Edge of Tomorrow [Spoilers]

[Veltigar]

Edge of Tomorrow (starring Tom cruise & Emily Blunt, directed by Doug Liman of 'Bourne' fame) has hit the theatres today. It looks like a fun sci-fi movie. It's based on a Japanese Manga/novel called 'All you need is kill' by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. The movie has been pitched as Groundhog Day meets Starship troopers. I'll include the blurb here:

A soldier fighting in a war with aliens finds himself caught in a time loop of his last day in the battle, though he becomes better skilled along the way.

trailer:

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2198710297/

I have been looking forward to this all year. It's seems to be a solid sci-fi movie and I hope it performs well (but since there is a lack of buzz probably not going to happen). The first reviews I saw seem to be very favorable. Stuckmann on youtube gave it an A , he was really gushing about it.

And another (spoilerfree) one "5 reasons to watch EoT"

[drawkcabi]

I love any Groundhog Day type movie or TV show, I am looking forward to this. Not a Cruise fan, but he keeps making movies I want to see at least somewhat, this I really want to see.

[Grand Moff Mithrandir]

The trailer looks good and I like the look of their armour.

[all swedes are racist]

I love any Groundhog Day type movie or TV show, I am looking forward to this. Not a Cruise fan, but he keeps making movies I want to see at least somewhat, this I really want to see.

Yeah, I feel you, but this review pretty much sold me on this:

"...and she gets to shoot Tom Cruise in the head like 45 times. It's amazing."

[drawkcabi]

Yeah, I feel you, but this review pretty much sold me on this:

"...and she gets to shoot Tom Cruise in the head like 45 times. It's amazing."

Woo Hoo!

[RedEyedGhost]

As I said in the other thread about this, I really wish Tom Cruise wasn't in this, but I'll still be there opening weekend. The book was great, although this obviously won't be a very faithful adaptation. And the closer we get to its release the more I'm okay with that. The concept itself just has so much potential for the big screen.

[WarGalley]

Yeah I've been hating on Tom Cruise in recent years but I can't really find an objective reason why. His movie selection isn't too bad. Yeah, I'm not interested in another Mission Impossible movie, Jack Reacher didn't do much for me, and War of the Worlds was quite boring. But those movies weren't awful. Oblivion was pretty good and I'm a big fan of Collateral, Last Samurai, and Minority Report.

Reviews for this look good (92% RT rating with 25 reviews). That's very similar to DotFP but we'll see how this one holds. It'll be hard for me to pass up a good sci-fi movie.

Also, they're making Top Gun 2!? When did that happen?

[Veltigar]

Yeah I've been hating on Tom Cruise in recent years but I can't really find an objective reason why. His movie selection isn't too bad. Yeah, I'm not interested in another Mission Impossible movie, Jack Reacher didn't do much for me, and War of the Worlds was quite boring. But those movies weren't awful. Oblivion was pretty good and I'm a big fan of Collateral, Last Samurai, and Minority Report.

Reviews for this look good (92% RT rating with 25 reviews). That's very similar to DotFP but we'll see how this one holds. It'll be hard for me to pass up a good sci-fi movie.

Also, they're making Top Gun 2!? When did that happen?

I've grown up on Cruise movies (particularly Top Gun and the Last Samurai) and I always mentally told myself that Cruise stopped making movies after Collateral (2004). Everything he did after that was underwelming and that's an understatement (except his small role in Tropic Thunder). And then all of a sudden he did 'Oblivion', not a masterpiece, but a nice little blockbuster imo and I started to hope again.

Then I saw the trailers to EoT and I got really excited (big fan of Emily Blunt, so that helps). The movie just looks fun and I hope he's back on track. Interesting that they'll make a new Top Gun, I have hope that it's going to be a good story, Tom Cruise really doesn't need the money so that makes it less lickely that it's a cheap cashgrab by a greedy studio.

