Great way to relive a stack of old movies

Rating: 7/10 (22 September 2014)

You have to admire Hollywood screenwriters. They can rent a stack of old movie titles and recast them into the perfect pitch for a new title. Guaranteed to get the Hollywood apparatchiks to bite because all the other movies made money. Doing them all over again is sure to work for audiences who won't watch the originals because they are "old", aren't in color, have no CGI and above all are unacceptably original.
This version is an almost straight lift from a 1964 James Garner RomCom. Set in pre-D Day Britain where a mad admiral wants to send his PR chief in with the invasion troops and a camera crew, because "The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor."
The beginning of "Edge of Tomorrow" is practically the beginning of "The Americanization of Emily".
To spice it up because the old plot was hardly fit for CGI we add in some War of the Worlds and Groundhog Day and you have a winner!
Whilst the plagiarism really jumped out at me, it does give it an interesting twist and keeps you going right until the unbelievable end, where it seemed nobody could actually figure out how to get the obligatory Happy Ending, so just went for an easy cakewalk into the ludicrously undefended Omega, and KABOOM!
It was nice to know that whilst Tom Cruises' character was serially mortal throughout the movie, he comes good at the end, finally smartening himself up to be requisitely upbeat, waterproof and bombproof.
SPOILER ALERT: The hero doesn't die, beats the bad guys and gets the girl! Sorry if that really gives it away.
CURIOSITY: The Aliens can fly through space, but can't cross the English Channel! Something even the most aerodynamically challenged Pakistani can manage.