Unoriginal and lazy

Rating: 2/10 (18 September 2014)

In short, Edge of Tomorrow is a movie where one irrational thing happens after another with some spectacular CG in between, all of which is justified by very original concepts that we have never seen before - an alien invasion, a man reliving the same day over and over again, and Americans saving the world from destruction, which is done mostly by one guy who blows up the chief alien with some grenades. Epic stuff. There is very little back-story, very little explanation of why things happen, they just do, and we watch them happen because, well, they often involve spectacular explosions, otherworldly creatures and cool exoskeletons with built-in machine guns (awesome!). The writing and dialogues are poor (with a few exceptions) you mostly hear lines like "we must kill the Omega" or "the world expects us to win" etc. There is actually one very brief scene where our protagonist discusses the possible reasons of the alien invasion with a group of elderly people. Sadly it fell short of delivering any answers at all, and all we got from that scene was that the aliens are there, it doesn't matter why, all that matters is we must kill them. Can it get more simplistic than that?
Also, apparently the most powerful types of aliens (Alphas and the Omega) are physically present on Earth and in the case of Alphas - they physically take part in combat against humans. This makes little sense since if an Alpha gets killed, the killer absorbs the alien's power and can "control the time". The killer will also have visions that will reveal the location of the Omega. So why would they risk being killed and giving away that power? Especially since even the smaller aliens completely wreck humans, why is there need for Alphas to be present on the battlefield at all? Perhaps there is a reason for that, but the lazy writing does not help us find out. This is just one of the many plot holes in this movie.
TLDR: The movie has cool visual effects, ideas and concepts we've already seen many times before (even the visual style of aliens is a blatant copy-pasta), poor writing, plot holes and poor dialogues. 2/10 would not watch this crap again.