The Tomorrow Job (2023)

This time, Bruce Wemple leaves behind creature films like Monstrous and Dawn of the Beast and makes his way back to the time paradox genre with The Tomorrow Job, which is akin to Lake Artifact and Altered Hours, which marked the beginning of his career.

Indeed, The Tomorrow Job reworks the premise of Altered Hours. The premise revolves around a drug that aids the user to jump a day into the future. This acts as the starting point for the story of Lee, who is a time-traveling thief, and his crew. Lee was a subject of the late Dr. Tupple (Rick Montgomery Jr., Puppet Master: Doktor Death, Connected)’s time travel experiments and when he left the project, he took the remaining drug samples with him.

Now, he and Finn (Caitlin Duffy, Our Bed is Green, Chill) and Martin (Andrew Gombas, White Walls, Dark Rooms) use the drug to steal information for clients. It is a risky and complicated affair, but it pays very well and that is what matters the most.

Furthermore, this alone could make for a captivating heist movie. The technique with which the future drug enables the user to swap with their younger self, is rather intricate as well as time-constrained, which adds further risk to the characters and tension for the viewer. Rather, Wemple reports an entity referred to as The Organization under the supervision of The Organizer, who wants Lee’s supply of the time travel drug, which is more harmful than Katt’s Turnabout. It seems that it is In fact possible to pay someone to replicate it, this is where George Katt, also referred to as the House of Bodies has its own supply because of Derrick Wagner.

Here is the place where The Tomorrow Job starts becoming more intriguing as far as the plot is concerned, as with Lee and his gang, Sophia, who replaced Martin, has now turned into a fanged version of Schrodinger’s cat, and desperately trying to stay alive while being on a tight clock from the future history.

There are betrayals, people who were dead show up living which I have no idea how that would fall under a paradox, shady cryptocurrency investment brokers, and as you try to understand what’s going on, it appears all rules set by the film regarding protection boundaries to safe time travel are entirely ignored, which is also where the headache kicks in for the viewer.

To make things worse, The Tomorrow Job has a main character devoid of any charm at all. Lee is a petty thief with an insurmountable arrest record who got lucky. He comes across as a potboiler from some 70’s movie with the right clothes, but a colorless life, which is the total opposite of what we need from a soft-hearted scum-bag. On the other end of the spectrum, Wagner is evil enough to provide The Tomorrow Job with a good antagonist, but bland enough for The Organizer to look like he just came out of the cover of an 80’s techno-pop album, and starts shooting out funny dialogue without any context. Wemple would have been better off giving him just enough screen time to establish his existence, or had Wagner be in business for himself.

The Tomorrow Job has some good parts, but it is not recommended for a value-for-money entertainment view. Some casuals may enjoy it, but the script is so loosely constructed and confusing, that the film delivers an overall poor experience. And at one hour and forty-seven minutes, it is simply too long. The film concludes with a setup for a sequel, and a post-credits scene builds upon it. If Wemple could tighten up his ideas instead of being so drastically ambitious, this could be better than what we currently rate it.

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