Review of The Tomorrow War (2021) by Bl1Rt — 03 Jul 2021

Whenever you see military equipment in a movie, you know that the army paid for it, and in return gets some promotion in. With The Tomorrow War, the army paid and produced the whole of it. It is very clearly an overblown recruitment video.

You get to see a lot of their tech in action, beautiful explosions, camaraderie, talk about courage and heroism and protecting your children. And, did you know, they have a science division for nerds? Girls are welcome too. Politics is useless, but when the going gets tough, the tough get going. Be your best self. You don't know what you have until you have to defend it, and so on.

Beside the tropes from the brochure, the movie doesn't have much to offer. The story is thin, there is no room for the nuances you would expect in a war movie, and it is about an hour too long. But the target audience, i.e. people who enlist, will probably like it.