Je viens du futur. Si vous ne m'écoutez pas, voilà ce qui va se passer Translation
Le Visiteur du Futur
(The Visitor from the Future) is a 2022 science-fiction comedy film written and directed by François Descraques. It is the long-gestating and long-awaited theatrical film sequel to the 2009-2014 web-series of the same name. Most of the series' main cast returned alongside some newcomers, and characters from the La Meute novel and from the La Brigade Temporelle manga also have their first live-action appearances here.2555. In a devastated future, the apocalypse threatens the Earth. The last hope rests on a man who can travel through time and his companions. His mission: to return to the past and change the course of events. His target: Gilbert Alibert, a deputy who is about to validate the construction of a nuclear power plant with the Chinese company Axomako. This event in the present will cause the explosion of the power plant in the future, creating a radioactive cloud killing half the world's population every 70 years.
But the Visitor will have to manage both the Time Brigade, which tracks him down in every era, but also Gilbert's daughter, Alice, who refuses the sacrifice of her father to save the future. Then begins a race against time for Visitor.
This film provides examples of the following tropes:
- The Alcoholic: Gilbert drinks very often and died from his alcoholism less than a decade after the events of the movie (in the original timeline).
- Calling the Old Man Out:
- Alice calls out Gilbert about the nuclear power plant project at a press conference.
- She later calls him out on his drinking on several occasions.
- Death by Childbirth: Alice's mother died when she was born. Gilbert is single and Alice is his only child.
- Geographic Flexibility: As the action is set in a devastated "future" Paris, some characters walk randomly to the orphans' territory, the one place that was mentioned before and that the Visitor wanted to avoid.
- Hope Spot: Gilbert is eventually convinced to not sign the contract to allow Axomako to build the nuclear power plant, which means the nuclear apocalypse had been prevented while the Visitor didn't had to murder him. Getting someone to genuinely change their personality and/or future plans is also considered a kind of time alteration the Time Brigade isn't allowed to revert. However, Constance refuses to accept this and stuck to the initial timeline, forcing Gilbert to sign the contract anyway.
- Kid from the Future: Played with. What follows reveals part of the ending. Alice travels back to the time of her birth, and prevents her own birth from happening while saving her mother's life.
- Never Trust a Trailer: The trailer contains the scene where Constance states the Time Brigade's mission is to ensure nothing changes past events, immediately followed by footages from the scene where the Visitor is in a World War One battlefield, implying his plan to save the future included changing something during the Great War. In the scene actual context, the Visitor merely jumped to the era to dump Matteo there, to make sure Matteo wouldn't be in the way while fighting the other Time Brigade goon.
- No Honor Among Thieves: The Time Police agents keep fighting each other instead of effectively working together, and blaming each other for their failures.
- Our Zombies Are Different: Henry mentions the existence of both zombies (caused by radiation or something) and the infected (caused by a virus), also known as running zombies. The film only features the slow ones.
- Shout-Out:
- A man from the Time Brigade calls a group of orphan kids dressed with animal pelts "lost children" in a way that sounds like the Lost Boys from Peter Pan.
- The scene at the bar seems to including many shoutouts, including an obvious one from Mad Max: Fury Road.
- Time Police: The Time Brigade, who act as effective villains. They will do everything to prevent risking a Temporal Paradox.
- Your Normal Is Our Taboo: In the future, an adult tells the kids to have dinner with their elbows on the tablenote . This is probably meant as a joke and has no consequences.
