Edge of Tomorrow

[Peter Stewart]

Saw This Friday night. Absolutely fantastic. One of the better sci-fi movies I've seen, and not just recently or this year. I wouldn't put it in quite the work of art category, but it's worth seeing and seeing in theaters at that. Tom Cruise as usual puts on a good performance, Emily Blunt pulls off her role with surprising physically for an actress that has usually taken more subdued roles, and movie moves along at a great pace in spite of the time travel shenanigans.

Good action, good humor, great monsters, solid plot, and for the most part it avoids jumping the shark.

Ya'll should take a look.

[yellowdingo]

despite being called cruise's best fim in decades, that is apparently a criticism of his decline

[Herbo]

Starship Troopers meets Groundhog Day

What's not to love? It's also well put together, engaging (if a tad longish for what it offers), and worth the price of admission. AND ... it's not a bloody remake, offshoot or reboot of an existing franchise.

Whether or not it's Tom Cruise's best work is entirely irrelevant. He's good in it, it's a fun movie. Go check it out at some point, imo.

[John Kretzer]

I completely agree with Peter Stewart and Herbo above in their comments.

I will also add the alien design is awesome.

[Tin Foil Yamakah]

I just saw it last night, really enjoyed it. I recommend seeing it in 3D.

[magnuskn]

Yes, an excellent movie. Emily Blunt looks like she could break you in half. :)

[Matthew Koelbl]

Saw it last night, thought it was great. Wasn't bothered or confused by the ending. A good, solid sci-fi flick.

[magnuskn]

Could you try to explain it, then? I really didn't get why what happened did happen in that exact way. Spoiler tags advised, of course. :)

[Matthew Koelbl]

magnuskn wrote:

Could you try to explain it, then? I really didn't get why what happened did happen in that exact way. Spoiler tags advised, of course. :)

Somewhat conjecture, but here is how I made sense of it:

Spoiler:

During the movie, Cage is exposed to the blood of an Alpha, which lets him tap into the Mimic's time-manipulation ability - when an Alpha dies, the Omega can sense this in the past, and resets time. In this case, Cage takes on the role of the Alpha, so when he dies, this triggers the reset, and he retains the knowledge of what has happened.

At the end of the movie, the Omega dies, and my assumption is that since the Omega is constantly connected to its perception of the future, when it is killed in the future, its consciousness also experiences that death in the past.

So I viewed the ending not as another reset, but instead as its death in the future causing a ripple effect that killed it in the present. Cage's consciousness happened to be carried along for the ride, due to being exposed to the Omega's blood at the end. And presumably the ripple effect went back further in time due to the Omega being a more powerful entity than the Alpha.

Sure, it involves some guesswork and assumption, but nothing that seems too outrageous once you accept the initial premise of a race of time-manipulating aliens.

[magnuskn]

Yeah, it kinda works and I thought mostly the same. I just had hoped that someone would have come up with an even better idea. :)

[Peter Stewart]

My take on the ending

Spoiler:

The Omega is a static object in time, immutable. Regardless of whether or not time resets or not, the Omega does not change. As a result, when time was reset the final time it was left in its destroyed state, while Cage was carried backwards.

[Herbo]

further time vortex mind fudging

Spoiler:

My take on it was similar to Peter Stewart's. The Omega would also have been dead on its original impact since it occupied all time streams from its original insertion to its death under the Louvre.

It just so happens that Cage was randomly sent back to his helicopter arrival in London (likely because he doesn't have anything like the control that the Omega did). So in his final time stream, the original attacks and invasion have still happened. If he had jumped further back, he might have still been in his marketing firm. However, from a Hollywood ending standpoint, his final reset point also means that he has a legit chance at catching back up with Rita since she will already have suffered and recovered from her run-in with an Alpha. Thus she'd be cognizant and maybe amenable to Cage's knowing her in the future. Another tip of my cap to the ending of the movie, is that we don't know.

[Greylurker]

It was pretty good, what complaints I have stem from comparisons to the comic. The robosuites look way cooler in the comic and the ending in the very different.

Had I never read the comic I'd probably be ok with it all (though the robosuites still look clunky)

[MMCJawa]

I thought it was quite good, but was annoyed a bit by the ending. I wonder how much the appeal of the movie lies in seeing Tom Cruise getting killed over and over again.

[KJL]

Horrible thought.

Spoiler:

The Omega dying before it is killed is inconsistent with the rest of the film. Admittedly the Omega is different but if the death of the Omega allows it to throw its own consciousness back in time in the same way that the Alphas and Cage and Rita did (which would be consistent), then it would know how it died. The obvious requirement is then to prevent the events that led to its death. So Cage must not go onto that beach tomorrow morning. Or at least not go to Paris in the middle of the night. So the Omega relocates itself and ceases effective resistance while marshalling sufficient of its forces to defend or attack elsewhere. Cage isn't shanghied and he, Rita and J squad don't go to the Louvre. The Omega isn't killed. The Russians and Chinese push forward in the East, the USA, UK and Canada land in France unopposed, push forward carelessly thinking their enemy is finished, and then run into a massive ambush later and are wiped out?

This is consistent with what is shown in the film, allows for endless sequels if it does well, and has only taken me one showing and 2 1/2 days to think of so I'm sure someone else has thought of it before me.