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The Tomorrow War review: Chris Pratt time travels to save our future

By Simon Ings

15 July 2021

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Dan (Chris Pratt, left) ends up in the future, trying to save Earth

Frank Masi/Paramount Pictures

The Tomorrow War

Chris McKay 

 Amazon Prime Video

FOOTBALL fans, don’t you just hate it when yobs invade the pitch? Schoolteacher Dan Forester (Chris Pratt) is watching soccer on television with his daughter Muri when heavily armed soldiers fall from the sky, ruining a perfectly good goal.

They have their reasons. Where they are from, 30 years in the future, alien invaders have all but exterminated humanity. They have come to invite volunteers from their past – our present – to join the fight.…

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