Edge Of Tomorrow is pure genius! MUST WATCH!!

Rating: 10/10 (3 June 2014)

Excellent action movie, probably one of the best I've seen in years.
Cage has never seen any action and with Earth under attack from an alien invasion his job is to market hope and put a positive spin on human fatalities. He's a sort of Alastair Campbell of the future you could say, though it's unlikely that even he could have conjured up poster girl Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt), a tough-but-beautiful fighting legend.
Assuming his London trip to be just another PR go-see, Cage is horrified to discover he will be part of the first wave of troops on the beach (a timely nod to the D-Day landings) so he can report good news on the secret counter attack.
Refusing to accept dispatch orders from tough-talking General Brigham (Brendan Gleeson), Cage is arrested, demoted to private and sent to Heathrow for training, despite having the fighting aptitude of a BA flight attendant. Now things get really interesting for the ill-equipped soldier is sent off to France with other rejects as alien cannon fodder and he dies. Only he doesn't.
After ingesting the blood of the alpha alien he actually manages to kill, coward Cage is not only mentally connected to the invaders' "hub" but suddenly finds himself living the previous day all over again. And again... and again.
Think Groundhog Day with almost invincible angry seaweed aliens and you'll get the measure of this action-packed early summer blockbuster that puts Cruise back in poll position as the hero who can see off a heinous enemy while cracking jokes and smiling.
Just like Groundhog Day, a tight script and sharp editing allows us to see fresh versions of the same day in many ways as Cage turns into a highly-skilled soldier due to coaching from Rita, whom he meets on the battlefield.
Of course the day's repetition means he is always back where he started with the muscular miss in leaden combats, but Cruise and Blunt have good chemistry and the shtick never feels laboured.
On the contrary the whole film whizzes by and my only complaint is that forced into 3D glasses, the blasting alien shoot-outs left me feeling trapped in an Xbox game with pending nausea.
As this will be a recommendation for many, I advise fellow spec haters to seek out the 2D version in order not to miss this sharp, sassy, well- assembled piece of sci-fi that Tom stood in the rain to sell.