Live, Die, Repeat...watching it!

Rating: 9/10 (14 February 2015)

With this new decade making numerous Science Fiction films, which at times are either seemingly good but turn out to be unexpectedly bad, like Michael Bay's Transformers films, or ones that some would think would turn out to suck just cause the filmmakers only focus on the concept and action of the film, rather than the movie's actual plot, but turn out to be unexpectedly good. I mean when you look at movies with extremely iconic and eye-catching concepts, like Bay's sequels (as I mentioned) or the prequel Star Wars Trilogy, you'd anticipate them for pure greatness, but instead just turned out to be a mess in the end. But in Edge of Tomorrow's case, it's one where you'd think in the exact opposite way. But when you think about it that way, you'd be wrong. So basically this one just turned out to be an unexpectedly GOOD one.
Edge of Tomorrow's plot centers on Tom Cruise's Major William Cage who's been forced by superiors to fight off an alien race, known as the Mimics, after losing his rank in the United Defense Force (UDF). Although he starts off with no real experience in combat whatsoever, Cage becomes part of a time loop where every time he dies on the next day, he repeatedly starts the whole time-being over in a certain spot at an airport of the UDF's military soldiers on the previous day before he died. And with his ability to learn from his experiences in the next day (before and) after dying numerously to repeat the whole day over and over again, it's now up to him to destroy the alien race of the Mimics, with the help of Emily Blunt's Sergeant Rita Vrataski, as well as many other soldiers in the UDF and help restore his life back to normal by finding and destroying the source to his continuous death loops.
With well-paced action, along with a brilliantly written script and clever originally, Edge of Tomorrow certainly knows how to balance all of these aspects of itself properly. Despite being a blockbuster that wasn't successful at the box office, EoT certainly was by no means not worth watching just cause some might think it would become a disaster for how unoriginal a concept like this might be. But if you look past those thoughts, Edge of Tomorrow offers a gripping storyline what with it's considerably perfect pacing, an awesome (and original) concept of mechanized robotic suits, the cleverly designed aliens, and all of the iconic (and eye-catching) machinery. Think of it like a Mechanized Tom Cruise fighting off aliens version of Groundhog Day, or a combination of Groundhog Day and Independence Day. Even if you're not a fan of Cruise's films, still give this a watch. The end result is not only one of 2014's finest flicks, but arguably Tom Cruise's best film to date.
(Thank you, Liman.)