![]() ![]() The more we are exposed to the obnoxious future and the closer characters inch towards the vicious, man-eating creatures called Whitespikes, the danger and threat get reduced to a trickle. ![]() ![]() When Dan and his acquaintances, Charlie (the funny Sam Richardson), and Dorian (a stoic Edwin Hodge), among others, land in an unassigned, remote location, you expect the stakes to only grow manifold. His military training, of course, comes in handy. The relationship Dan shares with his wife (Betty Gilpin), daughter, and with his estranged father (JK Simmons), add to the play, although the healing of the wounded father-son dynamic can be seen happening from a mile away.ĭan gets, expectedly, drafted, and almost immediately sent to the precarious future without preparation. While Dan Forester (Chris Pratt, playing Chris Pratt) an Iraq War veteran and biology teacher, takes a class for a room full of visibly insouciant students, one of them asks, “What’s the point of anything-school, grades, and college?” Doom is imminent in this opening act. The first act might have well made for a high-tension human drama set in a world on the verge of insanity. The stakes are high, and during the first 30 minutes of the film, though we are yet to catch a sight of the menace, there is an enjoyable undercurrent of tension. Governments across the world (read ‘America’) send people into the future for a seven-day window to fight the Sisyphean war that has a 30% survival rate. ![]()
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