The Tomorrow War (2021)

The Tomorrow War, a film directed by Chris McKay, is set in a dystopian future, in which humanity is engaged in clashing with an alien invasion. Some time travelers from the future, precisely from 2051, come to our time to bring horrible news: thirty years later, the Earth is in danger of being defeated by the extraterrestrial threat. The warning message, in fact, announces a violent war, which sees the world lined up against a ferocious one. To try to save humanity's future, scientists devise a last-minute plan in the hope of winning or at least fighting to the limit of possibility.
Their idea is to recruit men of the present and transport them into the future to fight the war, which does not concern them directly but which involves them emotionally. Among the new recruits is a man, Dan Forester (Chris Pratt), a high school teacher, who feels the responsibility for the outcome of the conflict on himself, especially because he hopes to give his little daughter a better world. With him there is also a smart scientist (Yvonne Strahovski) and Dan's father, Slade (J.K. Simmons), with whom the soldier has not been in contact for some time; the soldier-teacher, in fact, in addition to dealing with the global conflict, will also have to face the ghosts of his past ...