Has a lot of fun with its twisted logic

Rating: 9/10 (2 June 2014)

"Edge of Tomorrow" is essentially "Groundhog day" meets "Aliens" with a little bit of "The Terminator" or something thrown in. But maybe that's not fair. Because "Edge of Tomorrow" isn't just ripping off those excellent movies. Its clearly influenced by them, in making something that's almost as good, and equally original.
Over many of the standard modern day block busters. "Edge of Tomorrow" starts things off properly. By putting its story first. Flick sees Tom Cruise (actually playing someone who starts as far from a hero) thrown into an alien war, where, after an unfortunate incident with one of the slithering beasties. He Becomes able to live the same day, over and over again, until he eventually becomes the best weapon there is in fighting these time altering bugs.
As you can probably imagine. There is more to it than that, and the film has a lot of fun with its twisted logic. Throwing in plenty of action, and even plenty of laughs, to make for an altogether interesting movie.
Much like the recent "X-men – Days of future past" the films only real downfall is its mind boggling ending. Here, feeling like a slapped on happy "Hollywood ending." When perhaps a darker one would have been the better way to go, in a film in which the usually heroic Tom Cruise is shamelessly killed over and over again.