EDGE OF TOMORROW MOVIE TV

(READ: Tom Cruise fights Tom Cruise in Oblivion)īrigham stockades the reluctant warrior and attaches him to a squad of soldiers due to be dropped on the beach tomorrow. Not so much as a paper cut.” Unlike the gung-ho Maverick in Top Gun, which launched Cruise to stardom 28 years ago, Cage is spoiling not to fight. “I do this to avoid doing that,” he tells the hardass General Brigham (Brendan Gleeson). A former ad agency spin doctor, Cage joined the service to create promos that would entice civilians into deadly combat. As Major William Cage in Edge of Tomorrow, he is, at first, the anti-Tom. In last year’s Oblivion, he was a career soldier battling his own clone. In Steven Spielberg’s 2005 War of the Worlds remake, Cruise was an ordinary dad trying to outrun an alien takeover. (It sounds exactly as cool in the original Japanese: O ru Yu N i do Izu Kiru.) Or they could have kept the title of Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s 2004 source novel: All You Need Is Kill. Director Doug Liman and screenwriters Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth could have borrowed a name from any number of James Bond films - You Only Live Twice, Live and Let Die, Tomorrow Never Dies, Die Another Day - to describe its hero’s curse and gift.

EDGE OF TOMORROW MOVIE TV

The movie’s only static element is its title, which oddly suggests a mashup of TV soap operas.

Tom Cruise is the Groundhog Day grunt, and Emily Blunt the Angel Bitch, in Edge of Tomorrow, a furiously time-looping joy ride and the smartest action film of the early summer season.

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