Smart and engaging

Rating: 8/10 (6 June 2014)

Edge Of Tomorrow is enjoyable, but not thoroughly. It is funny, smart and engaging as a sci-fi action movie with Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt at the helm, but it bumbles when it is trying to tell a humanist story, something that Source Code did quite efficiently. The opening battle scene is reminiscent of Saving Private Ryan which is great, but I hoped for Schindler's List like epiphany for our hero in the middle. Screenplay does provide for some cathartic moments (but wasted) and there is a beautiful love story hidden in Edge Of Tomorrow that fails to bloom on the screen, and all that is due to Liman's inefficiency in dealing with them. All said, this sci-fi coated Groundhog Day-ish movie that justifies its admission cost and is popcorn-y enough to thrill and entertain us. P.S. For video game players and Crysis players, there is a sort of deja vu.