A Very Good Sci-Fi/Character/Action Film

Rating: 9/10 (18 June 2014)

If you are on the fence about seeing Edge of Tomorrow in the theater, I encourage you to give it a chance. It's a very good film that successfully balances story, characters and action. The specific plot is unusual enough to transcend the clichés that many sci-fi films get stuck in and the lead performances by Cruise and Blunt are excellent. They have great chemistry together.
There is plenty of all-out action and the visual effects do a good job of mixing believably utilitarian designs with some very strange alien imagery. If you're looking for thrills, there are plenty of those. But the best thing about this film, in my opinion, is that the characters are engaging. I also appreciate how the story is specific and nuanced, even though the stakes themselves are set on a large scale. There is a nice sort of intimacy at work here.
As others have mentioned, an easy way to describe Edge of Tomorrow would be as a mix of Groundhog Day with Starship Troopers/Aliens. If you are like me, that is a great hook. Anyway, this film makes good on its potential deserves much better at the box office than its opening weekend, and I hope that the positive word of mouth gives it some staying power. As far as this type of film goes, this is one of the better examples, and well worth seeing.