[jet199]

I saw it on preview and it is a good, fun film. Tom Cruise is very watchable.

[Liffguard]

Just got back from seeing it. Pretty impressed overall. Good action, good atmosphere. Surprisingly funny at times. As an extremely minor criticism, the music played over the end credits was an awful, jarring choice.

[Mexal]

I'm actually really surprised at all the positive buzz on this one. Starting to look forward to it.

[Veltigar]

This movie was just great! I went in with high expectations and I wasn't disappointed. Everybody should go watch this!

What I liked:

1) Emily Blunt. She just completely convinced me as a tough as nails action hero. She was really a female badass done right. At the same time, she oozed vunerability and hurt, which her character must have been. And during all of this, she still managed to look amazing (those big blue eyes, they just do something to you. Especially when you're a guy ;) ). We really need to see more of her, not just in this movie, but everywhere.

2) Tom Cruise is back y'all. As a nineties kid, I grew up on Cruise movies (things like Top Gun and the Last Samurai) and I feel like he hasn't been the leading man in a movie since 2004's collateral. In fact from 2004 on ward he only played in really shitty movies (exception being his minor role in 2008's Thropic Thunder). With Oblivion I had hopes again that he could still turn it around (that was a decent movie, not a good one, but at least decent). EoT just blew my mind, finally, he uses his acting skills in a worthy script again.

3) Great supporting cast, but that was to be expected. After all this movie stars the likes of Brendan Gleeson, Noah Taylor and Bill Paxton

4) The movie was really funny. Especially the beginning was hilarious.

5) Great action all round. You could easily follow and be amazed by it. The Mimics were great, really well made.

6) The review R'hllor's Redin Džeko posted is right when it says that the movie really treats you as an adult. No tedious overexplaining or unnecessary obvious exposition. It's just very straightforward and the pace is high because of that.

What I didn't like:

1) It needed more Emily Blunt. She's amazing and I would have loved to see her kick more ass. Not that she didn't kick her fair share, but I just want her on screen more :p

2) As has been pointed out before in this thread:

As an extremely minor criticism, the music played over the end credits was an awful, jarring choice.

The music from the trailer would have been so much beter. This just sucked. Fuck whoever chose that song.

[Black Wolf Smith]

Yeah I've been hating on Tom Cruise in recent years but I can't really find an objective reason why. His movie selection isn't too bad. Yeah, I'm not interested in another Mission Impossible movie, Jack Reacher didn't do much for me, and War of the Worlds was quite boring. But those movies weren't awful. Oblivion was pretty good and I'm a big fan of Collateral, Last Samurai, and Minority Report.

Reviews for this look good (92% RT rating with 25 reviews). That's very similar to DotFP but we'll see how this one holds. It'll be hard for me to pass up a good sci-fi movie.

Also, they're making Top Gun 2!? When did that happen?

Why? because he is Tom Cruise!!! He does find really good ideas, makes himself the center piece, and messes it all up and turn it in to mediocrity, often just to make himself look good. The last really good movie he stared in (don't count bit role in Tropical Thunder) was almost 20 years ago. ( 1st note that Last Samurai could have been great, if his part wasn't in the movie at all) (2nd note Jack Reacher wasn't bad, but a dozen other actors could played it as well if not better then he did)

The buzz around this movie is worst then last years Oblivion, which was only good if you watch it on Netflix and didn't have to pay to see it.

[Calibandar]

From the trailers I have a hard time seeing how this can be good. It seems generic action SF.

Oblivion I quite liked though.

[Veltigar]

From the trailers I have a hard time seeing how this can be good. It seems generic action SF.

Oblivion I quite liked though.

It blows Oblivion away on every front imo.

[williamjm]

I saw it today. I thought it was a good SF film and the time travel plot mostly worked (although the ending seemed a bit too neat). The action scenes were good, particularly the chaos of the D-Day style beach invasion. I agree with Veltigar that Emily Blunt's Rita was the best character in the film, but Cruise also did a decent job. Bill Paxton's Master Sergeant was a lot of fun as well. Tom Cruise's repeated deaths were quite amusing at times, particularly some of his more incompetent moments and Rita's eagerness to shoot him in the head to reset as soon as anything went wrong.

