Actually enjoyable.

Rating: 7/10 (22 June 2014)

First off, I have not been a fan of Tom Cruise for a while (though there were a few I liked). I did however enjoy this movie. It was sort of a mix of ID4 meets Groundhog day. It was actually enjoyable, even at the beginning when Cruise is playing his douche self. That said the pace of the movie really begins to pick up at about the 20-25 minute mark. It was interesting to watch the character develop (as if he really had a choice), the skills he needed to fight the summers alien enemy. There was a surprising amount of humor in the movie & it is easy to see where they could have made subtle changes to the script & just made it a lot darker, but they wisely remembered that it is supposed to be a fun summer alien movie & people don't really care for depression with their sci-fi. All in all an enjoyable movie, & one of the few Cruise movies I would watch again.