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00:00It's Christmas Eve in 2022, and Dan, a former sergeant currently working as a teacher, is
00:05supposed to be helping his wife Emmy and his daughter Murray with a party. Instead he's on
00:09the phone trying to apply for his dream job at a lab, but unfortunately his application is rejected.
00:14After throwing a disappointed tantrum outside, Dan joins his daughter on the couch and reminds
00:18her to do what nobody else is willing to do. The family then watches an important soccer match,
00:22but the game is suddenly interrupted when a glowing cloud of smoke and electricity appears
00:26on the field and people start coming out of it. These people look like soldiers and they're led
00:30by Lieutenant Hart, who informs everyone that they come from the year 2051. An alien species known as
00:35the White Spikes have invaded Earth and most of humanity has been wiped out, so these soldiers
00:39are here to ask for people to travel to the future with them and help them fight the war.
00:42As months pass, countries all over the world send as many soldiers as they can, but it seems it's
00:47never enough, the future keeps asking for more people, and only a quarter of those who go come
00:51back. When they run out of trained soldiers, the government begins drafting civilians to join the
00:56fight. This causes riots on the streets because many people believe they shouldn't be sent to a
01:00war that doesn't affect them. Dan continues to work as a teacher, but his students don't seem
01:04too interested in what he has to teach because they don't see the point if they'll be dying anyway.
01:08The only exception is Martin, who is obsessed with volcanoes and always wants to talk about them
01:12all the time. At that moment Dan receives an important message on his phone, he's been drafted.
01:17Dan goes to the military facility and he's put through some tests that confirm he'll be able to join
01:21the fight because he'll be dead in seven years. Suddenly Dan feels a painful sensation on his arm
01:25and discovers they've put a metal device on his arm, he's informed that the device will keep track
01:30of him in the future. After seven days of touring, the device will bring him back. Afterward Dan goes
01:35to tell Emmy the news, and she immediately decides they should run away. Dan points out he can't get
01:40rid of a government tracker, so Emmy begs him to talk to his dad, who Dan hasn't seen since he was
01:44abandoned as a kid. Putting pride aside for the sake of his family, Dan goes to see his father James
01:49to ask for his help, but James thinks Dan was sent by the government to spy on him and an argument
01:53ensues. In the end, Dan has to leave with the device still attached to his arm. He returns home
01:58to give his family the bad news, but he also promises he'll be back. The next day, Dan goes
02:03to the training facility, where he befriends a scientist named Charlie and a fighter called
02:07Dorian, who is going back for his third draft. They receive basic training, which includes shooting
02:12and first aid, before they're given a full explanation of how the time travel technology works.
02:16The time link is similar to two rafts on a moving river, and a river can only move between those
02:21two points. That's why they can only travel between 2022 and 2051, those are the fixed points and they
02:26can't choose something right before the war. Sometime later, the trainees are resting in the barracks
02:31when suddenly the alarm begins ringing, it's time for them to leave. The trainees are confused because
02:35they were supposed to have seven days of training, but they're told the future can't simply choose
02:39when they need help. Once everyone has gathered, the time link is activated and a cloud like it appeared
02:44during the soccer match begins absorbing them into the future. They're supposed to be going to
02:48Miami Beach, but in the control room, something goes wrong with the output coordinates. The group
02:53appears in the sky right above the city and falls on top of a building, which causes many of them to
02:57instantly die. The remaining members manage to save themselves because they fall into a pool and they
03:01only have to swim out. The team looks down at the city of Miami and finds it in complete ruins. They don't
03:07know how to proceed, but at that moment they're contacted by a colonel, who informs them the city has been
03:11overrun by white spikes so soldiers are coming to completely bomb the place. The team's mission is to
03:16rescue a research team that is trapped inside a laboratory. The colonel knows Dan has experience
03:20in the military and puts him in charge of the team. Dan guides the team throughout the city,
03:25giving them indications of how to move properly and finding death and destruction everywhere they go.
03:29They find the lab building and when they enter it, they discover a dead alien, so Dorian takes a claw
03:33as a trophy. Further inside they find the research team, but they're all dead as part of an alien trap.
