Tom Cruise

Emily Blunt

Brendan Gleeson

Bill Paxton

Jonas Armstrong

Tony Way

Kick Gurry

Franz Drameh

Dragomir Mrsic

Charlotte Riley

Masayoshi Haneda

Terence Maynard

Noah Taylor

Lara Pulver

Madeleine Mantock

Assly Zandry

Sebastian Blunt

Beth Goddard

Ronan Summers

Aaron Romano

Usman Akram

Bentley Kalu

Mairead McKinley

Andrew Neil

Martin Hyder

Tommy Campbell

John Dutton

Harry Landis

Rachel Handshaw

Martin McDougall

Anna Botting

Jane Hill

Erin Burnett

Danny Kushmaro

David Kaye

Johnny Otto

Stuart Matthews

Lamin Tamba

Philip Harvey

Susana Torres

Joby Harold

Hidemi Fukuhara

Jason Hoffs

Hiroshi Sakurazaka

Doug Liman

Christopher McQuarrie

Erwin Stoff

Jez Butterworth

Dion Beebe

James Herbert

Lucinda Syson

Christophe Beck

Gregory Jacobs

Oliver Scholl

Jeffrey Silver

Tom Lassally

John-Henry Butterworth

Dave Bartis

Jason Knox-Johnston

Pollyanna Seath

Jess Lewington

Elli Griff

Jonathan Fawkner

Matt Kasmir

Stephen Swain

Terry Heggarty

Lisa Vick

Matt Middleton

Jeffrey D. Simon

Christian Huband

Graeme Purdy

Kate Hawley

Ravi Bansal

Will Coubrough

Jordana Finkel

Gary Brozenich

Diane Kingston

Dominic Gibbs

Dan Grace

Alastair Bullock

Robert Hochstoeger

Ben Meechan

Gary Tomkins

Peter Burgis

Chuck Finch

Jason Swanscott

Philip Greenlow

Mark Harris

Kim Phelan

Dan Morgan

Allen Cappuccilli

Neil Weatherley

Karl Herbst

Stephane Paris

Liana Jackson

Artemis Oikonomopoulou

Laura Jennings

Alex Rouse

Steve Nichols

David James

Daryl Sawchuk

Jaap Buitendijk

Mark Burton

Katherine Tibbetts

Michael White

Peter Field

Stefan Stankowski

Michael Fentum

James Shannon

Sylvia Parker

Conor Byrne

Dan Whitty

Rose Crocker

Damien Beebe

Andy Stevens

Peter Robertson

Adam Dale

Christof Roche-Gordon

Steve Harvey

Amanda Pettett

Alexis Wajsbrot

Jacqueline Bhavnani

Julian Morson

Carmen Tabanyi

Oliver Loncraine

Samantha C. Kirkeby

Francesco Alberico

Fran Needham

Mark Moriarty

Andrew Dearnley

Caroline Bowker

Liam Steel

Eamonn Butler

Ailbhe Lemass

Zoe Clare Brown

Pete Romano

Amanda Cox

Hayley Easton Street

Jessica Brooks

Action

Science Fiction

Edge of Tomorrow

RatPac Entertainment

Village Roadshow Pictures

VIZ Media

3 Arts Entertainment

Warner Bros. Pictures

United States of America

English

deja vu

based on novel or book

restart

military officer

dystopia

affectation

training

alien

time loop

soldier

alien invasion

war hero

exoskeleton

frantic

thoughtful

somber

complex

anxious

soldiers

intimate

understated

sentimental

intense

romantic

admiring

adoring

audacious

commanding

defiant

dignified

earnest

empathetic

hopeful

sincere

2020s

Andres Gomez

Interesting enough and with a decent script for this kind of Sci-Fi movies. The FX are also OK.

Tom Cruise does an OK job and Emily Blunt nails her character, being the brightest thing in screen every time she appears.

Not a bad movie, got kind of sick of the "ground hog day" effect. Could have used less of that, all in all pretty enjoyable to watch.

Per Gunnar Jonsson

I have to say that this movie was surprisingly enjoyable. I did have my doubts about it. I always have doubts about movies that manipulate time. I guess one advantage the movie has is that it does not really involve time travel and changing the past to influence the future but “only” resetting a day and living it over and over again.

The entire concept is of course still totally ludicrous. Even if we forget about the feasibility about resetting time altogether there are just so many things that are wrong with the concept. For example, is time reset all over the universe or just on Earth? Both of those avenues create their own issues further down the line of course. Even if we try to forget these larger issues there are the issue that as soon as Cage altered his own behavior from one repetition of that day to another he would alter the chain of events and what he knew was the events in the previous repeat would no longer be certain in the one he was living right then. Not to mention that he had a longer and longer chain of people to convince on a single day and still get the job done.

Okay, enough harping about that. If you manage to lock out all these annoying issues with the story what remains is, as I wrote before, actually a fairly enjoyable movie. It is primarily a science fiction action movie of course and the action as well as special effects are not bad at all. We get treated to plenty of the classical déjà vu scenes were Cage tries to convince people by predicting their immediate future in minute details. Classical and very not innovative but well done and I have to admit that I am a bit of a sucker for these impress-and-surprise someone scenes. On the whole the movie managed to use the basic concept of reliving the day and make it feel reasonable fresh despite it not being a entirely new idea. The fact that the acting was quite adequate and that both Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt made a good performance as far as I am concerned of course helped.

Naturally the movie builds up towards the climactic battle against the alien central organism and of course everyone (who Cage managed to convince) have to throw in their lives to get Cage in position for the final attack. Personally I liked the ending although I have to say that I was a bit miffed that the writer did not manage to come up with some more imaginative ending scene between Cage and Rita though.

