Edge of Tomorrow: Live Die Repeat [DVD] [2014]

It seemed to me that this disc did not have everything that was in the theatrical version.Anyway, the movie is a solid Sci-Fi movie of kicking Alien ass! Great plot and acting. 4 Stars because they cut it short.

One of the things needed in a good story is a good character arc. This movie has that in spades. Tom Cruise starts as a complete wimp and, throughout the story he transforms into a completely different, stronger character. I lost count of the number of times I've watched this. It is totally re-watchable and well worth owning, instead of relying on it to appear on TV. Highly recommend!

Purchased for grandson for Christmas

This is a Groundhog Day + alien invasion story in which Tom Cruise's character lives through a set of events until he dies and then it repeats all over again. While he remembers everything, others do not. Eventually he realizes that he is not alone and that he can effect changes to break out of the unending cycle. The story and acting are very good for this science fiction/fantasy movie although there is a fair amount of violence and destruction. A similar Tom Cruise movie in the same genre, "Oblivion", was more believable scientifically in addition to having a great sound track by the group M83. If you like this movie then check Oblivion too.

Great movie

Scifi

Love this movie because it's one of many ideas on what our future will be like

There wasn’t anything about this movie that was not great. Very suspenseful…kept you on the edge of your seat.

This is a fantastic movie with a strong premise and great production values. Cruise and Blunt are wonderful and the creatures are effective and terrifying.BUT...avoid this version.It's shorter than the version I saw in the cinema. Several sequences are missing for no apparent reason, resulting in some jumps in logic. I'll detail them below (so don't read on if you haven't seen it...)SPOILERS:Missing scenes.Cruise pulls the press up stunt so he can sneak away from training to see Blunt but there are missing sequences showing him getting to this point. As the edit stands, he just goes training, behaves badly enough to get them to do press ups and sneak away. Okay there is one 'failure' here (with the truck) but there were more before this point.Cruise finds Blunt on the shooting range. They've cut a sequence when he dies before he can talk to her.On the beach, they've cut several 'days' so what we see is Cruise saving Blunt by somehow knowing where the aliens are going to appear from. And yes, we can assume that he's learnt this by repetition, but there were scenes showing him learning this and dying in the process.Why the cuts?It makes Cruise's character seem to go from coward to super hero too quickly. You have to assume that he's learning because you don't see him learning.Odd editing. Avoid this version and see if you can get a version longer than 108 minutes (as this is).

Spoilers ahead...Gorundhog Day meets Starship Troopers, but don't let that put you off. This is really good. It's time-loop story in which Cage (Tom Cruise) a public relations specialist with a nominal army rank of Major gets on the wrong side of someone with influence and ends up busted to the ranks without ever having gone through basic training. That's a bit of a problem because there's a war on - a war against implacable aliens. It's a problem for our hero because he's... well... not excatly hero material and certainly not gung-ho. He bumbles his way through the first few moments of a beach landing without knowing how to take the safety off his weapon, but the aliens are overwhelming. Predictably he ends up dead... and suddenly his day resets itself. In fact every time he ends up dead he goes back to the same point in the worst day of his life, learning as he goes.It's extremely well done, so you see enough of the repeats to get the differences and the forward steps, but not enough to get frustrated with it. Emily Blunt plays the female lead, tough super-soldier, Rita, who understands what's going on when no one else does. This is an inventive take on the Hiroshi Sakurazaka novel "All You Need Is Kill" with a certain amount of humour injected into a bleak situatiuon. The aliens are convincing. The battle scenes are delivered with sufficient verisimilitude to make them viscerally realistic. The special effects are good but they don't dominate the characterisation. (A bonus for me.)One of the better movies of 2014

And a chunk of “Next” thrown in.Another pretty good turn from Tom Cruise in a Sci-Fi actioner that probably suffers only from being a bit short. The story? Tom Cruise’s character, who isn’t a warrior at the start, gets trapped in a time loop and learns painfully how to defeat the enemy.While there’s almost nothing original in this movie, it charges along entertainingly enough through its 100-plus minutes’ running time. There are one or two nicely aggressive bits that make you jump the first time they’re played out. As with other sci-fi war movies, there’s more than a touch of the cynicism and brutality of Joe Haldeman’s brilliant “The Forever War” (try to get the version with all the sub-stories in it if you fancy reading it; I think the version in “War and Peace” is complete, but no warranty is implied by this freely offered advice!). The repeated death plot may go back to the brilliant Algis Budrys’ “Rogue Moon”, I suppose.Tom Cruise isn’t on his absolutely best form in this; his initial smug character never quite grows into the heroic one he’s intended to be, but it’s watchable all the way through. I’ve not seen a tough Emily Blunt before, and though she does a decent job at it, I preferred her more adorable character in “The Adjustment Bureau”. However, all the cast do a sound job.My only beef really is that it’s all a bit too fast and furious. There’s virtually no build-up, no background to talk of on the alien invaders, just a few nuggets drip-fed to us occasionally.However, because it simply romps along, it’s more entertaining than many a sci-fi war movie.A pretty satisfied sci-fi addict. You may think four stars a tad generous, and 3 ½ may be better, but it’s good fun, really.

At its simplest, this film is a sci-fi, action-packed take on Groundhog Day. This is not a bad thing.It's also a film with moments of humour, horror, drama, action, romance and character development. Add to that the believable near-future military technology, convincingly realistic CGI merged with practical effects, stunning visuals, raw cinematography, scary antagonists that are truly alien, and Tom Cruise being variously smug, smarmy, funny, weary, badass and dead.Still not enough? It also has an especially badass Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton, a pretty good script and it is probably one of the best (and most criminally under-marketed) military science fiction films yet made. Its apparently based on a Japanese novel turned manga.Oh, and it has at least one car chase.

Flawless, intense, well done!A very interesting explanation about why Cage (an appropriate name for this character) gets trapped in a time loop, and how this is connected with the rest of the storyline.Groundhog Day is way deeper than this action-based version. This is still a clever, modern and accessible presentation about reincarnation and self realisation.Amazing casting and performance! Cruise and Blunt together Are imho just amazing! Doug Liman is an expert in telling the actors how to react and interact in their conversations, plus the pace and edition are flawless.The music is the only downside, effective but really basic and composed in a predictable fashion. The song at the end is just wrong, it doesn't fit with the spirit of the film in any way. The song by itself can be amusing but its arrangements are of the mark. Maybe next time Willy MoonI'd like to finish with a positive note, the movie is original and is particularly well done. Congratulations to Doug Liman and all the crew.Definitely, worth, watching!