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Edge of Tomorrow

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No army in the world can match the speed or brutality of the weaponized Mimic fighters or their telepathic commanders. But now the world’s armies have joined forces for a last stand offensive against the alien horde, with no second chances.
Lt. Col. Bill Cage (TOM CRUISE) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is suddenly demoted and then dropped, without any training, into what amounts to little more than a suicide mission.
Cage is killed within minutes but, defying any logic, he wakes up back at the beginning of the same hellish day, and is forced to fight and die again…and again, and again. Direct physical contact with an alien has thrown him into a time loop—dooming him to live out the same brutal combat over and over.
With each pass through the same day, Cage becomes tougher and smarter, and becomes able to engage the Mimics with increasing skill, alongside Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski (EMILY BLUNT), who has killed more Mimics than anyone on Earth. As Cage and Rita take the fight to the aliens, each repeated battle becomes an opportunity to find the key to annihilating the alien invaders and saving the Earth.
Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt are both superb in Edge of Tomorrow, the action sequences are genuinely thrilling and the effects work is impressive throughout. This is definitely worth a trip to the cinema with Tom Cruise back at his best at last.
Reviewed by: Sean Munsanje

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