03:38The colonel asks them to retrieve all the copies of the research and to hurry because if there are bodies
03:42around, the white spikes will be back and the jet fighters are coming closer. The team rushes to
03:47pick up all the necessary items, then they start making their way downstairs as quietly as possible.
03:52However one of the guys hears a noise and when he looks up, they finally discover what white spikes
03:56look like. The alien shoots a spike from its tentacles, killing one of them, and the team
04:00immediately opens fire. Their bullets can't seem to damage the alien's thick skin, but at least it seems
04:05they can slow them down as they run down the stairs and find an exit hallway. The aliens kill and capture
04:10many team members on the way, so Dan stays at the back to defend them. Since his bullets won't work,
04:15he attacks with a fire axe, which isn't that effective either. Luckily Dorian comes to the
04:19rescue and kills the creature by teaching the team that the only weak spots are the neck and the belly.
04:23With lots of white spikes coming after them, the team runs down the streets until they find the
04:27tank that is coming to rescue them. Unfortunately the white spikes get to the tank first and destroy it.
04:32Now the team has no choice but to fight the aliens while at the same time trying to find cover.
04:36As more and more team members fall to the aliens' attack, the survivors fall inside a tunnel,
04:41and Dan stops to rescue a fallen trainee. This delays the entire team, and two of the
04:46trainees decide to stay behind and act as a shield against the aliens so the rest of the team can run
04:50away. At that moment, the jets finally arrive and bomb the entire area. Hours later, Dan and Charlie
04:56wake up in a forward operating base in the Dominic Republic. They find Dorian, who informs them the rest of
05:01the team is dead and scolds Dan for having stopped to help a fallen person which put in danger anybody else.
05:06Dorian admits he suffers from cancer, and he's learned that he's the one that gets to decide
05:10when he dies. Their talk is interrupted when Dan is requested to see the Colonel. When he hears
05:15another soldier refer to her by her surname, Dan is shocked to realize this is an older Murray.
05:19She grew up to be a scientist, and she's the lead researcher in the R-Force, which she created
05:24herself. Murray explains she didn't bring Dan to see her father again, she actually needs his help
05:29with something, in fact she acts all cold and professional around him. Then she proceeds to show
05:33him the recording of a different looking white spike. All the aliens they fought in the city
05:37were males, and this one is female. She's more aggressive and much rarer, she also nests
05:41underground. The male white spikes will die to defend her because it seems all they care about
05:46it's the survival of their species. The bombs the military use have a toxin Murray created,
05:50and so far it's been killing the male white spikes without issues. However the female alien survived that
05:55toxin, so Murray needs Dan to join the extraction team and capture a female white spike to be studied.
06:00Hopefully they can develop a stronger toxin that will kill the alien's main source of reproduction.
06:05The team gets ready and leaves in helicopters, where Murray tells Dan the story of what happened.
06:09The aliens showed up out of nowhere in Russia in 2048, somehow avoiding all satellite imagery and radar.
06:15It only took them three years to take over the world, and they don't care about material things,
06:19they just want humans as food. Dan wants to know what happened to him before he died,
06:23but Murray thinks it's better not to go down that road. Moments later, they arrive at the nest,
06:27where they find a bunch of soldiers trying to tie up the female white spike. The alien is furious
06:32and begins attacking the soldiers, killing lots of them. Murray joins them and lands a clean shot on
06:36her neck, giving the others the chance to put more rope around her and stop her from leaving.
06:40Finding herself caught, the female alien cries out to call for her protectors,
06:44and soon the area is swarmed with aliens. While the female tries to attack Murray,
06:49Dan comes down and shoots at as many aliens as he can before joining the others in the nest to help
06:53save his daughter. Together the soldiers push the female into the cage in a helicopter, but now the
06:57males are trying to attack the helicopters too to save her, even making one crash. Dan and Murray run
07:02to a jeep and start firing at the aliens to give the helicopters the chance to escape with the cage.
