groundhog day with aliens

Rating: 8/10 (30 October 2014)

I'v got to like Tom Cruise in sci-fi movies lately which I wouldn't have said ten years ago' the thing about this movie is the humour for me' every time he dies I just found it so funny for some reason. The movie is based on an alien invasion on earth and cruise plays major Cage who is trying to sell the war to the public and is thrown into the lions den by his commanding officer (played by brendan gleeson' who takes an instant dislike to cage) where he comes across a platoon of soldiers and their commanding officer (bill Paxton) where he quickly finds out that the war is basically a slaughter and he has to relive the nightmare time after time against an enemy that knows their every move, step in' Rita Vrstaski (Emily blunt) who is the poster girl special forces hero, and gives cage some startling news that he's totally unprepared for. this is one of the best sci-fi movies Iv'e seen for a long time carried of by Cruise and blunt very well' the ending is a bit predictable but there's enough going on in the rest of the movie to keep us all entertained for a couple of hours.