Fantastic

Rating: 8/10 (5 June 2014)

As reviews go on here, there is a lot of regurgitation of the premise to fill up space and not a lot of fresh ideas shared by people writing reviews. Unfortunately, I'm no genius, but I'll do my best as I've decided to write a review for this movie.
Firstly, I read in the Cineplex magazine (paraphrasing)"If you like Tom Cruise, he's at his best, and if you don't, he dies like 300 times." I had a laugh at that because the most common complaint I hear about actors like Tom Cruise is that they're in every scene in their movies, which is true with this movie.
I was excited to see this movie because I'm pro Sci-fi, so there's my bias in action. I read some reviews on here and I heard some comparison to a "Ground Hog Day" meets....(sci-fi action)...my one stipulation to this, is that I recognize a lot more in common with the popular video game "StarCraft". This slashes my hopes for a future StarCraft movie, but on the same note, the aliens were done so well, and the movie so good and relatively creative and imaginative - with a lot of detail to small things Sci-Fi fans like - that I'm not upset that a StarCraft-like movie was made. And, like "Ground Hog Day", the character repeats some scenes with different outcomes, but the flow of the movie is a lot faster and dedicates less time to the learning curve than Bill Murray's movie does.
I felt the movie could have been a bit longer, and perhaps slowed down its fast pace in the middle of the movie to develop the characters some more, but, then again, I always say the movie could have been longer if I enjoyed it. Hopefully you will/did too, as more Sci-Fi movies like this need to be made.
Thanks for reading.