All those hours developing a toxin, and all that was really needed to kill the white spikes was some old school explosives and a souvenir claw from the future.

Philo B 93 said:

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Thumbs up from me.
1. Aliens
2. Time travel
3. Starlord
4. Saving the planet.
5. J. Jonah Jameson

What more do you need? This movie wasn't based on a true story, and some of the science seemed more theoretical than real. Otherwise let's rock.

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You forgot this movie also channels The Thing.

too funny, and true

I always think this guy is so cheesy but damn is he hilarious.

Seems like the plot twist at the end was lifted from the plot in Prometheus

I enjoyed it.

Loved the special effects for the white spikes.

I also liked how messy it was, because life is messy.

I'm sure we'll get a Tomorrow War 2 where the humanoid aliens come attack earth on purpose instead of crash landing.

Sea Speed said:

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I always think this guy is so cheesy but damn is he hilarious.

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I went down the rabbit hole watching his videos, he's definitely entertaining.

Well at least half of that might be true, a sequel is looking likely.

https://deadline.com/2021/07/chris-pratt-tomorrow-war-2-amazon-skydance-in-talks-1234788748/

It was ok. I'll never watch it again but I was entertained. #conspiracySanta

And by the way, any idea where the five snowmobiles came from? Did Jk have those laying around? Did they stop at Dicks on the way to the airport? And where did they land? I'm sure a Russian airport would have been cool with it right? Not to mention a crap ton of C4 must have just been lying around for them to use. And volcanic ash falls for thousands of miles, but that glacier had to be the answer?

Just such pure cheese and somehow I didn't hate it, which I am still trying to process.

Agreed with the general consensus here, some of the set up was a bit eye rolling but the action sequences were really solid and those aliens were damnnnn.

When JK Simmons showed up for a three minute scene I was like yeah he'll be back later. And lol at Conspiracy Santa.

Finally finished. It wasn't that it was bad, necessarily (even though it was, to be clear), it's that it was rushed. Because I really liked the cast, the story itself had a ton of potential, and could have been serviced so much better as a six or eight episode limited series.

For instance, the team just deciding there toward the end to go to Russia after one dumb conversation with that bureaucrat dude, and then, once they were there, having that forced convo amongst themselves about how the U.N. would just screw it up - we needed to SEE stuff like that; SEE Pratt try to convince the powers that be, SEE the bureaucratic ineptitude, SEE Pratt & co hit that brick wall and get frustrated, THEN finally decide to go to Russia on their own, etc. Those two exposition scenes are a whole episode right there. Same goes for them actually sneaking into Russia, gearing up, making it more of a challenge to find the ship, etc. That's easily a whole other episode (the entire series finale, for instance).

Overall, it was a decently cool premise, and the time travel logic/mechanics didn't bug me nearly as much as I thought they would (though an exploration of/deeper dive into how we invented *time travel* could have helped as well). It was just way too much story for a single movie, that led to all kinds of cheating and cutting that forced bad/dumb decisions when there didn't need to be. I wanted to see the premise fleshed out and explored, and these characters given more room to grow and establish relationships we actually cared about.

ScreenRant is such a sh*t site, and I had never seen this Ryan guy before, but man that was great. God, this movie is dumb. I still feel like a lot of these issues could have been solved in a limited series format, but the rest are just *really* bad writing.