07:07Afterward the two of them drive at a great speed to escape the area. They stop at a beach to send
07:11an SOS flare, and Murray scolds Dan for acting without thinking. Dan just wants to protect her,
07:16but Murray doesn't believe him and explains he left the family when he was 12 because the depression of
07:20not working on what he wanted hit him hard. When she was 16, Dan was in a car accident,
07:25and Murray was at the hospital when he died. Murray is hurt by all this, and Dan has no words because
07:30he can't believe he became like his father. Suddenly he realizes he may understand James
07:34when he said that the war left him in a dark place mentally. The female white spike is taken to a
07:39fortified offshore oil platform, where the time machine is kept. She's chained and given a huge amount
07:44of sedatives every hour. Dan and Murray work together on analyzing the alien's DNA and trying to
07:48discover how she stops the toxin from killing her. It's a lot of work that takes them many days,
07:53but it also allows them to bond again and chat in a more friendly way while they share meals.
07:57The night before Dan has to leave he tells Murray that he's proud of her and that her mother would
08:01have been proud too. Dan tries to tell Murray she needs to rest and to give him more to do since he's
08:05supposed to be here to help after all. Murray takes the chance to finally explain why she bought him
08:09here, once she finds a way to make a stronger toxin, he needs to take it back to the past to mass produce it
08:14and get it ready for when the aliens arrive. That's why she's working like crazy to finish tonight,
08:18she needs to be done before he leaves. Dan doesn't want to leave Murray behind to her death,
08:23but Murray points out she called him because she's the only one she can trust. At that moment,
08:27the machine finally finishes a toxin with a 100% match for a female white spike,
08:31but it's also the moment the alien wakes up and calls for her protectors. As a bunch of male aliens
08:36arrives to attack the platform, Dan thinks they should kill the female to stop the attack,
08:40but Murray points out they only have one sample of the toxin and it could help more in the past.
08:44While the soldiers begin defending the platform the best they can and many aliens crash into the labs,
08:49Murray and Dan run around the platform to try to make it to the helipad where Dan should be for the
08:53time jump, which will happen in a few minutes. The two of them shoot lots of aliens on the way,
08:57yet Murray still gets hit by a spike. Dan tries to help her walk, but she's in too much pain,
09:02and the platform is about to go down because the aliens crashed a ship against it. Murray apologizes for
09:07being cold to Dan and after saying she loves him, she gives him the toxin, urging him to take it
09:11back to save everyone. Suddenly an alien shows up and drags Murray down with it, causing Dan to jump
09:16after her to save her. However that's the moment when the time machine activates, and the time link
09:21takes Dan, Dorian, Charlie, and the others back to the past. Thankfully the toxin is safe in Dan's
09:26hand and the vial doesn't break. Charlie is fine, but he confesses he stayed hidden like a coward.
09:31Dan tells Hart they need to mass produce the toxin and send it to the future to kill all the aliens,
09:35but Hart is bad news, the time machine isn't working anymore, probably because the aliens on
09:40the oil platform have destroyed the other end of it. They can't go back ever again, meaning it's all
09:44over. Dan returns home and barely can believe he gets to be with his family again, he's still in
09:49shock because of everything he went through. At night he can't sleep, and he keeps visiting Murray
09:53to confirm she's alive. When Emmy checks on him, Dan shares what happened with older Murray,
09:58and he's still determined to find a solution to all this. Emmy helps him see the facts they have,
10:02they know the aliens attacked Russia in 2048, but nobody sees the ships arrive. Maybe that's the
10:07year they start moving, but they arrive before, and nobody notices because it's in the middle of
10:11a frozen nowhere in Russia. So they need to start looking at years before that. The next day,
10:16Dan immediately jumps into action. He visits Dorian and convinces him this isn't over yet,
10:21then they take Dorian's trophy claw to the lab Charlie works at. Charlie confirms there's sediment on
10:25the claw that looks like volcanic ash that came from either China or Korea. They don't understand how Asian
10:30ash can end up in Russia, meaning they need to ask a volcano expert. Next Dan goes to see his student
10:35Martin, who explains there was a huge volcanic eruption in Asia thousands of years ago, if the
10:40ash was blown by the wind it could have gotten caught in Russian waters, which eventually became ice.
