Edge of Tomorrow is an upcoming American science fiction film starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. The film is directed by Doug Liman. It is based on the Japanese light novel All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. Rights to the novel were bought in late 2009, and a spec script was sold to the American studio Warner Bros. for production.
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Edge of Tomorrow is, unsurprisingly, smart, cleverly playing with clichés it knows we’re familiar with and even goofing on its own storytelling. It is also, surprisingly, funny, an unanticipated treat since it’s set during an alien invasion that humanity seemingly cannot throw off. It seems to do lots of stuff wrong, and yet it all works beautifully.
With some exceptions, the modern blockbuster tends to be a sequel, spin-off or reboot, so when something comes along that’s none of those it’s a curious affair. Thankfully, with Edge of Tomorrow, Tom Cruise proves he’s still got the action and acting chops to carry a summer blockbuster, plus the eye for a quality role that’s more than just guns-blazing, balls-out action.
First “wrong” thing: Our hero, William Cage, is no hero. (At least not initially.) He’s a coward, even in the face of the possible end of human life on Earth, and worse, he’s a sniveling weasel about it. He wears the uniform of a major in the U.S. Army, but he’s no soldier: he volunteered to do PR when he lost his ad agency in the wake of the invasion. Cage’s backstory includes some of the many intriguing hints the film drops about what’s happening on planet Earth that are never fully elaborated upon (and don’t need to be); I like — well, am transfixed by, in a sort of horrifying way — the rather misanthropic notion that even a war for the survival of our species that has already consumed Europe needs some spin every once in a while. We see some of Cage’s smarm as he appears in bits of the montage of TV news reports that opens the film, and he himself embodies a sort of untruth. For Cage is charming, movie-star handsome Tom Cruise (Oblivion, Jack Reacher) in a smashing uniform, the very image of inspiring soldierly spirit when that is, in fact, nothing but image.
Tom Cruise is a hard man to kill. He’s played the lead in more than 30 films, many of which have revolved around life-or-death situations, yet can you remember watching him die onscreen? The man is pretty much bullet-proof, so the fact that he dies multiple times in new film Edge of Tomorrow makes it intriguing for that fact alone. But while the set-up is a strong one, the pay-off is disappointing, making for a high-concept action picture that’s somewhat less than the sum of its parts.
Playing fast-and-loose with Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s source novel All You Need is Kill, Edge of Tomorrow kicks off with a series of news reports that piece together the film’s back story. Seems aliens have invaded the planet and are endeavouring to wipe out the human race. Christened ‘Mimics’ due to their ability to copy and even anticipate our actions, they are a huge, translucent blur of tentacles and tendrils that are fast, unpredictable, and deadly.
And these Mimics are winning the war, inspiring the planet to form the United Defense Force and attempt one last great push on the beaches of France.
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It may not be a franchise expedition, but that’s not to say Edge of Tomorrow is particularly original. It borrows heavily (and proudly) from a multitude of sources. Most notably it’s influenced by Aliens (great to see Bill Paxton back on the big screen), Starship Troopers and especially Saving Private Ryan as Cruise’s inexperienced private Cage is dumped on a beach amid thousands of mechanically-armoured soldiers, a global army invading Europe to fight off an unstoppable Alien race.
But it’s Groundhog Day that Edge of Tomorrow has to thank the most, as Cage comes to realise he’s living that same day over and over again. It’s not true love he has to find in order to break the loop; it’s the source of the enemy’s power. Enter Emily Blunt’s sword-wielding poster girl for the Allies’ war effort. She believes Cage’s story and takes to training him to fight his way off the beach and save the world.
Edge of Tomorrow, then? It looks very much like a videogame movie, in some respects, because what happens to Cage almost instantly on that invasion battlefield is this: He gets killed by one of the slithering aliens (they’re called Mimics). And then he “wakes up” the previous morning, just as he has arrived at the invasion’s forward base at Heathrow Airport, having accidentally absorbed the aliens’ ability to do a limited sort of mental time travel. As he lives this day over and over and over again, his actions are like those of a game: he gets better at using the suit of powered armor the human soldiers wear, and gets better at using the weapons (he doesn’t even know how to turn off the safety on his gun on the first iteration of that day), and accumulates knowledge that helps him get a little further each time.
He “plays” that battle multiple times, and every time he dies — which is every day — he jumps back to that “saved” moment on the tarmac at Heathrow. Soon he has teamed up with fellow soldier Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt: The Last Legion, The Last Legion), who knows what is happening to Cage because it happened to her. In fact, it’s the reason why she has become the renowned “Angel of Verdun” — aka “Full Metal Bitch” to her awed comrades — because she lived that battle over and over again until she won it for the human forces.
It quickly becomes clear that Cage has been caught in a time loop a little like the one that Bill Murray experiences in Groundhog Day. But where that film was largely played for laughs, here our hero is forced to re-tread his last miserable, terrifying and ultimately very painful day on the planet over-and-over again. As the film’s tag-line so succinctly puts it – Live. Die. Repeat.