Wilsoncpu-605-474004 Review of The Tomorrow Man

The Tomorrow Man (2019)

Goes from mildly disappointing to a total disaster in the last minute

[4/10 · 2 November 2020]

Inoffensive, sometimes charming, sometimes infuriating for most of its runtime. Near the end, a real difficulty is raised: one characters hoarding obsession. In real life, people have been so addicted to hoarding that they have lost custody due to their lack of self-control. That makes this thread a possibly intriguing path. Unfortunately, as soon as the real difficulty is raised, the director ends the movie in as stupid, arch, and "ironic" way as humanly possible. Yes, I saw where "fantastical" elements were introduced before, but those were signaled as dream sequences, thus setting up the rules for the audience. Meaning that the audience is meant to take the ending as LITERAL in the movie. Which makes it, again, stupid, arch, and "ironic" in the most heavy-handed manner possible. I give the rest of the movie 6 stars, the end 0. Weighted for run time on one side and import on the other (the END is the most critical part of any liner work of art), 4 stars.