Once on the battlefield things play out exactly as they did the day before, only this time he knows they’re going to get slaughtered. Confused and scared, he tries to explain this all to Sergeant Farell (played by Bill Paxton, who just EATS up the scenery, making him one of the best characters in the movie), only to be laughed at and stuck back in with is squad of doomed soldiers. Only problem is, as he dies, he wakes up the previous morning right where he woke up after being slipped into the new recruit ranks. Before he dies though, Cage yanks a claymore from a dead trooper and detonates it as a mimic commander swoops in for the kill. Everything that can go wrong DOES go wrong as the mimics somehow know the invasion force is coming and the entire troop deployment is slaughtered in a matter of an hour. Stumbling around without any influence, seen as just another maggot recruit, Cage is jammed into an exoskeleton and dropped into battle where it’s pretty obvious he won’t live past 15 minutes. After being told he’s being embedded in the invasion force that’s going into France as a publicity stunt for the world to see, he balks and tries to blackmail General Brigham (Brendan Gleeson) into excusing him from duty, only to have himself knocked over the head and slipped into the invasion force as a new recruit. The problem is, he’s a coward who’s really nothing more than a slick talker. Now the earth defense force has sent Major Cage (Tom Cruise), the man who singlehandedly has convinced the world of the need of exoskeletons and the world’s symbol for hope as he raises moral with his public speaking. The tide changed after the battle of Verdan, as one soldier, after only 3 days practicing in the suit, dominated the battlefield, killing hundreds of mimics. Humans have one last ditch effort in the form of robotic exoskeletons, which add massive firepower and huge amounts of augmented strength to match the mimic’s incredible power and hopefully win. No one knows WHY, they just are here, and we’re doing our best to keep ourselves alive as they slaughter us in the millions. Humanity has come to the brink of genocide, as an alien race, known as the Mimics, have landed on Earth and are doing their best to exterminate the human race. By the time I watched it a third time, it was easily one of my favorite movies of the year. I had read the original Japanese Manga that the movie was based on and really enjoyed it, so this was kind of a no brainer that I would be seeing it in theaters, (despite it’s weird retitling to Edge of Tomorrow) even though I was pretty sure they were going to “Cruisify” it. I liked “ Oblivion when it came out a few years ago, as Cruise tends to do well in this sci-fi adventures, so color me intrigued when I realized that he was starring in ANOTHER movie alongside my future wife, Emily Blunt, called All You Need is Kill. Trying harder to make up for his lack of height in some Freudian sort of way, I don’t know, but whatever it is Tom is still a lot of fun to watch on the big screen. I don’t know, maybe it’s because he’s short. He’s been everywhere from Oscar winning in his younger days, to a dramatic nut bag in his aging years, but he still knows how to play the audience like a fiddle and give them what they want. Tom Cruise is nothing if not a fun actor.
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