![]() ![]() About thirty years into the future, the Earth has been invaded by alien creatures that suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and by the time the survivors have constructed a method of time-traveling, the world's population is below 500,000.Back-to-Back Badasses: Dan and his father do this during the final battle when they lose the Whitespike female in their sights.Attack Its Weak Point: The Whitespikes have to be shot in the neck or abdomen to kill them hits anywhere else appear to slow them down, but only those spots are lethal.But he is right in that it's not safe either way to set off a gun in a pressurized cabin. ![]() Artistic License – Physics: Charlies states that if his gun went off and pierced the plane's hull, everyone would be sucked out of the plane through decompression, but this is an urban legend.An Asskicking Christmas: The story begins around Christmas time, and is implied to also end around Christmas time about a year later due to Christmas decorations still being up when Dan returns home.Combined with It Can Think when the last female Whitespike bites off its own limb to avoid dying from a dose of Muri's toxin.Many of the soldiers that survive being sent to the future return to the present with fewer limbs than they started with, presumably after being maimed by the Whitespikes.Amputation Stops Spread: When Dan sticks the toxin in the female’s arm, it rips it off and successfully stops the disintegration.All Your Base Are Belong to Us: The Whitespikes pull this on the ocean oil rig base in response to the humans capturing and holding one of their females there.Muri's mission to capture the female Whitespike and the subsequent destruction of Deepswell-9 that it causes when the Whitespikes retaliate is all done to develop a weapon that is only ever used to kill a few of the aliens, in circumstances where conventional weapons easily could've done the job anyways. This is mostly accomplished by blowing up the ship with C4 rather than using the poison. The key to defeating them turns out to be finding the alien spacecraft housing them in a glacier back in 2023, where they've been frozen since crash-landing in medieval times, then killing them all there before they have a chance to escape the ship and begin reproducing. All for Nothing: The toxin that Muri develops to kill all the Whitespikes.20 Minutes into the Future: The film was released in 2021 the "present-day" portion begins in December 2022, then skips to one year later.The film's surprise success has led to Amazon greenlighting a sequel with plans for the original cast to return. Originally set for a theatrical release, the film was sold by Paramount to Prime Video for a streaming release on Jas a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Among the draftees, James Daniel "Dan" Forester, Charlie and their field commander Muri Forester will prove to be humanity's unlikely hope against the Whitespikes. Draftees who manage to survive seven days get to come home. Unwilling to commit more trained soldiers, but needing to support the war, a global draft is instituted. The world's governments send troops, only for them to be wiped out. In 2022, the world is shocked when a portal opens up and soldiers from the future step out, saying that humanity is facing annihilation from vicious aliens known as Whitespikes and that they are desperate for reinforcements. The film stars Chris Pratt, Yvonne Strahovski, J. The Tomorrow War is a 2021 sci-fi film directed by Chris McKay. "Second chances are really hard to come by." ![]()
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