Cast – Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt
Directed by – Doug Liman
Music by – Christophe Beck
Studio – Warner Bros
Rating – 4/5
Aliens, End of the world, Warships, Endless array of guns and bullets – A typical Sci-Fi movie with aliens has all these aspects. Edge of Tomorrow has loads of these. But what makes it unique and enjoyable is it’s unique story-line and a cleverly crafted screenplay. Coming to the cast, nobody does it better than Tom Cruise. Emily Blunt has an equally powerful characterization and adds a loads of value to the action.
The Story is set at a time when an alien race had invaded the earth and have taken over Western Europe. The aliens are called as ‘mimics’ because of their ability to acclimatize themselves to human combat and retaliate back. Humans finally achieve success by developing specialized battle suits to counter the mimics. Using these Special Soldier Rita Vrataski (Emily Brunt) achieves success at the Battle of Verdun.Humans plan for a final assault on the aliens at the beaches of France. As success is expected, the Americans send in Major William Cage(Tom Cruise) to the scene. Cage who has no experience in combat gets to be part of the J-squad and enters into the assault. As expected he struggles and gets killed by the blood of an alien called ‘Alpha’. Now the aliens aim to take over Earth by their ability to reverse time. Since they could reverse time they know the tricks and strategies of humans and be prepared to handle all those. Since Cage comes in contact with Alpha’s blood he gets the ability to reverse time and resurrects every time he gets killed. As with every death, he learns the tricks of the aliens. He meets Rita and gets to know that she too has the same power. Joined by Dr.Carter (Noah Taylor), they learn that the power source of the alien race called as ‘Omega’ has the ability to shift and reverse time and Omega needs to be destroyed for the war to be won. How they devise their plan to find and conquer over Omega forms the central plot of the story.
Doug Limon has presented a fantastic Sci-fi thriller. The story is well connected and well presented. The audience get imbibed in the well scripted story plot. Several lighter moments arise when William Cage dies and reverses time and returns to his previous state. The dialogues are witty and sometimes humorous. Christophe Beck has presented a very decent background score. Be it countering lot of mimics, dropping off from the jets,firing a volley of bullets, the background score keeps you entertained. The cast of this movie is short and sweet. You have barely 10 characters. Tom Cruise, as always has done complete justice as William Cage. He fits in perfectly at a couple of scenes. His evolution from being unwillingly thrown to the battle field to becoming combat ready to wipe off the mimics is awesome. Emily Blunt performs a Lara Croft. Be it devising combat strategies, throwing of grenades, massacring the mimics she performs an amazing role. Also from the crew, it was known that both Tom Cruise and Emily took up rigorous training for 3 months. They practiced everything from gymnastics to yoga. You could also spot two characters from the Game of Thrones. They are Noah Tyler and Tony Way.
To conclude, Edge of Tomorrow is an awesome Sci-Fi thriller with a witty screenplay. Do watch it for the Storyline !