Spoiler Alert! If you don’t wish to know the story before you see the movie, then don’t read the following article as it contains details from the Tomorrow Movie.

The Tomorrow Movie starts out with the main female character Elllie Linton, asking some of her friends to go on a camping trip to a remote area of bushland the locals call “Hell”. Six of her friends; Corrie McKenzie, Homer Yanos, Kevin Holmes, Fiona Maxwell, Lee Takkam and Robyn Mathers decide to join her for a few days of camping well away from the township of Wirrawee.

It just so happens that the town’s annual Commemorative Day show is being held at the time they are away, so none of the teens think it strange when they see a lot of planes flying overhead while they’re away camping, assuming they must be part of the show’s aeronautical events.

When they return home from their trip the group are dismayed to find that Ellie’s dog is dead from dehydration and the house is abandoned. The phone line is dead and there’s no power or radio reception.

They decide to go to Homer’s property next door, and are met with the same scenario; house is deserted. They then start theorising about what may have happened to their families. The teenagers come to the conclusion that maybe the planes they heard flying overhead when they were camping might have something to do with the situation they now found themselves in; that maybe the town has been invaded.

The group wait until dark to venture out to check on the others’ homes only to find them all abandoned. They use trail bikes to get to Robyn’s house where they can see the showground from the hill behind her home. Homer suggests they split up into pairs; Homer and Fi; Robyn and Lee; and Kevin, Corrie and Ellie. And set about investigating the town and the rest of their homes.

Kevin, Corrie and Ellie walk into town under the shadow of trees. From their vantage point they can see the showground. Ellie gets a bit closer to the showground by hiding under a truck and can see various members of the groups’ family being held captive by the enemy force, realising now that the town has been taken over. Unfortunately she gets spotted by enemy soldiers who start firing shots in her direction. The three teens run for their lives into the yard of Mrs Anderson’s home while still being chased and shot at by soldiers.

Thinking quickly, Ellie comes up with the idea to turn the ride on mower in the yard into a  petrol bomb in order to avoid getting captured. Once the explosion is over, Ellie is distressed to discover one of the soldiers she has killed is a girl not much older than herself.

The story continues on with Robyn and Lee not making it back to Robyn’s house. The group decides to wait until the next night to find them as it’s too dangerous to be out and about during the day. They return to Corries house and while there an enemy helicoptor circles the house at close range near ground level to see if there’s any movement. It leaves and minutes later the teens hear an enemy jet approaching and run from the house seconds before it is destroyed.

That night they go back into town to find Lee and Robyn. Lee has been shot in the leg and to get him out, Ellie uses a front loader garbage truck, and Lee hops into the front sccop of the truck. Robyn is in the front cab with Ellie as she tries to outrun and escape the soldiers who are chasing them in jeeps. When the enemy crash their jeeps after a pretty action-packed chase they catch up with the others and also find another friend of theirs, Chris, who had been in hiding at his home since the invasion.

The group decide to make Hell their base camp and decide to form a guerilla type army to try and slow down the enemy forces’ hold on the town. They come up with a plan to blow up the bridge leading into town that is used by the enemy forces, so Ellie and Fi steal a petrol tanker and drive it to the bridge while the rest of them cause a distraction to the enemy sentry guarding the bridge by spooking some cattle grazing nearby and getting them to stampede across the bridge.

It ‘s a very tense scene as the enemy soldiers sneak up on the girls waiting in the tanker for the go-ahead from the boys, however Fi had turned off the walkie-talkie and so contact couldn’t be made. Just as the enemy soldiers are about to get the girls, virtuous Robyn has to make a snap decision that goes against every fibre of her being in order to save the girls from the enemy soldiers. (This is where the Tomorrow When The War Began movie starts to differ greatly from the original story in the book.)

The group manage to carry out the blowing up of the bridge, but not before one of them gets shot and has to be taken into hospital. You’ll have to see the movie to find out who it is (I can’t give everything away) and the rest of the group return to their base camp, Hell.

The Tomorrow Movie is filled with lots of action and adventure, with a bit of romance thown in for good measure. It’s also a movie that causes the characters to reflect on the choices they are forced to make in order to save themselves from possible capture. It’s sure to prove a crowd pleaser at the box office.