Edge of Tomorrow

Edge of Tomorrow 2014

★★½

The massively cool first large-scale war sequence of this movie is the only thing that stands out, thinking back. It's simultaneously a good thing and a bad thing.

The action was great, and the movie did a great job putting you in Cruise's perspective while still showing the flow of the battle at large. It's also a great introduction to the Mimics, who are never more terrifying and alien than this first scene.

But other than the video game training sequence/montage once Cruise hooks up with Emily Blunt's Angel of Death character, the rest of the movie is fairly forgettable. Of course, he's bonded with her now*. And of course there's one last huge charge to take a thing to the thing to blow up the thing and save the world.

But I just find myself wishing the rest of the movie had the same momentum and sense of purpose as that first huge mad scramble of a fight scene.

*Just as an aside. This makes for a really weird love story. Cruise has spent countless days with Blunt training. But for her, it's always the first day she ever meets him. It's kind of like 50 first dates in a way.