played the tower defense game, there was no large-scale lethal weapon as a defense line for such an important facility, and in the face of the white spikes that "roamed the mountains and fields", there were only a few fighters with machine guns "suddenly" strafed, not even a missile was thrown, and the research center was quickly attacked.
At the last moment, the daughter sacrificed herself and let Dan cross back with the poison, and then sent back to 2052 after mass production to solve the crisis. After Dan returns to 2022, the Future Man tells him that the time chain is broken and they cannot travel to the future. Unable to send the potion to the future, Dan feels that he cannot change the outcome of his daughter's death, which is very painful. The government also felt that there was no need to do any more work on the poison, and the future could not be changed anyway.
The brain circuits of these people are really difficult to understand, since there is a poison, can not be prepared in advance, in the white nail just appeared to eliminate it, human extinction will not cease to exist... Why can this idea only go to the one-way street of "going to the future to change your destiny"?
With a quarter of the film left in the film, Dan finally got the hang of it and decided to find and take action against the white spike before it even appeared.
To solve the final big boss, the ancestral skills of American movies also began, pulling all the three countries of China, Russia and North Korea in one breath: the first appearance of the white long nail was in Russia in 2048, and Dan's comrades-in-arms also found the volcanic ash of Changbai Mountain from the border between China and North Korea.
Under the analysis of a black high school volcano enthusiast, they figured out the origin of the white long nail, but this sudden turn almost flashed the old waist:
It turned out that the white spikes were already on the earth as early as 1,000 years ago, when the Changbai Mountains erupted, and volcanic ash fell to Russia, so the white spikes in the polar ice of Russia were stained with volcanic ash on their feet. By 2048, they were all frozen under 10,000 feet of polar ice, but due to the global warming caused by the large amount of greenhouse gases emitted by humans, the melting of the ice released dormant white spikes.
Didn't expect it! After seeing the end, I realized that this was actually a white left environmental protection film!
According to the range of volcanic ash dispersion, they found the old nest of white nails, but the U.S. government did not believe or willing to go to Russia at this time of turmoil, and the film directly called it a hostile country.
However, there is a protagonist aura that is fierce, without the assistance of the state? unafraid! The Lone Hero is me!
Dan with a few teammates and a father who retired from the Vietnam War, a bunch of civilians directly drove a military plane into Russia, and in a short while found the place where the white spikes were frozen, and later blew up the entire alien spacecraft, resulting in russia, a "hostile country in a state of combat readiness", and Russia did not react.
A group of Americans, blew up the Russian territory, this is the next door big Mao Ti did not move the knife or how...
The most outrageous thing is that when Dan and his party first found the white long nail, they did not expect to directly blow up the matter, and actually gave the dormant white long nail a poison one by one, and this poison also needed to be shot one by one.
As a result, only 5 were beaten, and the monster who was beaten was dead, but the movement that was made woke up the white nails of a spaceship, and finally could only sacrifice the black brother to blow up the ship.
Really, people would have slept well, you woke up one by one, 30 years in advance to release the white nails, cattle!
If you can blow up the things in one breath, how do you have to rush into the cabin of the spaceship to make things whole and complicated... Why, put an AOE you haven't cooled down the skill yet, have you?
Sure enough, a female white spike was released in the explosion, and in the end, it was seriously injured by Dan and his father poking their eyes with an axe and slitting their throats with a dagger.
A little further on, Dan's black friend also had a chainsaw split...
This does not use heavy weapons, "hand tearing" can fight half to death, you say that it killed 7.8 billion people on the earth to the end of only 500,000, the future of human beings simply can not resist, it is quite a ripper.
The only logical thing is probably that after the success of the final mission, an American politician who looks especially like Pompeo rushed to accept an interview and asked for credit, saying that as soon as he knew where the white nails were dormant, he gave the order to attack, but in fact, he had ignored people's love before.
The faces of some politicians in the United States are very real.
For many science fiction fans, the plot of "Tomorrow's War" insults IQ, not to mention, and even looks like watching a "big mess stew", and the shadows of "Edge of Tomorrow", "Alien" and "Interstellar" can be seen everywhere.
As a science fiction film, the most criticized thing about "Tomorrow's War" is that it has no "futuristic feeling" at all.
The weapons and armaments dan used after he came to 2052 are the same as those used 30 years ago. Originally, I thought that the future technology to play stealth fighters is a dish, and it turns out that there is not even a robot or the like here.
When he was chased by the monster, he actually used a machine gun to burst out... Even if it is put aside now, it can be rockets per capita, why is global technology still going backwards after 30 years?
A sci-fi movie, how about you give me an hour of electromagnetic weapons or individual exoskeleton mechs or something like that?
When catching monsters, they actually tied up a rope and pulled it by hand...
So primitive, please ask where the scientific and technological crystals of these 30 years of development have gone, and it is not the "Three-Body Problem", the scientific and technological skill tree has been locked by aliens to prevent development.
"Do you mean to call yourself a science fiction film?"
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