Edge of Tomorrow
Edge of Tomorrow is a science fiction
action thriller movie released in June, 2014. This movie is written
by Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth and John-Henry
Butterworth and directed by Doug Liman. The screenplay of this movie
is adopted from the Japanese novel All You Need Is Kill by
Hiroshi Sakurazaka. The major characters of Edge of Tomorrow are
played by Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton and Brendan Gleeson.
Edge of Tomorrow is Tom Cruise's next movie after Oblivion, which was
also a science fiction.
Edge of Tomorrow tells the story of
future, when the planet Earth is attacked by some aliens. An
untrained army officer is put in the front line of the war against
those aliens, who finds himself stuck in a time loop where the time
goes back and starts from the previous day every time he is killed.
This special gift is the last hope for human to defeat the aliens.
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| Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt at a scene of Edge of Tomorrow |
Plot:
At the beginning of Edge of Tomorrow,
we see that some aliens have invaded the earth and human are fighting
them in Europe. Major Cage is an U.S. Army's public relation officer
who has no training or experience of combat. He is called by an army
general in Europe and ordered to to cover a fight from the front
line.
Understanding the danger of this job,
Cage refuses to take the order. When he is pressured, he threatens
the general indirectly. As a result, Cage gets arrested and then
knocked down. He wakes up at the Heathrow airport, where the human
troops are assembled to make the attack on aliens tomorrow. In the
meantime, Cage is plotted as a deserter private and is forced to join
a group who will fight the aliens with the help of some robotic
attachments.
In the battlefield, Cage finds that the
aliens were informed about their attack and the people keeps being
slaughtered. The aliens has tricked the humans to use their final
force and the humans are surely going to lose the war. After killing
a special alien, Cage also gets killed. Then the strange thing
happens, Cage find himself waking up again at the Heathrow airport.
Then the same thing keeps happening again and again, he getting
killed in the battlefield and waking up again at the same place. He
tries to tell others about it, but nobody believes.
One time at the battle, Cage finds a
war hero named Rita. She tells him to find her when he wakes up
again. Cage does so and tells her about it. Rita believes her because
the same thing has happened to her also but she has lost it. With the
help of a friend, they find that Cage's ability has made him the key
to locate the alien brain and to kill them. So she train Cage to
survive at the battlefield and after a huge number of trials, finally
Kate and Cage heads to find the alien's brain. But no matter what
they do, they both cannot reach there. Cage reaches there alone and
finds that the aliens are misleading them.
So they now must change their approach.
They try to retrieve a machine from that army general. But they get
caught before they return. With the machine, they locate the alien
brain in Paris. But due to blood loss and insertion, Cage loses his
power to turn back time. So Cage and Kate have only one chance left
to kill the aliens before the aliens wipe out human race from earth
on the battle next day.
My reviews about the movie Edge of
Tomorrow:
First of all, Edge of Tomorrow seemed
as a thrilling and fantastic movie.
The plot of Edge of Tomorrow is
intriguing and innovative. It is good enough to keep you thrilled and
attached to the movie from the beginning to the end. The plot
regularly keep on changing the direction, so whenever you will feel
that you have figured out what is going to happen next, the plot will
take a turn somewhere else. But its true that sometimes seeing the
same thing over and over again for the time loop may feel boring, but
that feeling should not last for more than a few minutes. The ending
of Edge of Tomorrow is also pretty predictable. We expected a better
ending. The cinematography of this movie will seem like a pure
beauty, like the movie Oblivion.
The direction of Edge of Tomorrow was
fantastic, but the screenplay didn't seem completely flawless. We'll
get back to that in a short while.
The casting of this movie was also
brilliant. Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt seemed as the best fits for
their characters and both of them has acted awesomely well in Edge of
Tomorrow. No wonder Tom Cruise is one of the kings of science
fictions for all the beautiful movies he has given us. The acting of
the other characters were also good. Same goes for the dialogues.
The music, sound effects and the
special effects will also seem brilliant in Edge of Tomorrow. The
aliens looked stunning and the special effects of their fighting
seemed beautiful. I wish this movie had more screen time with them.
The locations, set designs, lighting, costumes and the make-ups were
also perfect.
Several times in Edge of Tomorrow, it
may seem like it has some plottholes or discontinuity, but most of
them will be solved soon. But one of the missing parts is, after
taking something from the joint force army general and then having an
accident, how Kate escaped unharmed and could free Cage so easily.
Same confusion stays if you think, after escaping once and then
attending some crime, how they could again enter the army base to
reach to their team. And the ending was dramatically too good for a movie like
this, where everything fitted perfectly. So the only (a little) weak
part of Edge of Tomorrow was its screenplay.
Edge of Tomorrow has no nude scenes and
the gore scenes are avoided nicely, so its safe to watch this movie
with kids.
So, finally, I greatly enjoyed watching
Edge of Tomorrow. Even with the small flaws at the plot, it should
feel like a great piece of work. I will definitely recommend this
movie to all movie lovers, especially the science fiction fans. Edge
of Tomorrow is a must see for you.
How did you like it? Do you agree with
my points? Share your views in the comments. And don't forget to
leave your ratings.
To know more:
IMDB Link: Edge of Tomorrow IMDB
Wikipedia Link: Edge of Tomorrow Wiki
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