"Tomorrow's War" is not so much a movie delayed by the epidemic as it is a blockbuster that was delayed by the director.
This ill-fated film was completed as early as early 2020, but the sudden epidemic caused the release date of "Tomorrow's War" to become "never tomorrow". Paramount had hoped that "Tomorrow's War" would squeeze into the 2020 Christmas slot, but the global pandemic made the film eventually sold to Amazon's streaming platform Prime Video. The $200 million blockbuster, which has to be broadcast online on a television screen, is still catching up with the tail of a summer show in China, which makes people cry and laugh.
What makes people even more crying is that this rare sci-fi blockbuster released this year is directed by an animation director, and it is no wonder that even the popular "Star Lord" Chris Pratt cannot save this bad film. Director Chris McKay's only previous film work was 2017's Lego Batman Movie, which was directed by such an animated film director as the sci-fi blockbuster "Tomorrow's War", which is the most "sci-fi" part of the film.
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What exactly is the director talking about in the movie "Tomorrow's War"?
There is no doubt that this is a movie about a monster, but the problem is that many viewers can't remember the name of this monster after watching the whole movie, Whitespikes. It took nearly a quarter of the film to begin before the image of the monster appeared, almost imitating the monster image from forty years ago in Alien.
The only creative plot in the movie is that these monsters originally fell to Earth from an alien planet and then lurked for thousands of years before making waves. But what makes people feel "a dog's blood" is that the monster in the movie suddenly appeared on the Siberian plains of Russia in 2052, hidden in the Changbai Mountains on the border between China and North Korea thousands of years ago. As the volcano erupted, these monsters crawled out of the ground and invaded the human world. The choice of these countries as hiding places for monsters has made Chinese audiences feel embarrassed, and "Tomorrow's War" is obviously just a movie that wants to entertain american audiences.
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At the beginning of the film, a scene of "dog blood" is seen, a team of soldiers from 2052 broke into the final of the 2022 Qatar World Cup, announced on the spot that humanity will face a monster invasion in 30 years, and recruited the current human to travel to 2052 to fight. This kind of hot-spot behavior makes people realize that the film also forcibly mixes in the concept of time travel, and presents this complex scientific concept in a rather unreasonable way.
"Tomorrow's War" realizes time travel through a way called "Jump-Link", and the form of shuttle is not too innovative, but the film gives a time and space travel rule that makes the audience feel messy. The male protagonist who was recruited to the future gradually discovered a strange problem, and the teammates in the same group were mostly older people, and few young adults joined. It turns out that "Tomorrow's War" defines a complex concept for "Jump-Link", and only those who die before 2052 are eligible to travel back in time to fight in the future.
As we all know, time-traveling films adhere to an unwritten rule that time travel cannot change the course of history, and the time-travel plot of "Tomorrow's War" clearly violates the principles of this science fiction film field. So there is such a complex concept in the movie to rub the edge ball, the male protagonist realizes that he will definitely die in an accident in 2052, and the world he travels to 2052 has nothing to do with him. The director's skill is not enough to dig deep into this complex concept that has been painstakingly conceived, and the film only stays in the pursuit of visual effects.
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"Tomorrow's War" is not only a monster movie in the context of time travel, the director also added complex family relationships to it, as if he wanted to imitate the sci-fi blockbuster "Interstellar" directed by Nolan. After the male protagonist crosses into the future, he meets his daughter and learns from the daughter that he has run away from home, and the male protagonist has to inexplicably try to repair his feelings with his daughter and make up for the mistakes he has not yet committed. Such a rigid plot design makes the audience look confused and cannot cause emotional resonance at all.
In the movie "Tomorrow's War", we also saw the long-lost old drama bone J· K. Simmons, who plays the male protagonist's father, who never comes and goes. The relationship between the two is like water and fire, but suddenly at the end of the movie, the previous suspicion is released, and the father and son join forces to fight the monster. At the end of the movie, the old man re-enters his son's house and picks up his granddaughter who has not yet grown up, a typical Hollywood ending.
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This rare commercial blockbuster of 2021 has been created by an inadequacy animation director, who tells a variety of complex plots in a simple and rough way, making the film feel like a pile. "Star Lord" Chris Pratt may be the only highlight in the movie "Tomorrow's War", and "Star Lord", who looks more and more like Atango, will be the leader of Hollywood's next generation of action movies.