I saw it. Awful film and I yelled at my tv like a drunk fool quite a bit. Just about every supporting character outside Pratt’s family is black, and it is just odd. Character decisions make no sense. It jerks off “science” and is basically a metaphor for climate change but not a very good one.

The worst sin, though, is it never addresses the question everyone immediately asks: why don’t they just send back research, technology, and intelligence so the people in the past have 30 years to prepare? Never addressed, they just literally give fat and old people a gun, with no training, and throw them into the future to die pointlessly. It is even established that equipment and alien bio samples can go back in time, but no one bothers to do anything with this ability until the very end and not in a smart way.

The idea actually has potential. I was hoping for a twist where the “future” people were scamming the past. That it is a parallel universe (although set in the future) and they are tricking this “past” world into to fighting for it. Nope.

The creature designs were cool though.