Everything but the ending.

Rating: 5/10 (13 June 2014)

Wow! A spectacular film with an awesome cast. I'm not a huge fan of Cruise but when I realized this director also directed the Bourne series, I figured this could be equally good. I could totally see the military wearing some kind of exoskeleton armor in the future to fight battles. Though if every soldier had one that could create a ton of electronic waste. The first battle scene where they landed on the beach was crazy scary. I felt like I was right there with Cruise. Filled with terror at having to fight these creatures with an armored suit that I have no idea how it works. Blunt was so bad ass as the full metal bitch. She looked and played the part completely and I was invested in the film 100 percent and was even about to shed a tear close to the end of the movie, but then it didn't end there. Oh no the director had to take a perfectly good ending and turn it into your typical Hollywood fairy tale.
So the second ending left me a little dumbfounded. So Cruise killed an alpha male and got covered in its plasma which caused him to have some kind of link with the Omega. The Omega caused Cruise to repeat each day in order to stay one step ahead. OK so in the end Cruise sustains a fatal injury but manages to discharge several grenades which kill both the alpha male and the Omega. So if the alpha male and the Omega cease to exist how in the world was Cruise able to repeat the day? If the omega is the sole reason his days are being repeated and the omega is dead then how can his day repeat? Did the director forget that small detail or was he too busy sucking up to Hollywood execs? That small detail took the movie from a solid 8 to a 5.