![]() ![]() But it's not bad, and it's certainly good enough not to besmirch the fun of what's gone before it. It's tough getting out of a scenario like this. The ending, as is so often the case in films like this, doesn't quite live up to the rest of the movie. She's a fighter, not a lover, as Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney never used to say. Blunt's good, too, but their chemistry is necessarily muted for much of the movie. He makes the transition from snotty superior to selfless soldier in convincing form, and he still has that million-dollar smile. It's a great chance for Cruise to remind us why people used to like him so much in the first place. This could have been dull or repetitive, but Liman strikes just the right balance between comedy and drama, with deaths that are sometimes gruesome, sometimes necessary (he has to die to reset the day a grave wound won't do it) and, sorry, sometimes just funny. When he's injured she simply kills him, and they begin the day again. It will require Cage to perform like a real soldier during the film's most-entertaining segment, she leads him through grueling training sessions and shows him how to fight. And she thinks she knows how to use this power to defeat the enemy. He does, and she has the explanation for Cage's ability to reset the day. The cycle repeats, with Cage gradually learning from his mistakes, making it a little further each day till he's killed - and saving Rita, who, during one day, tells him to find her when he wakes up. But it's such an entertaining mashup of ideas so beautifully executed, so who cares? Yes, it sounds like a violent "Groundhog Day," and no, that's not the only movie it cribs from. Farell (Bill Paxton) and be led into battle, with similarly disastrous results. Then a weird thing happens: Cage wakes up on the base where he was deposited and begins the previous day over, where he will again face off with Master Sgt. Cage soon is on the front lines, part of a huge D-Day-like invasion (on a beach in France, no less) - for a couple of minutes, until he's slaughtered along with the rest of the UDF soldiers, Rita included. Cage argues that he isn't a soldier, not really, but you don't get to be the commander of UDF troops by compromising. Brigham (Brendan Gleeson) proves pretty wily, too, and orders Cage into battle as a PR stunt. Whatever the case, it's convincing.)īut Gen. Cage is arrogant and slick, a born salesman, traits that Cruise has been playing for years and still pulls off with ease. Rita's success is just what UDF public-relations officer William Cage (Cruise) needs to persuade more people to enlist. The creatures, called Mimics, have their way with humanity until a battle in France, in which a lightly trained woman named Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt) leads the United Defense Force to a stunning victory, earning the nickname "Angel of Verdun" (along with more colorful titles). In the future, an alien race has attacked Earth. ![]() His film is a terrific summer entertainment, and it gives us another chance to note that Tom Cruise, for whatever you may think of his antics off-screen, remains an underrated actor on-screen. Neat tricks, all, courtesy of director Doug Liman. "Edge of Tomorrow" repeats itself without being repetitive, takes itself seriously while providing some laughs and offers plenty of action without short-changing us on the intelligence front. ![]()
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