Pratt plays a teacher turned pre-emptive conscript for a future war with aliens in this overlong and derivative actionerWe’ve come an awfully long way since Chris Pratt was the goofy comic turn Andy Dwyer in TV’s Parks and Recreation, pretending to be top-secret FBI agent Burt Macklin.
These days he’s got the chops to be a tough, chiselled action lead who removes his shirt to reveal some serious work with the personal trainer, and this is how he’s presented in this great big overstuffed and overlong sci-fi action thriller from former animation director Chris McKay.
In Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic World, Pratt had at least some residue of his former comedy existence, and to be fair there are one or two funny lines here, but this is a very earnest and generic lead performance.Pratt plays Dan Forester, an idealistic soldier-turned-high school teacher
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