Name: Edge of Tomorrow
Release Date (in Singapore): 5 June 2014
Watched on : 24 June 2014
Summary:
An alien race has hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault, unbeatable by any military unit in the world. Major William Cage (Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously dropped into what amounts to a suicide mission. Killed within minutes, Cage now finds himself inexplicably thrown into a time loop-forcing him to live out the same brutal combat over and over, fighting and dying again...and again. But with each battle, Cage becomes able to engage the adversaries with increasing skill, alongside Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski (Blunt). And, as Cage and Vrataski take the fight to the aliens, each repeated encounter gets them one step closer to defeating the enemy.
Summary written by: Warner Bros. Pictures
Summary from: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1631867/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt
Personal Ratings: 3.5
Honestly, when I saw this trailer, I didn't think that it would turn out nice. I really didn't see how can dying so many times be interesting.
If I were to compare this with transformers (since their both action comedy), I wold say that this show is a lot lighter. For people that do not like content heavy movies, this movie would be a lot nicer. It's really light and easy to take in, there isn't much complexity to it.
Despite having a light and straightforward story line, they really did a good job attracting the viewers into the movie.
At first I didn't get why they didn't told us from the beginning what they were fighting against. So I became quite restless, and wondered if they were ever going to tell us at all. But at the end, I think they made the right choice to keep it secret until the scene where Cage faced the enemy. It really got the viewers to be attracted to the first part of the movie, since it was really dry and a little slow.
I also thought that killing Rita at the first scene of the war was really good too. It kind of got people to start questioning about the strength of the enemy; since if the strongest warrior was too fall what other tricks did she use to win the first war.
If I were to compare this with transformers (since their both action comedy), I wold say that this show is a lot lighter. For people that do not like content heavy movies, this movie would be a lot nicer. It's really light and easy to take in, there isn't much complexity to it.
Despite having a light and straightforward story line, they really did a good job attracting the viewers into the movie.
At first I didn't get why they didn't told us from the beginning what they were fighting against. So I became quite restless, and wondered if they were ever going to tell us at all. But at the end, I think they made the right choice to keep it secret until the scene where Cage faced the enemy. It really got the viewers to be attracted to the first part of the movie, since it was really dry and a little slow.
I also thought that killing Rita at the first scene of the war was really good too. It kind of got people to start questioning about the strength of the enemy; since if the strongest warrior was too fall what other tricks did she use to win the first war.
Liked the paced of the story line. They had a mixture of cut-shorted scenes and long ones. Somehow, even though they were mixed, I really didn't have any problems trying to understand the whole show. It was not confusing at all.
I think they really made use of the plot to their advantage, besides the action and the humor, I also think that the serious side and the romance side was really well balanced. (though there was hardly any romance, which was good).
However, I think that because of the lack of complexity and the lightness of this show really made it feel that, at the end of the movie there is somewhat something lacking overall. The ending part of the show was also somehow really disappointing. Thought that there should have been more emotions when their team mates died.
Recommended for:
Gender: Both
Age: 13 and above
Ratings: PG-13
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