Edge of Tomorrow
If you like to see Tom Cruise die horrible deaths over and over again, then Edge of Tomorrow is right up your alley. The movie is best thought of as the bastard son of Groundhog’s Day and The Battle of LA with Tom Cruise forever running into horrible deaths.
This movie evokes many other movies beyond Groundhog’s Day repeat until you get it right premise. There’s Aliens with the sergeant played by Bill Paxton leading the rag tag group of soldiers with a large ‘Tank’ type and a ‘Vazquez’ type as well. Then there’s Matrix with the Mimic enemy looking like the tentacle bots. For me, it reminded me of the Endless Eight debacle from season 2 of Haruhi.
Nice movie. Failing at the box office. You’ll catch this on HBO in December. It could be interesting. It could be non-boring. It’s a summer movie. At least it isn’t Transformers.
3 of 5 stars.
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Saw this. Thought the same thing about the story line but I still dug it. I like Tom's dedication to action. He still makes it look so easy and Emily Blunt was pretty Terminator II-like.
I want an exoskeleton for Xmas.
I think it could've been better. Too derivative and nothing to make it stand out against a raft of other scifli flicks.
I find when I focus on Tom Cruise being Tom Cruise, I enjoy his films. He's a silly guy because he seems to be so serious and yet he's winking at you in his performances. This was right up his alley as a film.