I
really liked Edge of Tomorrow. It was an interesting sci-fi action movie with
the trope of living the same day over and over again to get it right (like
Groundhog Day and Source Code), with a lot of black comedy moments and
excellent timing with editing, and solid performances from Tom Cruise (playing
a coward and inept soldier in the first quarter of the movie) and Emily Blunt
(acting like a total badass throughout the
movie).
Lately I've liked Tom Cruise more in movies, I was never a fan of him
before. His performances in Collateral, Tropic Thunder, Ghost Protocol, and
Jack Reacher have changed my mind about him. And I've been a fan of Emily Blunt
since My Summer of Love, she's just such a cool and complex actress. I enjoyed
following the plot and the way it affected the re-living of each day for
Cruise's character, and thought Bill Paxton was ridiculously funny as the jerky
sergeant. Someone on io9.com said he seemed to be revisiting his character of
Chet from Weird Science, and that's a good assessment. I wish the movie had
stayed with its original book title (All You Need is Kill), but it ended up
being a really good movie.
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