The Tomorrow Job is like a D grade clone of a Christopher Nolan film. An interesting idea executed poorly. A science fiction heist film with a time travel premise with doubtful utility and a heist plotline that fails to crackle. I like what it’s trying to do, I just didn’t like how it did it.

The film posits a near future where crooks are hired to travel forward in time one day. They don’t physically travel; they swap minds with their future selves, thus allowing them to gain information and bring it back to the past. Our gang of time heisters are, of course, mixed up in a deeper, more complex and shadier plot.

The very premise – time travel one day into your future selves body – feels like a pretty loosy goosey idea. I fail to to buy into the benefit or utility of such a feet, especially when your past selves will have to wind up near the target of the heist in order for your past self to pull off the job once you take over your future body. But sentences like that are kind of why, despite these misgivings, I kind of respect the attempt.

The plot is twisty like a good heist film should be… but it’s also just not very compelling or snappy. Part of the problem is the pacing and groovy soundtrack just don’t have that fun energy you’d expect from a heist flick. They clearly think they are making an Ocean’s Eleven style sf yarn, but it just don’t gel.

The film ultimately runs out of steam well before the end. When I checked out, they kept limping along, ultimately losing me on the ongoing plot (and me not caring).

Not the worst movie, but you can feel all sorts of ways where it could have been better. Conceptually, pacing, acting… it’s all just not as good as it could have been and certainly not as good as they think it is. Too bad.

Score: 66