Torrents of gunfire and explosions surround. We’re dropped into a battlefield of digital effects with the fate of the world at stake. The sheer cinematic gold of Blunt repeatedly blowing Cruise’s brains out, in order to reset the day whenever something goes wrong, never gets old.”ĪBC News (US): ” The time-shifting sci-fi thriller “Edge of Tomorrow” has perfectly encapsulated what it is to be a summertime moviegoer. Blunt and Cruise invest a great deal of heart in their action heroics, thankfully minimising the hokum romance angle. A later scene in a devastated Paris is also fantastic, with the frenetic pace rarely letting up, but Liman deftly orchestrates the destruction, ensuring it doesn’t sink into mind-numbing Transformers fare. The trippy time reset switch is a hoot, and the 3D graphics are mind-blowingly fierce, particularly in the devastating beach battle that plays out as a gore-censored but nevertheless bone-shuddering Saving Private Ryan. Noah Taylor, Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt in Edge of Tomorrow.
It’s revealed she once shared Cage’s newfound power and, with the help of Noah Taylor’s bumbling astrophysicist turned mechanic, she has a plan to seek out the Mimics’ all-controlling Starship Troopers-style brain bug, the Omega.
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Slowly but surely, Cage learns how to fight, seeking out the aid of war hero Rita, played with Looper-like hard assery by the always-fabulous Emily Bunt. What could have been monotonous is kept lively by rapid editing, often playing visual jokes with what has gone before and incrementally moving the story forward, sometimes in giant leaps. Each time he dies, he finds himself right back at the start of battle with the events reset and able to be altered.Ĭruise is unrecognisably self-deprecating here, with the film overtly poking fun at his diminutive stature in these early battle scenes during which he’s clearly a useless civilian getting wiped out repeatedly. Thankfully, a bit of sci fi hocus pocus means that a suicidal blast from Cage, aimed at wiping out one of the big bad tumbleweed/octopus-cross aliens results in its blood giving him bizarre Groundhog Day powers. Heading into the fray with a bunch of die-hard commando-types, it soon turns out that they’ve been expected, and the Normandy-like beach landing is an all-out slaughter that’s set to wipe out humanity’s last stand. Rather quickly, however, an abrasive brush with army bigwig General Brigham (Brendan Gleeson) sees cage unceremoniously demoted and sent packing to a Heathrow Airport military base where he’s suited up in a very Alien-like battle skeleton, or ‘jacket,’ to be sent to the front line on the beaches across the Channel in France. Cruise plays William Cage, a former ad exec press-ganged into becoming the world defence army’s spin-doctor. It boasts a cracking script from Christopher McQuarrie, more along the lines of The Usual Suspects than his less impressive recent trio of Jack the Giant Slayer and Cruise vehicles Jack Reacher and Valkyrie. He’s working here in collaboration with brothers Jez and John-Henry Butterworth, who worked with Liman on Fair Game.Ĭruise is unrecognisably self-deprecating here, with the film overtly poking fun at his diminutive stature …Īs Edge of Tomorrow opens, the Earth has all but fallen to alien invaders called the Mimics, who crash land via the very 1950s B-movie convention asteroid and have lain waste to Europe.
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