Warriors of Future

Movie review by Brian Costello, Common Sense Media
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age 13+

Violence, peril in frenzied dystopian sci-fi adventure.

NR 2022 112 minutes
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What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that Warriors of Future is a 2022 Chinese sci-fi movie in which a group of ragtag soldiers must save the world from monstrous plants that landed from a meteor. Expect a fair amount of sci-fi action violence. There's fighting with robots, lasers, missile launchers, rifles, and guns; implied suicide; and monster imagery: The plants are somewhat reminiscent of the plant monsters from Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It's a dystopian sci-fi film in which the world teeters on the brink of total environmental catastrophe. Mild infrequent language includes "hell."

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What's the Story?

In WARRIORS OF FUTURE, Earth is on the verge of total environmental collapse. Wars between robots have added to the chaos, and the only thing saving humanity from extinction are giant biodomes known as Sky-Nets. As if that isn't enough, a giant meteor has fallen to Earth that carries Pandora, a plant creature that has grown to dangerous proportions after drinking water. However, scientists have also discovered that Pandora has the potential to clean the polluted air -- provided that a virus is injected into its pistil. The mission is given to Sean Li (Nick Cheung) and his ragtag gang of renegade soldiers and pilots. Sean and his crew soon find that taking on Pandora might be more than they bargained for, but they must find a way to defeat it and save humanity.

Is It Any Good?

This is a bombastic sci-fi whose excesses would make big-budget Hollywood directors blush. Warriors of Future is the highest-grossing Chinese-language movie in Hong Kong, and it's not difficult to see why. It's a frenzy of CGI battles, blockbuster movie heroes ... and a killer plant. It's a pretty crazy movie, but at the same time, a lot of it doesn't seem that far removed from Michael Bay and James Cameron epics.

It isn't the easiest movie to follow. There's a whole lot of exposition at the beginning, more than what's needed. There are some plot twists, but they're not exactly surprising. The characters are basically stock action movie heroes and villains, and therefore none of them really inspire the audience to root for them. The most inspired part of the movie is this idea of an invasive plant from outer space that can both destroy and rescue humanity, but that part of the story is likely to be lost in the cacophony of lasers, missile launchers, spaceship crashes, and more. The excess ultimately proves to be the movie's undoing.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Families can talk about sci-fi movies like Warriors of Future. How is this similar to and different from other sci-fi adventures you've seen?

  • How did the movie use science fiction to address real-world concerns like potential environmental catastrophes?

  • Was the violence necessary to the movie, or was it excessive? Why?

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