marvelous

Rating: 8/10 (10 June 2014)

This is a movie that feels different from the start, and that's relieving among the various blockbusters that recycle the same images and themes.I'm glad that, according to the reviews I'm reading and the general score, it gets the appreciation it deserves(which means there is enough good taste left).I have to admit that I admire Cruise's choices, so much that I often go to see his movies having trust in his choices(although, of course, there are occasional disappointments, such as last year's Oblivion).But usually he scores high(Jack Reacher, Mission Impossible, and, of course, Eyes wide shut).Edge of tomorrow is an excellent movie that can be seen as a sci-fi action comedy, with wit and playful character, that is pure joy to watch from beginning to end.I also liked Godzila for the visual style and the respect to the original Japanese monster, and Captain America was fine as an action movie (I cannot say the same for Spider man, whereas X-men seemed to me satisfactory enough), but I think that the real winner of the contest-if there ever was one-is Edge of tomorrow, a movie that also reminded me of the cinema of Verhoeven(Starship troopers and Total recall).I only give eight stars because this is my limit for any movie that doesn't go deep down to my heart or my mind;and I think that what we have here lacks the ambition to be something more, something to stay in the mind(although after leaving the theater I was a little taken away by the film's concept and images).Time will show if it will get a cult status or stay just as a nice memory.As the memory is recent I vote for the former