Groundhog Day Meets Starship Troopers

Rating: 7/10 (19 July 2014)

The antagonists in this movie, as well as the soldiers' powered suits, are *very* derivative of the bad guys in Heinlein's Starship Troopers, but the story is told well and the characters are good. In particular, I really like the way they treat the women; while this movie doesn't pass the Bechdel Test, the women in it are strong and treated as equals by the men. It does get somewhat predictable, especially near the end. On the other hand, it's told pretty interestingly and there's some neat aspects of time and story compression. You'd have to have some of that -- obviously you don't want to see *every* repeated day in toto -- but it does it in an interesting way.