Tom Cruise in the role of a more or less qualified space marine.

Rating: 10/10 (28 September 2014)

The film wasn't promoted and over-hyped by armies of high profile and fierce marketing campaigns, so I belatedly noticed its only existence. When I first glimpsed the official poster of the movie, it somehow failed to arouse my interest, because by the sight of the two actors posing in the futuristic uniform the first thing which came into mind was that we got the concept of another silly game adaptation, which happened to be Warhammer 40K at this time.
However, over time I realized that the film has nothing to do with the game even despite of the space marine style uniforms. I've started looking after the things and I've conducted a little investigation, but finally I managed to find only a brief and condensed information about the plot. I became eager for more details so I had to sit in the theater stuffed with curiosity. And there came a huge and pleasant surprise!
Thanks to the unique and original story, the splendiferous acting performance, the fantastically choreographed action sequences, the not overacted and exaggerating humor, and many other positive things, the only sentence came into my mind was that I'd watch it again, and repeat, and again!"
I don't wanna give you spoilers about the story, so the only thing I can say, that I consider it really unique. The Live, die, repeat!" slogan does not provide too much information about the whole thing to prospective audience, but it's quite enough to throw a spoonful morsel to you, which you can chew on until you gather adequate amount of curiosity to get yourself committed about watching the whole movie.
Let's examine the characters under the microscope. The film could be enjoyable for those who are infatuated with Tom Cruise, and for those who loathe him either, as he gets killed countless times in a row on the battlefield. The characters go through a real development, which was build up properly. We could witness how a weak, scared, left- handed wuss officer become a brave, dauntless and almost fearless butcher, who grinds and slashes the enemy easily with joy. Emily Blunt perfectly embodies the cool and absolutely bad-ass female protagonist, what she could implement in a so unique and amazing way, that it does not gives us the concept of the typical, phlegmatic, annoying, empty-headed, though chick who can humiliate every male characters in the movie with ease. Instead of that we could recognize a real amazon warrior woman while seeing her acting performance. Let's face it guys, that this has been achieved by hardly any women so far! And Bill Paxton magnificently shows us his priceless talent while bringing cynical leader into life. It's a great pleasure to watch!
The battle scenes are totally mind-blowing! You scarcely can see a drop of blood on the canvas throughout the entire movie, but nevertheless the movie throws some so brutally created action scenes right front of our eyes, that we can almost feel the shooting pain in our limbs when we see a character getting injured. I watch the first landing with opened mouth, without taking a small breath, when Tom Criuse has been first dropped right into the middle of the battle. It was almost scary to watch soldiers falling sequentially like little flies.
The film is a spectacular, high quality, and moreover it's an intelligent blockbuster, which can be considered a true rarity these days. In my point of view this movie earned the honorable title of The Movie of the Year". Everyone should see this masterpiece!
Thanks for spending your precious free time with reading my review! Hope you liked it!