Chris Stuckmann reviews Edge of Tomorrow, starring Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton. On the map seen at the start of the movie, the capital of Hungary, Budapest, was misplaced. "Edge of Tomorrow" is less of a time travel movie than an experience movie; that statement might not make sense now, but it probably will after you've seen it. Based on Hiroshi Sikurazaka's novel "All You Need is Kill", it's a true science fiction film, highly conceptual, set during the aftermath of an alien.

REVIEW: Edge of Tomorrow: Being Tom Cruise, Forever. The movie's only static element is its title, which oddly suggests a mashup of TV soap operas. Tom Cruise stars in this cleverly crafted and propulsively executed sci-fi thriller about a soldier forced to relive the same End of movie?

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To his utter disbelief (although audiences will suspend theirs easily enough), Cage awakens to find that the day has started. A narratively ambitious sci-fi actioner, Edge of Tomorrow plays out a familiar alien invasion apocalypse drama in a way that, through repetition, allows humanity to learn from its mistakes and have a shot at surviving until another movie's monsters from outer space show up. Edge of Tomorrow movie reviews & Metacritic score: Lt. Bill Cage (Tom Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day Edge of Tomorrow is as exciting as it is unique; with fantastic action, a clever story, a script that forces you to love the main characters and a gimmick that really does work with the. Read Common Sense Media's Edge of Tomorrow review, age rating, and parents guide. Parents need to know that Edge of Tomorrow is a thought-provoking sci-fi thriller that steers clear of some of the usual action-movie cliches -- mainly that women are damsels in distress in need of rescuing.

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As it stands, the uniqueness of the time reset premise and sci-fi action distinguish the film from so many others Tagged as being "Groundhog Day meets Starship Troopers," Edge of Tomorrow is, at its core, a particularly slick and efficiently executed sci-fi/action B-movie. The twisty, entertaining Tom Cruise vehicle Edge of Tomorrow is Groundhog Day re-imagined as a sci-fi war game. Cruise plays a smarmy military PR guy—a physical coward and not ashamed of it—who sells the public on a European campaign against spidery. It's been said before—including by WIRED's own Angry Nerd—but Edge of Tomorrow, out today, might just be the best videogame movie not actually based on videogame.