Edge of Tomorrow - A Bad Ass Movie (8.2/10)

Rating: 8/10 (7 September 2015)

So I have just finished watching Edge of Tomorrow starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. I bought this movie very cheap on blu-ray and expected not much out of it, and to be honest I was very wrong. Not many action movies in my opinion these days are able to capture a unique perspective on war as well as Edge of Tomorrow has.
The movie begins with Cruise as a General in a war against an alien threat that has invaded Earth. He was then sent into the firing lines as a platoon of soldiers attempt to recapture France by surprise, but in doing this are ambushed on the border. The aliens look like a large wolf creature with arms that can be used as weapons to grab soldiers and throw them far away. All of these aliens have a glowing orange mouth that is easily identifiable when they scream, however one in 6.185 million of the aliens (if i remember correctly) have a blue glow in their mouth, suggesting that they are an 'Alpha'. Cruise is able to kill one of theses alphas with a bomb but dies alongside the alien. In killing this rare creature Tom Cruise was given the ability to relive the entire day over and over again.
This movie dove deep into the meaning of trust and belief as Cruise begins to tell people about what power he possesses, only to be believed by Emily Blunt, a bad ass in the war that had the same scenario happen to her.
What I love most about Tom Cruise is even though he is in his fifties and only 5'2". He can time and time again be a total bad ass. By the end of the film he can lunge at and forcefully attack these aliens like there is nothing to it. Also it is very amazing how at his age he is still performing every single one of his stunts. There is one part of the movie where he comes crashing down this slope of metal, in the process getting huge airtime before falling into another piece of metal before hitting the floor, all of this was stunted by himself, which is quite remarkable.
Emily Blunt also worked her bad ass role perfectly, not one second did I doubt that she was the most dominant soldier throughout the entire movie, which is a fantastic angle that the producers of this movie took. But as well you are able to slowly see a vulnerable side to her, even though at the end of the movie she doesn't remember a single thing about the whole experience and returns to this bad ass role.
The ending is pretty self explanatory, they find a source called the 'Omega' which triggers all the aliens to die if destroyed, both Blunt and Cruise die in the process of destroying this Omega but Cruise wakes up once again to the war being over and to Emily Blunt once again not knowing who he was, because after each time he died he had to convince her again about the situation.
Overall the movie did what it set out to do and better, it is amazing what a good movie can do to you when you enter the movie with little hope an come out of the movie with an engaging piece of cinema. The action sequences were top notch, the aliens didn't look fake (which is what turns me off most alien type movies) and the acting was where it had to be, a solid effort from the entire cast.
That being said I give Edge of Tomorrow an 8.2/10