Live Die Repeat:Edge of Tomorrow
Surprisingly lighthearted. It rips off more than its fair share from other recent sci-fi: you have the groundhog-day effect thing from source code, the quasi mechanical-exoskeleton alien army and scene almost exactly like the one from the Matrix Revolutions .
Too much Tom Cruise relinquishing his seemingly only way of plucking heart strings via the reprisal of his contrived sensitive guy shtick like he brings the script for Jerry Mcguire to every film and tells the screen writers of the current film "get some of that bs in there"
The film has glaring plot-holes, action that feels muddled and doesn't "pop." Aesthetically it tries to walk the line between District-9's low-fi, stripped-down illustration and anime cartoon(think pacific rim; the man heroin in LDR has a giant anime style sword), which sounds good in theory but is not successful. Like the humor and lightheartedness of the subject matter, the in-cohesive aesthetic also leaves the viewer confused as to emotional response attempting to be emitted; in trying to find universal appeal the film achieves less of any.
This complaints could be directed at any of Tom's sci-fi films you may suggest. Not so, i say. I was genuinly excited for the film: Tom cruise-whether due to scientologist beliefs or not-manages to be pretty good in sci-fi action category. Minority Report being easily one of the best science fiction films of the post-2000 era. War of the Worlds set pieces were dramatic and didn't waste time with cliche tom cruise characterization.
Live Die Repeat/Edge of Tomorrow actually got fairly decent reviews. Be warned, the movie is not worth it, go watch Snowpiercer on netflix instead
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