A 30-second apocalyptic action scene is followed by 28 Years Earlier...

Reminded me of 28 Days Later, which was at a different (and much better) level altogether, without the excessive CGI and melodrama.

The flashback time is December 2022. The precise timestamp is the final of the Football World Cup scheduled in Qatar, in which Brazil are playing some unidentifiable country, and the scores are tied at 3-3, 80'.

I don't know if this was "promotional consideration," but there is no better way to send a worldwide message than during the final of the World Cup of the most popular sport on Earth: "You are our last hope."

Following the usual trope, the odds are stacked heavily against humans against the alien Whitespikes. I agree wholeheartedly with "Science is important" even when it is inserted in a very cliched classroom scene.

As can be expected, our hero is conscripted into the future-bound army because they can see the death certificates of people. I see a gaping plot hole there but I'll let it go in my flow of suspension of disbelief, yeah?

In the 24 hours he is given to "get is personal affairs in order," his wife begs him to ask his dad, played by J K Simmons, about running away.

Father and son can't see eye-to-eye, so he comes back to say goodbye to his wife and Muri the wunderkind, who is digging for vaccines. Now I know a Chekov's gun when I see one, and I think vaccines are just that. Also, Chris Pratt's character's hypocorism for Muri, his daughter, is Chickpea. I think Pratt has gotten better at playing soft-sided characters!

It's a far cry from his Parks & Recreation days in which he was a dolt.

It feels like a lot of shortcuts are used to lay out the story and the threats, and introduce the action team he'll be accompanying into the future.

Quite suddenly, we're thrust right into the scene that opened the movie.

The alien Whitespikes are admittedly nightmarish, but no match for an axe, apparently when it is wielded by veteran extraordinaire Chris Pratt.

Following conventional action movie/video game flows, he is ordered to retrieve scientists, and when that hits a dead end, 12 blue ampoules.

They survive an Apocalypse Now-style carpet bombing (neither in Vietnam nor using napalm), and make it back to the human's last base.

Chris Pratt meets his grown-up daughter played by Australian Yvonne Strahovski, who has aced acting her part in The Handmaid's Tale.

Sort of ripping off Edge of Tomorrow (which starred Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt), they focus on capturing a female Whitespike, and once they catch it with unnecessary bravado, they make a toxin. Males overrun the lab to rescue the female, and daughter dies to send father home with the all-important toxin, but the time travel gizmo goes boom.

Stuck in the past, father Chris Pratt and mother Betty Gilpin tie global warming to the awakening of the alien Whitespikes, which is a neat call to action about climate change. Now this is a critical point, so pay heed.

I know that most of my creative efforts are fun and games, but that does not mean they all have to be about pop culture and sports and rap lyrics.

I can't say I have been an environmental activist because I'm certainly no Greta Thunberg, but I can truthfully say that we both became eco-conscious around the same age, and I have been living with awareness.

The first thing we all must realize is that each of us has an impact on the environment, and even if we make tiny changes to how we live, it adds up into a tsunami of change. We can't escape natural disasters, but we can certainly decrease the artificial calamities like wildfires & warming.

You can also use social media to contribute positively towards climate change and participate easily in the conversation about conservation.

Check out We Don't Have Time in the description or on your favorite platform and make a difference which future generations will love!

Now back to the future - I'm sorry, back to The Tomorrow War. Pratt and team find the mothership of the Whitespikes in the un-freezing Arctic.

Long story short, they drop a hint for a possible sequel about the Whitespikes' creators, ripping off Ripley's Alien trilogy, then the dying man suicide-bombs the mothership after most of the team is killed, and finally father JK Simmons and son Chris Pratt hunt down the last female, possibly setting up a Children of Men reboot for the aliens.

All is well and the family reunites, having saved the future but wasted over 2 hours of our time. Still, at least some kids will think about a career in the sciences, and perhaps grown-ups like us will think a little more about how we can reduce waste at eh very least from our lives.

Cheers to a bright future and wishes for your safety! - Aradhye Ackshatt