Great entertainment, lots of noise and violence, but none of it glorified, gripping...

Rating: 9/10 (16 July 2014)

OK, So only 9 out of 10 'cos nothings perfect, right, but this comes close. Most 'sci-fi' based stories expect you to swallow 33 unbelievable things before breakfast, but this really has one simple premise - Time can be reset. Literally everything else that follows (precedes/repeats :-) ) makes sense if you swallow that one piece of hokum.
For the first time IMHO, Cruise actually comes across as a believable hero and makes it work and Blunt is naturally as competent as always. The camera work is slick and suitably frenetic in the action scenes without making you feel that they are cutting and jumping for the sake of it.
Although these 2 carry the film because of the nature of the screenplay, all of the subsidiary characters were credible and there were none of the stupid 'cannon fodder' people shoe-horned in just to fill space. Even the brief cameo parts had dialogue which either keyed on a plot point or threw up something to make you think, like "What do they want?" just when you were wondering where the movie was going.
I think the soundtrack must have been OK but since I was glued to what was going on for the hundred and something minutes, it didn't really register what the music might have been like...
By today's standards the movie was relatively short, but it filled the time with meaningful action and/or dialogue and did not contain the usual load of redundant filler. Sorry, but slow fades, lingering meaningful pans across the battlefield and aesthetic sunset scenes are fine in the right dramatic circumstances, but in a narrative action movie - no way Jose!
When I first saw The Matrix I thought 'Original, exciting, fun' and Edge of Tomorrow is as good, and maybe better. Looking forward to watching it again to see what I missed.
Recommended Highly.