A pastiche of familiar Hollywood tropes

Rating: 6/10 (22 March 2015)

Like the repeating time travel story device this movie uses, we have seen this before in Star Trek episodes, Groundhog Day, etc, etc. Sure, Tom Cruise gives us another charismatic performance, and there is a flavor-of-the-month hot blonde half his age to fuel our naughtier fantasies. There are explosions and special effects and technologically advanced yet mindless space aliens.
But does any of that make it a good movie? Not to my admittedly limited capacity brain. I suppose I could go into listing plot holes and asking other rhetorical questions about how and why what happened, but things like that don't really interest me that much. What does interest me is dramatic impact and thought provoking situations and dialog. Sadly, there is little of that present in Edge of Tomorrow.