The biggest blockbuster of this summer

Rating: 9/10 (24 August 2015)

The movie unfolds in the near future in which an alien race which is unbeatable by any military unit in world has hit the Earth. Major William Cage (Tom Cruise) is an officer who has never fought in a war, is dropped into a suicide mission. He gets killed in minutes and he finds himself in a time loop where he has to fight in the battle, fighting, dying again and again. He meets a Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski(Emily Blunt) who had the same experience before. But with each battle, Cage, along with Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski increases his skills in war. Each repeated encounter gets them one step closer to defeating the enemy.
"Edge of Tomorrow" is an experience. Based on Hiroshi Sikurazaka's novel "All you Need is Kill", it's a classic science fiction and highly conceptual film. The octopod looking beasts known as Mimics are controlled by a creature that seems able to see through time, or pierce through it. When the movie begins, we don't know exactly about the enemy's powers. Tom Cruise, who has never fought a war, is dropped into a suicide mission. The film begins with Cage travelling to European command headquarters in London, waking up in a chopper. The movie at various points feels like his dream but actually the rest of the movie is not.
When Cage meets the general in charge of the world's forces, he's told that he's being sent into this war and is to report for duty immediately. Cage protests, but none of his efforts can halt this assignment and soon after he joins his unit and learns the process of wearing combat armour, he dies on the battlefield. Then he wakes up and everything starts over again. Then he dies again and starts over again. He always knows he's been here before, that he met this person, said that thing, did that thing, made a wrong choice and died. Nobody else knows. Cage's only allies are a scientist (Noah Taylor) who believes the creatures are beating humanity through their mastery of time, and Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt), a Sergeant, who is an exceptionally gifted killer. Rita has experienced the same that Cage is now experiencing, but at a certain point it stopped. She recognizes his maddening condition but can no longer share in it. However, She can offer guidance, and speed up the learning by shooting him in the head whenever it seems obvious that they're going down wrong that'll lead to the same fatal outcome. The rest of the cast has less to do because this is Tom Cruise's movie. The director succeeded in convincing Emily Blunt as a fearless super-soldier, and of course a magnificent camera subject as well. The film's only flaw is its attempt to impose a love story between Cruse and Blunt's relationship. Finally Edge of Tomorrow is a good movie and of "must watch" type either in 2D or in 3D. It's a kind of experience rather than just watching a movie. At the end you just feel like you have just played a video game.