It won't be a waste of your time and money

Rating: 8/10 (6 June 2014)

Edge of Tomorrow focuses on Will Cage, a military media relations officer, who gets thrown into the heat of battle wearing heavy exoskeleton suits, against Mimic alien invasion, all against his own will. On the battlefield, he accidentally kills an Alpha, a different kind of the Mimic, and dies right instantly. But he didn't die but instead he repeats his last day. Realizing his new found ability, he meets Rita Vrataski, the war's poster girl tough soldier, and trains under her. It turns out Rita once had the same ability but she lost it at the last battle. Rita tells Cage the rules, that for him to repeat the day, he must die, and also to stop the whole thing, they must win the war by killing another rare Mimic called the Omega.
Cage grows more adept in battle with each day he repeats. One day Cage and Rita make it to a house with a helicopter, a point in time where Cage knows that if they continue, however the way, Rita will die. He tells her this but she refuses to listen. Rita keeps on starting the heli, a Mimic comes out of nowhere attacking it, and Cage goes for his weapon in the house. Cage kills the Mimic but Rita still dies. He then repeats the day but this time, he doesn't get to Rita, although seeing her. He gets past the house and heli point without her and flies the heli to a dam where the Omega is located. Inside he's confronted by an Alpha and dies. The next repeat, he goes back consulting Rita. They then go to General Brigham to get a gadget to locate the real Omega's nest.
They located the Omega in Paris, while being chased by the military. They're captured and the hospital gives blood transfusion to Cage, eliminating his day-repeat ability. Escaped capture, Cage and Rita enlisted the aid of his squad to assault the Omega. Once again Cage asks Rita to stand aside and once again Rita insists on going. After a failed insertion, Cage and Rita manages to break into the Omega nest. They encounter an Alpha. The only way is for Rita to distract it while Cage goes for the Omega, so they do it. Cage drops the bomb on the Omega and it repeats to about two days earlier.
The base story is great. Yes it's not an original story, but a free adaptation of the Japanese graphic novel "All You Need Is Kill". Usually we are presented the story of time travel, but this time it's about time repeat. It's like when you play a video game from the early console era, before the save-point development. When you die, you repeat the game, not from the checkpoint or save-point, but from the very beginning. But the advantage of this story is that it has the ability to be non-linear. Here we see Cage going from saving his friend from the falling transport, to not saving him.
The story twists, like the visions turning out to be a trap, are quite predictable to me, but they're still fun to see due to excellent execution. I see also that the editing is done well for this movie. It's because, like all sci-fi movies, problem comes when a complex base concept is being done with a fast tempo. People, especially those who have, pardon my addressing, inferior capacity, may lag behind. This was what happened with The Matrix (1999), many people watch it repeatedly, not out of liking it, but out of curiosity because they don't get the concept on their first time watching. The editing here is good that it eliminates this problem. Less experienced viewers may again lacks when it comes to the times when Cage asks Rita to stay behind, but seasoned sci- fi watchers will get it faster.
The action is good. But for me, the action may not be the movie's main attraction point. The suits do make the characters look cool, but at the same time they make them harder to move agile in a cool way. The action is quite saved by the visual effects showing the Mimics being speedy and agile, drastically increasing the dramatization of the action sequences.
A senior Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt is a good recipe of a cast selection for this movie. Here Emily proves herself capable to handle even action sequences. A bit of a role for Brendan Gleeson doesn't hurt either.
The acting is great. It's funny to notice that this is one of the rare movies where Tom Cruise rarely do his smug grin, LOL. I personally think Emily Blunt handles the scenes and character greatly. Hr facial features fits perfectly into the tough soldier face, when compared to the many smiles she does in The Adjustmen Bureau (2011).
The costumes and make-up departments did a great job. The suits look great in making the soldiers look tough, although they don't look so agile and nimble. The make-up of the faces in the battlefield is also great, not too bloody, instead being of enough dirt and soot. Sets are beautifully made for this movie, even the ones in the battlefield, like the house with the helicopter. The music scoring is just enough to build the mood and not taking the focus out of the scene.
Overall from me a score of 8 out of 10 is deserving for this movie. I personally do recommend you to go and see it. It won't be a waste of your time and money.