Bottom line, an enjoyable movie well worth watching.

Grant English

What makes Edge of Tomorrow's 'failure' a bit surprising is how many of us have always wondered - what would happen if you put Groundhog Day in the context of an invasion of Earth by aliens keen on destroying the human race? Okay...so bad example. 

This is about action, killing aliens, and getting in as many 'gallows humor' one-liners as possible. And I realize it tanked in the theaters (relatively speaking) but (I can't believe I'm going to say this)...

But it's a fun movie. It's entertaining, the directing is sharp and quick. In Groundhog Day, about the 4th time you "I Got You Babe" you are screaming at the film - "WE GET IT!!! MOVE THE STORY ALONG!!" That never happens in Edge of Tomorrow. Each cycle through, the story advances and another layer is revealed. The director seems to get that the audience is smart and they can keep up.

Tom Cruise is well, he's Tom Cruise. But Emily Blunt is fantastic in the film. 

The ending was a bit of a head-scratcher. Won't spoil it here but the rest of the movie works and thought it was very entertaining. It's a fun action movie - and there's nothing wrong with that.

Resetting the day.

Edge of Tomorrow is directed by Doug Liman and collectively written by Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth. It stars Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, with music by Christophe Beck and cinematography by Dion Beebe.

It has proved to be a great decade for sci-f, it seems that for every misfire there are three great genre films to off set the disappointments. Sitting at the top end of the table is Edge of Tomorrow (AKA: Live Die Repeat). Adapted from Hiroshi Sakurazaka's novel "All You Need Is Kill", the story has Cruise as William Cage, an American army Major who upon being thrust into combat against an alien race decimating Earth, finds he awakens to the same day after being killed in action. Seeking out Rita (Blunt), the most decorated soldier of the time, Cage must understand what is happening to him and hopefully save the future of mankind.

So far so Groundhog Day/Source Code then, but Liman's film never lets up from the get go, frenetic with its action, funny into the bargain, and also sexy, it manages to blend audience pleasing conventions with clever thought and process. There's nothing new in the philosophy on show, and there are regular sci-fi tropes for familiarity of genre, but if you are going to recycle formula then do it with verve and swagger, which this most assuredly does. Boosted by Cruise turning in a good one as an unlikable character who develops into a protag to shout for, and Blunt as a super sexy bad-ass poster girl for the war effort, Edge of Tomorrow ultimately rocks. The science will obviously infuriate those who take such things way too seriously, but as the terror of this particular war unfolds on screen (nifty effects), and we have been bought wholesale into our heroes and their quest, its small failings are hardly worth cocking a snook at. 8/10

On your feet, maggot! The idea of resetting time is being fully explored and adds to the action – and who doesn’t like to see Tom Cruise die over and over again?

9/10

The Movie Mob

**Exceptional performances, effects, story, and pacing round out this amazing film making it worth Live, Watch, and Repeating.**

Edge of Tomorrow (or Live. Die. Repeat.) is an exhilarating mash-up of time-loops, alien invasions, war, and post-apocalyptic humanity struggling for survival. Add Tom Cruise’s charismatic coward to champion and Emily Blunt’s battle-hardened warrior into that mix, and this movie soars from a cool idea to an astonishing sci-fi epic! The pacing was excellent, which can be tricky in time-loop movies, but Doug Liman masterfully guides the story and Cruise’s character arc hitting just the right beats. The movie stays engaged as the story still jumps from challenge to challenge and location to location while in the time-loop keeping the movie fresh and exciting. The performances, directing, writing, and pacing make Edge of Tomorrow an underrated treasure.

End of the world groundhog day sci-fi monster movie. Tom Cruise playing an utter coward, at least in the beginning, is a refreshing change. This is one of those 'repeat incident' movies you have to keep watching, just to see what's going to change next time around. Oh, and the alien beasts, more over the way they move, are utterly terrifying. Unfortunately, the out-of-step ending leaves you thinking "Wait, what?"

Filipe Manuel Neto

**An effective film that works reasonably well, but still feels like a pretext for massive CGI.**

In recent years, it seems to have become a convention that it takes an insane amount of special effects to make a good movie. There are a lot of movies that look like excuses or pretexts for a ton of effects, CGI and amazing graphics, without great content to give them a solid foundation. This film, where we have an alien invasion and a soldier who discovers he can control time and relive the same day over and over again, is essentially another one for this list.

In fact, the film feels like a cross between “Stargate” and “Groundhog Day”. It's a little preposterous in its premise, stretching the laws of physics to near fraying. The invasion of aliens is nothing new, even that idea of a single organism, with a single mind that needs to be killed. The thing is, despite the huge amount of action, it all feels pretty empty. The film compensates for this with a pleasant pace and puts a lot of effort into the effects, CGI and technical aspects.

Tom Cruise is in his element. He is again a likeable soldier, very cute and good looking, pleasing to the female audience. I don't like him as an actor, and this movie won't change my opinion of him. Emily Blunt does a decent job, but it will never be the best of the actress, who doesn't seem to have been cut out for action movies at all. Bill Paxton, Brendan Gleeson and Jonas Armstrong provide effective and welcome support, but little else. Their characters are not well developed and are incidental.

An alien invasion in Europe combined with a Groundhog Day concept, Tom Cruise repeats the same day over and over. Starting the movie as a coward, he slowly goes through his hero's journey becoming a brave hero on his quest tp save humanity from fast-moving parasitic aliens with long gross tentacles. Emily Blunt adds great acting and good chemistry with Cruise on set. The special effects are detailed and fun, especially with the exoskeletons on soldiers and the aliens themselves. Definitely a top sci-fi and worth watching.

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A review by Andres Gomez

Written by Andres Gomez on Thu Sep 25 2014

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