Edge of Tomorrow Review

Edge of Tomorrow Review: Live, Die, Repeat...
     The tag line for the movie Edge of Tomorrow seems a bit like Star Tom Cruise's career as of late.  Live, Die, Repeat.  Can Cruise bounce back from last summer's box office flop Oblivion with another Sci-Fi thriller?
     The film starts out showing us a number of news reports and talk shows discussing  a number of asteroids that have hit Earth. It just so happens to turn out that those asteroids contained aliens who have quickly attacked and taken over most of Europe.  In response to the Alien attack, the World has somehow united in a grand military alliance headquartered in London (Not Washington DC?).  Cut to Tom Cruise's character Major Cage who we quickly find out is definitely not the action hero we were expecting.  After being paged to the HQ, Cage attempts to blackmail a superior officer in an attempt to stay off the front line invasion task force.  He is promptly arrested for desertion and finds himself waking up in a military base as they prepare to invade France.  From this point on Cruise gets stuck in the tag line cycle; live, die, repeat.  At times this film falls into feeling much like that terribly difficult video game you played as a child.  You die and then have to repeat what you did hundreds of times before you get back to that spot again so you can dodge left, or duck, or jump.  The film does take a nice turn finally when Cruise and his mentor, war hero Rita Vrataski played by Emily Blunt, finally escape the beach portion of the invasion and treat us to a few new scenes and some good on screen chemistry.  The film really comes together in the last few scenes leading up to a fun shoot'em up kamikaze-like battle.
     Overall this film is a nice summer thriller and definitely a nice bounce-back movie for Tom Cruise.  It may not have the action and pure adrenaline as a Mission Impossible film, but it does have great futuristic battle scenes, sweet super-soldier suits, some nice comedic training sequences, and a surprising performance from Emily Blunt as an action hero. I give this film 3.5 out of 5 stars and believe this film is worth your cash at the box office.