Edge of your seat

Rating: 7/10 (7 June 2014)

A scared-of-the-war soldier (No, that wasn't a typo error) is forcibly thrown (literally) on a battle field where he has to play tag with aliens and bullets and you can guess the rest. Along the way he meets a girl whom everyone fondly calls "Full-metal-B**ch" (That wasn't a typo either). Together they are put in a time loop where they play the same day again and again and again until the director decides to call it a day (No extra points if the movie "Groundhog day" comes to your mind).
Based on novel "All you need is kill", there is nothing much for the story department and to some extent the screenplay department can relax a bit for the same reason. But flavoring it in the Hollywood crucible with some star-powered cast, this movie has essentially become one of the best sci-fi in the recent times.
Before you decide to vote against me, let me make my stand clear. I go into a sci-fi movie not expecting an Oscar performance or a classy screenplay. On the contrary I expect entertainment with some good-to- recall moments that will make my money worthwhile. Did the movie tick all the boxes, YES.
Tom Cruise, as we all know, is Hollywood's go-to-guy when it comes to saving the world. Be it the Russians (in MI-4) or killer drones (in Oblivion) or the "mimics" (in this movie") he has seen them all and killed them all. When the Academy decides to offer an award on the "most kill category", we know who the front-runner is.
OK, enough deviations. Edge Of Tomorrow (EOT) is nothing short of an adrenaline drive which doesn't take itself very seriously (which is a good thing) with its own light-hearted moments (For ex. The hero must die each time to reset the day and guess who does it most of the time). Though this dries up a bit towards the end, the story fills in the vacuum with touch-ups from the CG department.
Some of you might be confused towards the end as to how the story shaped itself. But then it's the writer freedom to decide how his story must end. So, that's forgiven.
Edge of Tomorrow: Will leave you on the edge of your seats.