A gripping sci-fi adventure, preceded by a haunting tale of a soldier's road to death

Rating: 9/10 (10 June 2014)

For me there are two films here.
After the time loop starts it's a whole lot of fun. I am easily distracted by plot holes, but I could spot none. At no point do the characters act with obvious foreknowledge or blind spots, as they so often have to in a sci-fi flick to keep the plot rolling. That and the CGI is truly seamless, and not much gets past me.
But up until that point we basically watch a hapless Tom Cruise get sent off to die. OK it's a sci-fi, but the dread before the battle and the panic on the battlefield are all too real. You're in Tom Cruise's shoes every helpless step until his pointless demise, where he just happens to get lucky. It's a story that needs to be told and Edge of Tomorrow tells it like I've never seen before.