Great Sci-Fi movie and good performance from Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt

Rating: 9/10 (14 June 2014)

Edge of Tomorrow is a really fun Sci-Fi flick, which offers both excitement, it will have you hooked to your seat from the beginning to the end and it also has good humor and many funny scenes. But that is not all this film also has some really good action sequences, along with an interesting and intriguing storyline. A guy is reliving 24 hours of his life again, again and again, because when he dies the day the resets, and he wakes up in the camp where he was 24 hours earlier having already witnessed everything before.
I am always fascinated by Sci-Fi movies which are based on around time travel, Back to the Future I is one of my favorite films ever, its sequels while not living up to the original were still fun to watch, there are also many other good films based on time travel like Groundhog Day, Source Code and Looper. There are others in which the time travel concept existed but grew tiresome or was just not that interesting, films like Peggy Sue got married, Time Machine (2002) and Midnight in Paris are films based on time travel that failed to hold my interest. Fortunately Edge of tomorrow ranks among the former not the latter and is one of the best films released in 2014 so far.
Many actions scenes are brilliantly shot, the fight scenes between the army and the mimics are really well done, the dialog has humor and also carries the plot forward. Tom Cruise is fantastic as Officer Cage, he performs many great action sequences, provides humor to the film and also helps carry the film, Blunt serving as the female lead and his Love Interest also does an excellent job. Blunt's role as Sergeant Vrataski is that of hardened female soldier, who single handedly killed many many mimics in the battle of Verdun she is not your typical female in action films who needs the hero to protect her, she is fighting soldier, Blunt also trained hard for this role and she delivered. The supporting cast is good, it was awesome to see Bill Paxton in this film and the scenes between him and Cruise were really good. The actors who played the J Squad also do a great job.
The film's premise about Cruise knowing all of his friends for hundreds of days and them barely knowing him ads a lot to the film and also made the angle between Cage and Rita Vrataski more than your average love angle and also made for some interesting interactions between them. I also applaud the attention to the detail in this movie, many scenes that are repeated are 100% accurate to the last dialog, watching these scenes unfold again and again also makes this film more intriguing. The sound effect and music is also good and suits the film.
My minor problems would be that the film starts to drag a little in the middle before Rita and Cage make it to farmhouse, the movie then once again picks up after the farmhouse scene, also seems like by the end the film started skipping many important loops, for example, Cage having already been at the farmhouse before many times, when we first saw him there, he had already been at the General's office many times, when we saw him go there with Rita. This kind of creates some ambiguity and confusion and I feel this film should have at least added some quick scenes of Page's earlier visits to the general's office and the farmhouse rather than just showing the scenes in which he actually succeeds, it would have added to the movie in my opinion.
I have a mixed opinion about the ending firstly, it kind of leaves you hanging about the relationship between Cage and Rita, leaves you hanging on the edge of the final battle between Mimics and the soldiers in France, it is also one of those cliché endings where nobody really dies, and everybody is happy, but at least they did not go all the way and have Page and Rita reunite share a passionate kiss at the end of the movie that would have been so cliché, instead they just cut to the credits at their final meeting. Perhaps Page sacrificing himself or somehow surviving and waking up in a hospital bed and being declared a hero would have been a better. But maybe thats the point of the movie to leave you hanging and thinking what is going to happen tomorrow and creating some ambiguity, leaving room for interpretations rather than providing a straightforward ending.
Overall Edge of tomorrow is a great action flick, which will keep you on the Edge of your seat from it's start to it's finish, i am shocked to see Cruise in such a great action film at this stage in his career, this is a film which offers humor, entertainment, good acting and storyline, even if you did not read the book, you will find this film entertaining. One of the best films of 2014, and a must watch.