Live. Die. Repeat.

Rating: Null/10 (19 November 2014)

This movie borrows a key element from the great "Groundhog Day", namely the main protagonist must die and repeat his day until he gets it right. That is why its tag-line is "Live. Die. Repeat."
Tom Cruise usually plays a gallant, suave character who always has a way to do the right thing. This role is a departure, at least for most of the first half of the movie. He is a military officer who has not been trained for combat, in fact he is afraid of combat, when he is told he will be fit with equipment for the planned raid he freaks out and tries to talk his way out of it. To no avail.
The story is about a type of alien that has invaded the Earth. These are fierce fighters, plus when they begin the raid it is clear the aliens were expecting it and all the Earthling fighters are doomed to die.
Cruise is Cage, and he in fact does die when he picks up an explosive device that kills one of the aliens, but also Cage himself, but in the process he is splattered with fluid from the alien. This has a particular effect of making him re-live that last day.
So, each time he awakes in the same place, on tarmac, handcuffed as a deserter, and told he will be in the raid. This is repeated each time he dies, and at some point he realizes he must convince others what is happening so that they can take different actions and defeat the aliens.
Emily Blunt is Rita, a well-known hero from a former battle, she and Cage are in the raid, she too gets killed. But each time Cage is transported back before all that happened and she and the others are alive as they should be.
As other reviewers have said, this is not a movie to be analyzed too closely, just check your brain and sit back to enjoy the action and the story. It is very entertaining. Plus it has an excellent sound track. The opening 30 seconds of the movie (on DVD) has some of the deepest bass I have experienced, rattling glasses in the mini-bar and the pictures on the wall.
SPOILERS: Cage and Rita have to figure out that there is one controlling alien and if they can get to it and destroy it, all the aliens will fall dead and thus be defeated. That is the most interesting part of the last 30 minutes of the story, to see how they figure this out and where it is, finally succeeding.