“Because my best future, it turned out, was always right in front of me.”

From The Tomorrow War.

Veteran Dan Forester (Chris Pratt) works as a high school science teacher to support his wife, Emmy (Betty Gilpin), and young daughter, Muri (Ryan Kiera Armstrong). During the World Cup, everyone’s shocked to see an explosion on the field with soldiers materializing from the blast. A soldier (Jasmine Matthews) informs the watching world that they’re from the year 2051, where humanity is losing a war against a terrifying alien force, and she asks global militaries to send help to the future war that will be lost without reinforcements. Soon, the modern world struggles as most militaries fall to the Whitespike aliens, forcing the world leaders to institute a draft. Dan is drafted for the deadly 7-day war service, and Emmy begs him to reach out to his estranged father (J. K. Simmons) for help escaping the draft, but Dan refuses to abandon the call. Arriving for training, Dan makes friends with the unprepared Charlie (Sam Richardson), but an attack requires their unit to be sent to the future immediately. Transported to the future, Dan finds himself leading alongside future war veteran, Dorian (Edwin Hodge), and guiding the inexperienced soldiers (including Mary Lynn Rajskub and Mike Mitchell) on a rescue mission. After saving valuable research, Dan meets the research commander: the adult Muri (Yvonne Strahovski). Muri tells Dan that she’s developing a toxin to kill Whitespikes, and he helps her study a captured female Whitespike to create a fully-successful toxin. Moments before a Whitespike army arrives, Muri completes the toxin and gives it to Dan so it can be mass produced in the resource-plentiful present. When Dan’s service time is finished, he is pulled back to the present and is desperate to get back to Muri with the toxin. However, the Whitespike attack made a return trip impossible, so Dan must find a way to stop the invasion before it starts and save his daughter from her future fate.

This sci-fi action movie is interesting, intense, and impressive. Pratt is a solid lead through the tender and action moments, especially when combined with the impressive effects, terrifying aliens, and well-created script. Not to be missed, The Tomorrow War offers viewers a chance to enjoy a major summer blockbuster without leaving home.

| Rated: PG-13 | Running Time: 140 minutes |Genre: action/sci-fi|

||Family Viewing||Cursing: 4* of 10|Nudity: 0 of 10|Sexuality: 0 of 10|Gore: 6 of 10

|AVAILABLE FOR HOME VIEWING|