For this log, I’ll be discussing a movie I recently watched, called Edge of Tomorrow. It is a 2014 science fiction movie starring Emily Blunt and Tom Cruise, and it is based on a Japanese novel called All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. The movie takes place in the near future, where an intelligent alien race, called the Mimics, have invaded Earth and have taken down the world's military units. Also, they’ve also taken over most of Europe. Great.
The main character is a man named Major William Cage (played by Cruise), a public relations officer inexperienced in combat, who ends up being thrust into combat against the aliens. Cage is killed within minutes of the battle. Suddenly, he finds himself starting over and over in a time loop, repeating his experience of the same mission and being killed. With each repeated day, Cage’s combat skills and knowledge of the Mimics improve, and, along the way, he meets and teams up with Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski (played by Blunt) to defeat them.
The Mimics are very interesting aliens to me. They aren’t like the usual aliens we see in movies, ones that are bipedal and are almost human-like. These were strange, quick-moving, four-legged creatures with bodies that looked like they were made of metal shards. They were pretty different compared to other aliens in the media. Very unique.
I really enjoyed this movie! When I saw the trailers for it, I thought that it would be a cheesy, explosion-y, Expendables type of movie, just more futuristic and with aliens. Also, I was definitely confused about how the main character could come back to life many times, as if he were in some kind of video game. The movie was great. I really wish I had seen it in theaters.
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