Edge of Tomorrow (2024)
Based on the reviews here, I watched Edge of Tomorrow on Netflix last night. Let me say I really liked the movie, a lot. However, I am not sure if I saw the movie the same way as everyone here did. Much to my surprise, nobody mentioned this is not exactly the first movie in which the main character is forced to relive the same day again and again. We also saw the same thing happen to Bill Murray's character in Groundhog Day, although that movie was a comedy, and the reliving of each day was used for comic purposes. The way that Tom Cruise's character was forced to relive the same day, in Edge of Tomorrow was a lot more interesting and thought provoking. In the final analysis, to me, the movie explored the way life experience changes the way we handle and react to the same situations. All of us have had a life experience where we wish we could go back in time and do something differently so that there would have been a different outcome. The Cruise character, in the movie, actually gets to do just that over and over again, and there is always something that he finds can be corrected and improved on with the experience he gains in each reliving of the day. I loved the ending.
I read that Cruise and his production company have bought the rights to the sequel and it's in the works. Honestly, 10 years have gone by and both Cruise and Blunt are too old for the respective parts in the film. Hopefully Cruise can put aside his enormous ego and search for a younger, more dynamic, fitter actor and actress to play those characters.
Based on the reviews here, I watched Edge of Tomorrow on Netflix last night. Let me say I really liked the movie, a lot. However, I am not sure if I saw the movie the same way as everyone here did. Much to my surprise, nobody mentioned this is not exactly the first movie in which the main character is forced to relive the same day again and again. We also saw the same thing happen to Bill Murray's character in Groundhog Day, although that movie was a comedy, and the reliving of each day was used for comic purposes. The way that Tom Cruise's character was forced to relive the same day, in Edge of Tomorrow was a lot more interesting and thought provoking. In the final analysis, to me, the movie explored the way life experience changes the way we handle and react to the same situations. All of us have had a life experience where we wish we could go back in time and do something differently so that there would have been a different outcome. The Cruise character, in the movie, actually gets to do just that over and over again, and there is always something that he finds can be corrected and improved on with the experience he gains in each reliving of the day. I loved the ending.
I read that Cruise and his production company have bought the rights to the sequel and it's in the works. Honestly, 10 years have gone by and both Cruise and Blunt are too old for the respective parts in the film. Hopefully Cruise can put aside his enormous ego and search for a younger, more dynamic, fitter actor and actress to play those characters.
