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The Tomorrow War (2021)
Plot Hole within a Plot Hole within a Plot Hole
Where to start with this movie...
If you just like Aliens, guns and fast moving action, you could drift along and forget about the almighty holes in this movie. If you like things to make at least some common sense. Watch something else.
The film basically sees people being transported to the future to fight an alien war that we're losing if we don't send reinforcements from our current timeline.
Once that premise is laid the whole film starts falling apart. We send reinforcements with no training, no armour, not even basic knowledge of what they're facing. Despite literally having decades to ready people. Instead they get transported into the future 24 hours after enrolling with just a gun and a mic.
The only way to kill the aliens with a gun is to shoot them in the neck or the belly. Otherwise a gun is useless. And they don't even give the recruits this basic knowledge before sending them?! Imagine sending millions into a war with a weapon that only works on two very specific places, knowing this before you send people and not bothering to tell them. No wonder we're losing this war?!
It boils down to 80-90% of the movie spent looking for a toxin to kill the aliens with. They decide to use the toxin to kill the aliens in the present. The main characters wife and a school boy figure out where and when the aliens are in the present in about 3 minutes, despite nobody on the planet including the main characters daughter who has her bloated CV and education fronted during the movie. Being able to figure this information out in years?!
Yet on finding the alien outbreak in hibernation before it spread, using the toxin only made the whole thing worse! They kill 6 aliens with the toxin you spend nearly 2 hours working towards and blow the other thousand or so up with a bit of C4!?
Literally if they never found and used the toxin and just placed some C4 and blew them up, they'd of had a nice day out in the snow without the drama?!
The film destroys its own arch and resolution.
Wouldn't recommend to anyone that requires a basic level of intelligence in their storytelling.
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Death of the American Film Market
If you like watching essentially the same movie being re-released every 4 months with a different character in a slightly different colour of spandex going through the exact same story arch as the last hero in an incredibly repetitive formulaic experience, then this is for you...
If you like original, thought provoking movies that test you're senses and deliver new experiences, with strong well built characters, unique stories, excellent acting and ground-breaking directing... Then you won't like this.
Another year, another endless array of comic book movies; there's a reason non of them never get nominated for best picture & it's not a good one.
Beyond Skyline (2017)
If you thought the first one was bad, you ain't seen nothing yet..
Where to start, on a high i guess at the end... It finished with a comedy blooper reel which was the only time either someone on the screen or in the room i watched it in, smiled.
After the first film you would of thought the government would of used the alien wrecks to figure something out should they attack again, nope, they go down in seconds... though after 40 mins of listening to a baby crying a smack head in the jungle figures out how to destroy them in about 30 seconds, thou not before deciphering a childs human genome in less than a minute of course. Not that the armies advance weaponry was needed as a few jit stains from the jungle managed to kill most of the aliens with a selection of small knifes.
This has just taken over Skyline as the worst sci-fi movie I've ever seen, how they got the green light for a sequel is beyond any reasonable logic, if you like those £2 Steven Segal movies you see in bins at petrol stations, then your likely to bump into this quicker than most. And if you thought it was good, you seriously need to reassess your standards... or get some in first place...