Groundhog day meets The Matrix

Rating: 5/10 (20 June 2014)

Edge of tomorrow (EOT) is "Groundhog day" meets "The Matrix". The whole first half felt as if I were playing and arcade video game: learning by heart (by rote, actually) the routine of the game in order to remain alive, which means trying again and again. Although this may seem potentially discouraging, the film keeps a good pace, and the constant repetition that ex-Major Cage has to put up and come to terms with allows him for some funny, witty lines and scenes. Suspension of disbelief is of the utmost importance in order to keep up with the plot. How else can the viewer give credit to Dr. Carter's wisdom and prescience concerning the Omega's behavior? Notwithstanding this, I was quite skeptical about the first spot where the Omega is looked for. I do not know such snowy mountain ranges in England, or in Scotland, for that matter – the Ben Nevis, which is located in the north of Scotland, is the highest peak in Great Britain, however it does not look like anything as the Omega's supposedly first hiding place. The battleground scenes are certainly spectacular, however, I was slightly put off by the Mimics' looks, which made me feel at times I was once again confronting the sentinels of The Matrix. All in all this is a rather entertaining (I did doze every now and then) and very complicated love story between two characters who happen to live some excruciatingly complicated circumstances. Finally, I will grant the Omega this: he knows where to choose a fine hiding place.