10:44This means the creatures have always been here on earth, frozen under hundreds of layers of ice,
10:48that's why they never saw the ships arrive. The reason why they wake up in 2048 is that's when
10:53climate change finally finishes melting all the polar ice. They take this theory to the government,
10:57but since they don't have any proof, they aren't given the resources to find the alien nest.
11:01They need to do this the illegal way, and Dan knows just the right person, his father James,
11:06who has been living off the grid for years and has his own plane. Hearing Dan say I need
11:10your help convinces James to help with the mission, no matter how crazy it sounds. Dan also gets in
11:15contact with Hart, who worked with Murray in the future and is ready to finish her beloved leader's
11:18mission. Hart brings a few soldiers with her, plus plenty of weapons and some copies of the toxin.
11:23The team travels to Russia, and Charlie promises this time he won't hide. When they make it to the
11:28Academy of Sciences Glacier, they begin looking around the area for signs of anything strange.
11:33They stop when they discover their machines are going crazy because there's a weird magnetic field
11:37surrounding them. Using lots of explosives, the team opens a hole in the ground and enters an ancient
11:41cavern, where they finally find the frozen spaceship. Dan points out that entering the ship is extremely
11:46dangerous and they could go tell the government they've found proof, but everyone agrees the government
11:50has been useless and it's up to them to make things right. They use a chainsaw to cut through
11:54the ice and the team enters the ship while leaving Charlie and James outside in case something tries
11:58to escape. The group reaches the cockpit and realizes this is a crash site, the aliens never
12:03intended Earth to be their destination. Surprisingly the body of the pilot isn't a white spike. They go
12:08into another room and find the actual white spikes inside a series of biopods, which makes them
12:12realize their cargo, their bioengineered creatures that were used by the pilot's alien race as weapons
12:17to colonize other planets. The team begins injecting the pods with the toxin and watches the white spikes
12:22wriggling in pain, confirming the toxin kills them. However their cries also wake up the aliens that
12:26haven't been injected yet, causing them to break their pods and attack. The team shoots as many as
12:31they can, but some of them manage to escape. Dorian points out they have no choice but to blow up the
12:36ship, so he gives Dan his claw and accepts to stay behind to activate the bomb once everyone is out.
12:41James begins shooting at the aliens that escape, but Charlie's weapon gets stuck and he begins killing the
12:45creatures with a chainsaw. Dan makes it outside and warns them to run away while hard and the others
12:50are swarmed by a huge colony of aliens. Not being able to wait anymore, Dorian makes the bomb explode,
12:55bringing everyone creature down with him and dying on his terms like he wanted. Dan, Charlie, and James
13:00get out of the cavern before the explosion hits them, but James explains he saw an alien with a red
13:05belly escape. Dan realizes that's the female, so they split up to go after her. The queen finds one of
13:10them and attacks, but it turns out it's a snowman covered in clothes that James put up as a trap.
13:15When the queen goes after him instead, Dan shows up to hit her with his snowmobile. Then father and
13:20son being shooting together until they push the queen off the edge of the cliff. They know she
13:24isn't dead yet though and get ready for her return. When the queen attacks again, she pushes them to
13:29separate them, then shoots a spike at Dan before going after him. Dan uses that same spike to stab
13:34her mouth and James uses the chance to hit her with an axe, leaving her blind. The queen begins thrashing
13:39around in desperation and Dan takes the chance to inject the toxin into her leg. However the queen removes that
13:44leg so the toxin can't spread in her body. When the queen tries to go after Dan, he gets a grenade
13:49ready to bring her down with him. But at that moment, James raises his wounded hand to make
13:53the alien smell his blood and go after him instead. Dan refuses to lose his father after they reunited,
13:58so he jumps on the queen and slices her neck with Dorian's claw. After hitting her a few more times,
14:03he takes out the last vial of toxin and inserts it in her mouth before kicking her down the cliff again.
14:08The queen crashes against a big rock and finally dies. The next day, newscasts all over the world
14:13report an explosion in Russia that killed a bunch of aliens, and the government tries to take credit
14:17for it. Dan returns home and reunites with his family, finally allowing James to meet his
14:21granddaughter. Now they can all work together for a better future.
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