Supporting characters like Bill Paxton’s Master Sergeant Farell and the members of J-squad also hold up their end well whenever they appear, and they help to provide humour due to their bewilderment of Cage’s inexplicable behaviour (in their eyes) once he gets in the loop and is able to predict their moves before they make them.Įmily Blunt as Rita Vrataski in Edge of Tomorrow I’m surprised she hasn’t taken on more action movie roles before. And repeat.Įmily Blunt is a really kick-ass heroine too, despite this being her first such action role. Nothing beats watching the usually cool and charismatic actor lumbering around in a clunky suit, getting knocked out of frame suddenly by an incoming jeep, and then immediately restarting the sequence with him learning from his mistakes and crossing the jeep’s path safely, only to die in some other creative way. The time-looping device may not be an original trope, but it is used to hilarious effect, especially in the beginning when he is still a terrible soldier. Basically, you get to watch him die over and over and over again as he and Emily Blunt search for ways to defeat an alien invasion. Plus Edge of Tomorrow delivered everything I wanted from a Tom Cruise movie, and more. Tom Cruise as Major William Cage in Edge of Tomorrow As long as he isn’t an axe murderer, racist or psychopath, I’ll watch his movies. He gets a lot of flack for being “Tom Cruise”, and his movies have been steadily declining at the box office since the whole Katie Holmes debacle and Oprah couch-jumping stunt in 2005, but he actually seems like a really hardworking and great guy to work with, whatever he believes, so it’s unfair that people’s perceptions of his personal life colour the way they view his movies. I mean, he always makes the most fun action movies, and it’s not like we’re being asked to marry him. Edge of Tomorrow movie review (with spoilers)Įdge of Tomorrow is REALLY good - and so grievously underrated it should haunt everyone who didn’t want to watch it when it came out, especially if their reason back then was because they were turned off by Tom Cruise’s scandal-ridden personal life. His skills evolve over time with his knowledge of what happens each day, and he teams up with decorated Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt) to find a flaw in the insurmountable aliens and defeat them once and for all. In a future where the earth is being relentlessly attacked by an unbeatable alien race who has taken down most of the world’s armies, Major William Cage (Tom Cruise), a military PR specialist who has never seen combat in his life, is unwillingly dropped into a brutal assault, where he is killed within minutes, but not before accidentally acquiring the power to reset the day every time he dies.
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