Thrilling, creative and well acted. There was a lot of doubts about Edge of Tomorrow, but for me it seemed very cool and since I first saw the trailer that I was excited to see it. Today I finally had the chance to catch it and I really enjoyed!

The concept of the story is so cool! Something between Source Code and a mix of many war films. The action sequences of war are absolutely amazing and the special effects so well done! With a fantastic and super original Sci-Fi story you will be intrigued until the very last minute and you can't even predict what is coming next.

What I wasn't expecting was the amount of humour the film has. Those comical parts go very well with the story and are very well delivered. I let go an amount of spontaneous laughs throughout the story and that was great.

Tom Cruise was really great that his role! We already know that through the last few years he is a guy that likes to do this kind of physically difficult roles full of action and he certainly is in shape for that. I confess that I prefer the 80's and 90's Tom Cruise but he was pretty good in this and that is the Tom Cruise that I wanna continue to see! (although last year I also liked to see him in Oblivion which I think is not as bad as many say). Emily Blunt is a good actress, seeing her in this badass role was awesome! The chemistry between Cruise and Blunt was fantastic! I really liked Bill Paxton's character too.

I heard somewhere that this film was "the best video game film that was not based in a video game" and while I was watching it I really felt that! It was so cool to almost feel that I was actually playing a video game something like "Oh sh*t GAME OVER, start all over again!" haha

First was X-Men: Days of Future Past and now Edge of Tomorrow. Two great Blockbusters! Will this Summer continue to be great? I hope so!

Year after year, our cynicism towards Hollywood blockbusters only grows stronger; with mediocre mainstream cinema now undeniably at its most prevalent, masses of media buffs have resorted to cheaper and stronger in-home entertainment. In 2014, a temporary beacon of hope arrived...in the form of Doug Liman’s Edge of Tomorrow, which completely flabbergasted the standard by combining visceral summer popcorn fun with the following rarities: an emotional narrative with tangible stakes, a humanly flawed protagonist, but most of all: powerful thematic coherence. The kind of things that stimulate our minds, stir our souls, and spend years echoing in our subconscious.

On the surface, the film chronicles the attempt to fend off an invincible alien attack, but is first and foremost a tale of human experience, placing us in the eyes of a cowardly major thrust into active combat, forced to learn from his mistakes through various time loops, and gain the limitless courage expected of a soldier. The film’s seamlessly intricate weaving of character and theme helps not only sustain the world’s stakes, but equally that of Major Cage’s, maintaining a palpable tension from his every attempted resistance and enlightening character interaction. Liman’s focus on facial reaction shots and surreal sound editing within his battle sequences helps key us into his frantic mindset, helping his audience emotionally share and recount similar incidents of immature apprehension and faintheartedness. Its Groundhog Day-esque structure proves equally beneficial, creating an involving atmosphere of growth and making prime utilization of set-ups and payoffs for greater thematic advantage.

Our needs and expectations for this protagonist are established with minimal effort, with the comic Sergeant Farrell working as film’s moral mouthpiece, declaring that fate can be controlled through readiness and discipline, despite Cage’s initial physical & mental incapacity to believe so. However, his encounters with Sergeant Vrataski say otherwise, whose battle-hardened self has defied the artificial fate established by the aliens, becoming a renowned “angel” figure not just for the military landscape, but for Cage’s own mindscape, honing him into the common humanity and inevitable human sacrifices of the battlefield. In the latter half, Liman makes surprising reversals of audience expectation to further underscore Cage’s new synthesis of growth: facing death on the London bridge rather than running, avoiding Rita’s orders not for his own life but rather her’s, and exposing the moral flaws of his stubborn superior rather the latter’s initial exposure of his.

Simple, powerful storytelling techniques that confirm Edge of Tomorrow as a perfectly cathartic encapsulation of the hero’s journey that establishes humans, not inferior pressures and processes, as the Alpha and Omega of their own fates. If future filmmakers can prove to exhibit this level of care for their blockbuster narratives, then maybe we can love them again.

The "time loop" scenario may be over-familiar to anyone with a passing interest in sci-fi, but it is almost the ultimate "What if?" plot line, offering up a multitude of approaches to entertain and explore interesting themes. And here, Liman goes for broke and offers pretty much everything he can throw at it, with Cruise revelling in the role and they have created an entertaining and thrilling film that feels fresh despite borrowing from a multitude of others, not least because it commits to telling a standalone story that does not rely on previous entries nor tries to set up future sequels. Action and humour are prevalent to hook the audience into an intriguing set-up, but rather than simply rely on repeating the formula, Liman takes it beyond the initial hook as Cruise initially, and later Blunt, explore a multitude of approaches to solving the puzzle they find themselves in, which ensures the film does not become stale. Both Cruise and Liman are intent on showing the inherent gruelling nature of repeating the same day over and over, learning a little each time, even keen to emphasise the frustration when avenues explored reach dead-ends and have to be abandoned. Cruise is great here, getting to play a little with his own action hero persona, that helps to make his development from coward to determined soldier that much more believable. It is a shame that the final coda to the film drops this down a notch as the resolution doesn't quite ring true in the context of the story the audience has experienced but that doesn't prevent this from being great summer film.

**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.

**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.