A Science Fiction Groundhog Day

Rating: 8/10 (20 November 2019)

At first glance this seems like just another Tom Cruise movie your typical action movie with a few stunts and Tom Cruise being Tom Cruise but surprisingly it goes beyond that and exceeds expectations with an interesting storyline great action scenes and likable characters you feel invested in this is a surprisingly good movie.
The storyline follows Lt. Col. William Cage (Tom Cruise) a public relations officer for the United Defence Force an army made up of different nations come together as one force to fight alien invaders known as mimics who came to via an asteroid crash landing on earth the mimics have taken most of continental Europe and are now heading for England Cage goes on TV and inspires people to join the army and help push back the mimics in a final push but after doing so is told he will be put on the front line aswell with no combat experience or courage Cage refuses and is made a deserter having his rank stripped and put on the front line of the attack when on the Battlefield he is quickly killed by a mimic that he kills by blowing them both up but the blood of this special mimic fuses with his melting his body and Cage wakes up at the start of the previous day as a deserter in the army barracks before the attack he tries to warn everyone but is dismissed as being crazy but when on the Battlefield he knows what will happen and begins to learn how to fight the mimics after saving one of the elite force fighters Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt) he discovers he is not the first to obtain this power and with it he must learn how to fight and become a soldier and use his new found power to find the hive mind that controls the mimics and kill it to destroy them all armed with the ability to reset time he learns to fight and find the head mimic with only one condition if things go wrong he must reset the day over again by dieing anyway possible.
Cruise and Blunt work well together and have great on screen chemistry the camera work and CGI looks great with real stunts and thrown in and despite the movie being a serious science fiction action movie it does have some comedic elements that are genuinely funny creative and smart.
If you haven't already seen this movie I recommend giving it a watch its basically a science fiction groundhog day worth watching if you enjoy action movies and science fiction.