Typical B Movie That Got Promoted to an A through Lavish Budget

Rating: 8/10 (11 July 2017)

This big budget romp was concocted to a borrowed formula: 1/3 Groundhog Day 1/3 Starship Troopers 1/3 Minority Report Most of the movie's droll humor comes from the smart mouth of Bill Paxton who plays the hard-ass master sergeant. Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt give creditable performances with their mix of acrobatic skill and body chemistry; a duo who defy the odds and carry the day. The premise of this movie violates the 2nd law of thermodynamics, but this was not a movie intended for an audience of physicists, as the plot unwinds you have to suspend disbelief and cut it a little slack. It's a long time since I visited Paris, but isn't I.M. Pei's glass pyramid in the Louvre courtyard, so the crippled aircraft crossing the Seine would have had to crash through the main building in order to reach the omega?