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The Tomorrow War

The Tomorrow War

2021

Chris McKay

Chris Pratt, Yvonne Strahovski, J.K. Simmons, Betty Gilpin ...

5.4

13,299

Sci-Fi. Action A man is drafted to fight in a future war where the fate of humanity relies on his ability to confront his past.

	Author	Review
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"A big, dumb, sometimes tedious, sometimes fun civilization-vs.-aliens showdown (...) It’s a lot of deluxe pablum you’ve seen before, but all you can eat of it."	NEU
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"'The Tomorrow War' is fated to be forever entombed on a little square that people will blithely scroll past as they search for season five of 'Bosch'."	NEG
United States	Nick Allen The Playlist	"Blockbuster movies are often as loud and action-based as 'The Tomorrow War,' but they’re rarely as diverse in tone or so delightfully wild when it comes to in-your-face entertainment"	POS
United States	Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"[A] time-travel spectacle in which clichés rain as fast and as furiously as bullets (...) Sucking ideas from across the sci-fi spectrum (...) Zach Dean’s screenplay grows more ludicrous by the minute"	NEG
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"Action-packed and family-centric in a solidly commercial way, the pic may be missing that certain something that would have made it huge in theaters (...) but it will be plenty entertaining as an addition to Amazon’s streaming menu"	POS
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"This is one of the most confounding and ridiculous movies of the year, with a terrific cast sinking under the weight of a convoluted plot and medium-grade CGI special effects (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Tara McNamara Common Sense Media	"[McKay's] knack with comedy is also on display in 'The Tomorrow War', combined with other factors that will appeal to older tweens and teens (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Matt Goldberg Collider	"If you were envisioning the most generic sci-fi action movie possible, it would probably look a lot like 'The Tomorrow War'."	NEG
United States	Scott Mendelson Forbes	"It is genuinely thrilling to see this big, bold and aggressively stand-alone adventure film. There's a joy to see McKay and Dean carefully laying out their original premise"	POS
United States	Simon Abrams The Wrap	"There’s more telling than showing in this sci-fi action epic, and a lot of the telling is clumsy and obvious (...) [It] is too convoluted and inflexible"	NEG
Canada	Josh Bell CBR	"[It] botches the execution and is largely incoherent. Overall, its plot holes and logical inconsistencies take over the course of its bloated 140-minute running time."	NEG
Canada	Matt Rooney JoBlo	"Thanks to a story that does actually manage to provide at least a little depth between the chaos you may find yourself, like me, reaching the end of 'The Tomorrow War' surprised by how good of a time you had."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It all feels like a heavy meal, and the action scenes and the creature effects are very derivative (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Ian Sandwell Digital Spy	"'The Tomorrow War' might not fully deliver on its brilliant premise, but it's still an epic and original sci-fi trip that's worth taking (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	John Nugent Empire	"The humour hit-to-miss rate is alarmingly low (...) 'The Tomorrow War' is mostly just bloated blockbuster business as usual (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"The garbage pizza of science-fiction films (...) Audiences are cognizant of such loose threads because other movies have been telling this story better for years (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers ABC News	"'The Tomorrow War' has funny and touching moments but falls short (...) Is this film any good? The conflicted answer is sometimes yes but mostly no (...) Crushingly repetitive 140 minutes"	NEG

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