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Edge of Tomorrow

2014

Doug Liman

Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton, Jonas Armstrong ...

6.8

43,891

Sci-Fi. Action In the near future during humanity's war against an invading alien race, untrained soldier William Cage (Tom Cruise) is thrown into a time loop, fighting and dying repeatedly. One day as he's about to be killed again, a female soldier named Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt) tells him to find her when he wakes up. He goes to her to find out what’s happening to him and she tells him she experiences the same thing. She asks for his help in ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Although the humor helps, the Groundhog Day-like repetition gets tedious; it makes you feel more like a hamster than a groundhog - or rather a hamster's wheel"	NEU
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"This enjoyably gimmicky entertainment is not only one of Cruise’s better recent efforts, it’s also arguably the most purely pleasurable film Doug Liman has directed in the 12 years since 'The Bourne Identity'"	POS
United Kingdom	Mark Adams Screendaily	"A coming together of Groundhog Day and Aliens (...) [The movie] offers plenty of fun to balance the sci-fi excesses"	POS
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"It's a familiar sci-fi mashup, but director Doug Liman knows how to find the fun and the thrills (...) 'Edge of Tomorrow' feels sharper and more clever than it might have been in other hands"	POS
United Kingdom	Dan Jolin Empire	"A playful and frantic science-fiction twister which mimics the best ('Aliens', 'The Matrix', 'Groundhog Day') while offering something fresh and — most importantly — thrilling. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Tom Cruise relives the same battle again and again until he gets good at it, while exchanging zero chemistry with Emily Blunt: it's just plain tedious (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Cath Clarke Time Out	"It’s not summer until you’ve eaten your first Magnum or Tom Cruise has saved the planet (...) The film’s ‘Groundhog Day’-meets-‘Independence Day’ plot is actually pretty genius"	POS
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"While the time-loop concept is ingenious, the repetition grows tedious and resembles a video game, but with murky rules (...) But the pulse-pounding action scenes are briskly directed by Doug Liman (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"Despite its terribly unimaginative title, Edge of Tomorrow is a surprisingly imaginative summer action movie"	POS

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