In The Tomorrow War, humanity is forever shaken when soldiers from the year 2051 arrive to deliver a foreboding message: In less than 30 years, humanity will be on the brink of extinction due to alien invaders known as the White Spikes. The only hope is for the humans of 2022 to travel into the future via a janky time machine and help fight back.
Pratt plays Dan, a biology teacher and former soldier who served two tours in Iraq. Dan soon gets drafted to travel into the future and complete a seven-day tour against the creatures. He leaves behind his wife, Emmy (Betty Gilpin), as well as his daughter (Skeleton Crew’s Ryan Kiera Armstrong), and barely escapes his first mission against the vicious White Spikes. The first meeting of man and alien is a class act in suspense. Due to McKay’s choice to hide what these creatures look like from both Pratt and the audience right up until a bloodbath ensues, we’re left to gape in horror when they finally appear.
Time is often a key factor in sci-fi films. Whether it’s going back in time or being propelled decades into the future, the loss of time features prominently to show serious repercussions — from the loss of a relationship to the destruction of the human race as we know it. Unlike Cruise in Edge of Tomorrow, whose knowledge of the alien invaders grows after each and every death he experiences, Pratt’s character Dan is forced to reckon with how much he’s missed in this dystopian future. While finding a way to stop the White Spikes from taking over the Earth is the A-plot of the film, it’s Dan’s relationship with his daughter Muri (whose older self is played to perfection by The Handmaid’s Tale actor Yvonne Strahovski) and what his absence in her life did to their relationship that serves as the heart of The Tomorrow War.
In fact, for all its catnip for sci-fi fans, The Tomorrow War is also undeniably a family-friendly movie, with familial relationships playing a significant role in its narrative.
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