Edge of Tomorrow is an action movie that came out in 2014.
This film is based on the Japanese novel, All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi
Sakurazaka. This film was directed by Doug Liman and starred Tom Cruise and Emily
Blunt. This film grossed about $369 million worldwide.
This
movie takes place during a war between humans and aliens. This war starts after
aliens called mimics show up and invade Europe. They quickly take over all of
Europe and threaten to take over the entire world. However the United Defense
Force invents a new, advanced exoskeleton battle suit. The United Defense Force
plans to equip a ton of soldiers with this battle suit and invade the beach of
France. The head of the United Defense Force orders Major Cage to go with the
invasion and cover it for the media. After refusing to do this, Major Cage gets
knocked out and wakes up in an army base full of soldiers getting ready for the
invasion.
Somehow
the aliens knew that the humans were going to invade and had a large defense
waiting for them. The invasion goes terribly for the humans as they just get
constantly slaughtered by the powerful aliens. As Cage dies, he kills a large,
blue mimic and gets sprayed with the alien’s blood. He then wakes up at the
army base just like he had the day before. He tries to tell everyone that the
invasion is going to fail but no one believes him. He then relieves the
invasion over and over again and every time he dies, he wakes up at the army
base again. He eventually meets this girl who tells him that he keeps coming
back because he killed an alpha alien and got its blood on him. She also tells
him that there is an Omega alien that acts as the alien’s hive mind. She tells
him that they have to hunt down this Omega alien and kill it because it is the
only way that they can win the war.
I
really enjoyed this movie. The premise that someone could come back from the
dead and try their day over again is a really cool idea. I really liked all the
comedy aspects of this film as well. The squad that Cage was forced to join was
filled with really funny people. Also the captain of the squad was the stereotypical
type of captain. He was really weird when he was talking about combat and stuff
but also took no nonsense from his squad. He was one of those captains that was
hard to take seriously because he was so weird. Another comedic part of this
film was the ways that he died. He often would die in kind of funny ways and it
was also funny watching him try to convince his squad of what had happened but
no one would ever believe him. One thing that I wonder about this movie was how
many times did he have to restart his day? Every time you saw him already know
that something was going to happen, it meant that he had been there already and
failed at it once.
One
thing that I kind of didn’t like about this movie was the ending. I didn’t
understand how he got to wake up after the Omega had died. I know that he got
covered in the alpha’s blood but that doesn’t explain why he woke up earlier
than he had woken up all the other times. Also the only reason that he woke up
the other times was because of the Omega so I don’t understand why it happened
when the Omega was dead. Also it doesn’t make sense that he went back in time
but the Omega was still dead after he woke up. To me this just felt like a cop out way to keep the character alive at the end of the movie to make the
audience happy. However I would have rather had him die at the end and had a
different ending shot.
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