Less Rambo more Inception please

Rating: 6/10 (2 June 2014)

The movie is actually not bad, however I made the mistake of going to watch it with too high expectations.
This title adds a very interesting idea - ability to "rewind" time 24h back after you die - to the classic "aliens invade Earth" story. Tom Cruise is a high-rank officer in the United Defense Forces that gets demoted to a private, tagged as a deserter and is going to be dropped to the front on the next day. He then discovers that when he dies, time goes back a day and he can avoid the event that killed him.
For some reason I expected a combination of "let's fight the aliens" with "Inception"-type of action - that would have been very interesting, right? - but the movie is not at all in that direction. It starts very well and the first third gives enough of action and story development. Later on it just gets worse and worse. Many times I was just thinking "get over with this scene please and lets move on to something more interesting". This, in combination with ridiculous and completely inexplicable (even for the sci-fi movie standards) plot developments leading to a too cheesy ending were simply too much for me.
This movie is for sure enjoyable - just make sure that your only expectation is to see some nice explosions.