Groundhog Day meets Starship Troopers

Rating: 6/10 (16 February 2015)

This movie is slick and watchable but hardly original. The parallel to Groundhog Day makes it all faintly ludicrous, the battles (and the aliens) are straight out of Starship Troopers, and there's a dash of 12 Monkeys time travel thrown in. I'm still looking for the smart that some reviewers see. Summer action thriller, late-night TV fodder -- it's found its niche.
Tom Cruise keeps at it, more power to him, and Emily Blunt proves herself surprisingly versatile. Brendan Gleeson always good, but he has a chump's role here. Bill Paxton proves that the less time he is on the screen, the better he does. Ultimately, this a low budget film with big time special effects. There's something cheesy about the set in the climactic scene. Film seems way overrated at 8.0.