Tom Cruise Stars in a Video Game

Rating: 7/10 (7 June 2014)

It's June, and, on schedule, here come the movies that will keep young people entertained. The Edge of Tomorrow is part of the first wave of films targeted at the young people.
A non-stop special effects extravaganza, Tom Cruise is Major Cage, a reluctant hero who must fight the same battle over and over. The script resembles "Groundhog Day" where Bill Murray lives the same day over and over. Characters in The Edge of Tomorrow return to the same moment on the day before a major battle. Weird that I saw the movie on D-Day, and the footage of the Normandy invasion resembles the footage of the big battle.
Unlike Groundhog Day which is about a man improving himself to the point where he is ready for a relationship with Andie MacDowell, The Edge of Tomorrow is about saving the world from alien invaders. Major Edge returns to the same moment in time after being killed on the field of battle. Each time he is killed he learns something new about the impossible odds which confront the human race. When in battle, he and the rest of the forces on the field must kill alien spidery things covered in tentacles. They are somewhat hard to kill, and they are under the command of a big giant brain.
Virtually infinite number of spidery things and unlimited numbers of new lives available to Major Edge give the film a video game quality. Fighters shoot and kill the spidery things. As they become more able to predict the behavior of the spidery things, the fighters move to different environments. The top level of the game is the final battle with the giant alien brain.