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Ice Road (Netflix) & The Tomorrow War (Amazon) Double Feature Movie Reviews

 Slacking In Reviews

So I have been a little behind on movie reviews. Guess that means double feature review time. To make it interesting, I picked two fairly new releases to two popular streaming platforms. This review will be a little different than normal as I try to determine which original movie is worth the streaming fee. I will also give some spoilers away for each movie so you are warned now. 

Both these movies have star actors as the leads with Liam Neeson and Laurence Fishburne in Ice Road from Netflix and Chris Pratt and J. K. Simmons in The Tomorrow War on Amazon. Netflix streaming service is $18 per month for just streaming. Amazon Prime is $13 per month or $119 per year which includes free shipping. Amazon clearly has the price win here. I am surprised they don't use their shipping services to sell movie merchandise for their original movies. I would like a small commission if they do for giving them the idea not that they read my blog. lol

Ice Road - Review


Who doesn't like a good Liam Neeson movie? I also use to watch Ice Road Truckers when I had cable. Seems like a good fit. With a 1 hour 48 minute run time, it should have a lot of action in a short about of time. The trailer looks good and the movie is okay. While we are given a lot of reasons to feel for Liam's character plight, I ended up feeling more for his brother in the movie.

The movie does move at a decent pace. The story is somewhat original. In the end, I felt I had wasted almost 2 hours of my life watching this movie. The actors are good in it. The story is lacking something. In the end, I felt a little cheated for wasting my time with this movie. Just glad I didn't have to pay to watch it.

The Tomorrow War


Chris Pratt is making a lot of movies off his MCU fame. While the movie boasts a 2 hour 18 minute run time, it movies at a decent pace. The story seemed so familiar and I would enjoy someone commenting which movies it stole the story from. I did just see a comment on the trailer's site that this was similar to Tom Cruise's Live, Die, Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow and this was probably the movie I was thinking of while watching this one.

We do end up caring for the characters. While not a movie that I will purchase in the future, it was enjoyable to watch. It could be that they did not have Emily Blunt in this version. They do have Yvonne Strahovski. Overall, I would suggest watching this if you already have Prime.

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