Decent mild action movie

Rating: 7/10 (8 October 2014)

At some point in the future aliens invade earth. They fly like meteorites through space but are more like organic versions of the mechanical aliens in The Matrix--multi-legged octopus creatures of incredible speed and strength.
Human have created some tacky exoskeleton made of old rusty parts with weapons attached for their soldiers to wear. Like most other amazing military weapons they are a scam as they don't give humans much of an advantage. Oddly enough humans will only shoot bullets at these aliens even though they seem to be almost resistant to bullets. Part of the military PR campaign is some tough chick and some guy named Cage who appears on all the talkshows. In good neocon fashion, humans can only think of responding to the alien invasion with human boots on the ground in a huge military response in Europe. And Cage who is just a PR guy finds himself being sent to the frontlines. He protests, is tasered and wakes up on the base as they prepare for tomorrow's attack.
He meets the tough Master Sargent, is assigned to the J squad where he meets a sorry ragtag bunch of British soldiers. The squad dropped off on the beach for the assault but it's a massacre as the aliens knew that the humans were coming. He manages to survive a few minutes unable to make his armor work, runs into the tough chick who's killed, but then somehow he kills an alien, one that is a different color than the rest and who communicates with them. He's covered in the the alien's blood and his face sort of dissolves.
Then he wakes up again on the base as they prepare for tomorrow's attack. But he remembers what he's been through. He relives the attack but is quickly killed and wakes up on the base again. This happens a couple of times as he tries to save people he knows will be killed. Or then he tries to warn the Master Sargent about the slaughter in the hopes he'll stop the offensive. Nothing works. One time though when he meets the tough chick she tells him to meet her when he wakes up. And he does. She of course doesn't recognize him but he explains to her what is going on with him. Turns out she had the same condition but it went away. She introduces him to some weird scientist (as they all are in the movies) who explains how the aliens work. Eventually Cage will start having visions of the alien brain and its location so they can kill it. For that to happen though he will have die repeatedly to be able to get close to the location. And that is where this movie is headed then.
Edge of Tomorrow combines familiar elements into an entertaining action movie with lots of humor. The repetition of the days, which usually can be annoying in movies, is actually enjoyable except for long, weird, and pointless scenes of Cruise undergoing training by the chick to shoot at and run from mechanical alien replicas. Cruise is his usual defacing and masochistic self. Blunt is completely forgettable, not sure what they see in her. For an action movie there isn't a lot of action and it's not at all impressive. It's still hyper action, fast, inscrutable stuff flying around. The aliens are lame and don't do anything other than kill and destroy (kinda like humans I guess). Edge of Tomorrow is an enjoyable and milder action movie.