Military action flick with a difference

Rating: 8/10 (19 January 2015)

This century, evidently thanks to advanced digital technology, has seen dozens of futuristic movies where the world is to be saved from alien invasion. Most of them have both the plain plot and ending, and all action in focused on visual effects. The latter plays also an important role in Edge of Tomorrow, but, fortunately, a new angle - in the form on recurrent time loop - and twisted humor make this movie an entertainment distinct from other of the kind, perhaps as the screenplay is adapted from a Japanese light novel. The very ending has a pleasant "dodge" as well.
Anyway, you have to concentrate and ponder, as things get intertwined, repeated scenes are combined with new elements, and the chemistry between Tom Cruise as Major William Cage and Emily Blunt as Sergeant Rita Vrataski is good as well; besides, Bill Paxton as Master Sergeant Farell and Brendan Gleeson as General Brigham provide small, yet memorable performances. As for the effects, the enemy's look is different, and the likeness of the equipment/technology used by the "good guys" with the ones used in related movies is not annoying as they are not means for torpid destruction. The creators have taken all with ease, sometimes it seems that they laugh even at themselves.