russ_watters said:
But I felt like watching some mindless action last night and it did the job.
I'm very late to this,
@russ_watters, but if you want mindless violence, 6
Underground fits the bill. It's also on Netflix and more thriller than sci-fi (though the tech deployed in the superyacht KISMET sequence is very future oriented), but it moves at hyperviolence pace. Or, if you're up for a series, Netflix's
The Old Guard is good, though again, it's not a sci-fi movie.
As for
The Tomorrow War,
@gleem, I felt it was two stories smashed into one movie and both were poorly writ. The screenplay looks to only Zach Dean's third and I wondered how much sci-fi he's read (I can't find he's written any), because I felt it lacked a solid understanding of the two main tropes it invokes.
Tom Cruise's alien flicks,
Edge of Tomorrow and
Oblivion, out act, out script, and out emote T
he Forever War, which seems to think big name stars can paper over a shaky concept. In that, it reminded me of Netflix's
Extraction, where a huge name - Chris Hemsworth in that case - is wasted in a paint-by-numbers plot with so many holes in it that no matter how good an actor you hire, they can't help but fall down a few.
Sadly,
The Tomorrow War also took itself way too seriously so there was no edge of sly humour that can save a dumb idea from disaster. Think
Red Notice, which is pretty awful, but the actors are having such fun, you're mostly happy to go along with the gag.
It is hard to know if
The Tomorrow War was a commercial success. Amazon claimed it was and there was talk of a sequel (
) mid last year, though I can't immediately find more recent news, but Jeff's studio has sufficient cash to write off a few $200M movies because they support retaining Prime members, so not every one has to be profitable in its own right.
But didn't