As an extremely minor criticism, the music played over the end credits was an awful, jarring choice.

It was a weird choice, I agree it didn't really fit with the film.

[ants]

Watched it yesterday as part of a movie day (saw 4 movies) and this was by far and away the best. Virtually everything worked - the acting, the script, the visuals, the humour, the action. The blend was just fantastic. Especially loved Bill Paxton and would second/third/whatever the comments on Blunt. Her blend of bad ass but with feelings/personality was great. Script gave her room to play. Paxton seems made for the small bits, loved him in Apollo 13 and Two Guns.

Cruise was fantastic. His character starts off one way which you won't expect from the pre-views, and is slowly transitioned in a number of different ways. Thought his performance was really excellent and nuanced. Never felt the character was out of line with how it would really be.

Would definitely recommend. Best Sci-Fi film for a while.

Couple of spoilery things:

1. Really loved how the main target of the first two thirds of the movie turned out to be a trap. It ratcheted up the tension and was a nice twist. Made sense as well.

2. Some of the scenes between Blunt and Cruise, especially the farm house were just gripping.

3. The development of Cruses character from coward to bad ass in love with Blunt was brilliant.

4. I loved how they kind of assumed you knew Groundhog day, and treated us like Adults. You had scenes where he used his knowledge from spending days and days around the base, whitehall, etc. but they never concentrated on that. You didn't see him build his knowledge of Squad J, or the General's secretary. It assumed you would know how that worked and by simply using that showed you how much time Cruise must have spent dying. Definitely years. Possibly a decade. Instead, the movie took that Groundhog day knowledge and said "you're adult, you know this, lets concentrate on the fun stuff". It was great.

5. Was a touch annoyed at the end where they could have ended it up with the destruction of the Omega. That said, they went a little Hollywood and made the ending nice and pleasant. Thinking about it, my initial thoughts were "does this mean there is something higher up the chain than an Omega, and it re-sets 2 days?".

But thinking a bit more, I have what in my mind is a reasonable explanation. The Omega in a sense was the time machine, which reset when the Alpha's died. So if an Alpha dies, it resets, no damage to the machine. As it's dying it would be natural for the Omega to try and reset time. However, dying and injured it makes sense this wouldn't work, or only partially. Also, the Omega isn't designed for reset.

So it tries to reset, and gets it partially right (resets 2 days), dragging Cruise with it. But the integration of the damaged Omega with the one two days ago fails due to the damage, big explosion, and you have the ending.

I'm sure there are other interpretations, but that one works for me.

[williamjm]

4. I loved how they kind of assumed you knew Groundhog day, and treated us like Adults. You had scenes where he used his knowledge from spending days and days around the base, whitehall, etc. but they never concentrated on that. You didn't see him build his knowledge of Squad J, or the General's secretary. It assumed you would know how that worked and by simply using that showed you how much time Cruise must have spent dying. Definitely years. Possibly a decade. Instead, the movie took that Groundhog day knowledge and said "you're adult, you know this, lets concentrate on the fun stuff". It was great.

That's a good point, the film did a good job of showing us the bits we needed to see but we only see a brief bit of most of Cruise's iterations and we don't need to see more. I also liked the way they abruptly took away the safety net in the last part of the film after Cruise is treated in hospital, it does increase the tension knowing that this is their final chance.

[protar]

Saw it the other day and it was a lot better than I expected - I'd definitely recommend it. It wasn't the exact plot I was expecting it to be so I think that helped, I thought it would be simulations not time travel. Tom Cruise didn't feel like he was just Tom Cruise which is what usually happened. He felt like his character.

[C0bR]

Damn, this was the best blockbuster in years