What a beautiful day it is today. Maybe it’s just the fact that I am on my holidays and yes, it does feel good. So, what better way to start them than to watch a film. And if it is to be a film then something with lots of death to keep me in my cheery mood. “The Tomorrow War” was the perfect film for the perfect morning.

The premise is that there is an alien invasion. Always good. Who doesn’t like to see mangled bodies and cities in ruins? It’s a little bit different here in that the invasion occurs thirty years from now and people are being recruited in more or less the present day to go fight in it. It does its best to clear up some paradoxes. You can only go if you have since died, for instance.

In between the action and gore, there is also the heart warming story of the love of a father for his daughter. It’s okay though, it just about avoids getting to the sick bucket stage where your finger is itching to change the channel.

The aliens are never given their opportunity to explain their side of things. They just like to eat and reproduce, doesn’t sound too bad to me either.

The film ends on a positive note, which I suppose is good. Maybe it’s all the horrors I’m watching but an ending where everybody dies is generally more satisfying. Apparently, that is a bit “disturbing” according to my Mum.

This film gets four stars out of five on the markometer.

The film is available only on Amazon Prime. That makes it even better, like I was specially chosen to watch it.

Another film to watch is “The Ice Road” starring Liam Neeson. If you like “Ice Road Truckers” you’ll love this. After a mine explosion, the only hope hope for trapped miners is heavy equipment that must be driven on a “Ice Road” or a river that has frozen over. I found the characters likeable and it proved more action packed than I had at first anticipated.

Four stars out of five once again.