Edge of Tomorrow
Release Date: 5th June 2014 - Australia
Production Companies
Warner Bros. Pictures (presents)
Village Roadshow Pictures (in association with)
RatPac-Dune Entertainment (in association with)
3 Arts Entertainment
Viz Productions (in association with)
Distribution
Roadshow Distribution
Genre: Sci-Fi
Rating: M
Runtime: 113 minutes
Budget: $178,000,000
Box Office Gross: $370,541,256
(Worldwide)
Plot Summary
When Earth falls under attack from invincible aliens, no military unit in the world is able to beat them. Maj. William Cage, an officer who has never seen combat, is assigned to a suicide mission. Killed within moments, Cage finds himself thrown into a time loop, in which he relives the same brutal fight -- and his death -- over and over again. However, Cage's fighting skills improve with each encore, bringing him and a comrade ever closer to defeating the aliens.
Cast
Tom Cruise - Cage
Emily Blunt - Rita
Brendan Gleeson - General Brigham
Bill Paxton - Master Sergeant Farell
Jonas Armstrong - Skinner
Tony Way - Kimmel
Kick Gurry - Griff
Franz Drameh - Ford
Dragomir Music - Kuntz
Charlotte Riley - Nance
Masayoshi Haneda - Takeda
Noah Taylor - Dr. Carter
Lara Pulver - Karen Lord
Madeleine Mantock - Julie
Terence Waynard - Cruel Sergeant
Crew
Executive Producer/Director - Doug Liman
Based on the Novel “All You Need Is Kill” - Hiroshi Sakurazaka
Screenplay - Christopher McQuarrie and Jez & John-Henry Butterworth
Executive Producers - David Bartis, Bruce Berman, Hidemi Fukuhara, Joby Harold and Steven Mnuchin
Producers - Jason Hoffs, Gregory Jacobs, Tom Lassally and Erwin Stoff
Producer/Unit Production Manager - Jeffrey Silver
Co-Producer/Unit Production Manager - Tim Lewis
Co-Producer/First Assistant Director - Kim H. Winther
Production Designer - Oliver Scholl
Costume Designer - Kate Hawley
Director of Photography - Dion Beebe
Second Unit Director/Stunt Coordinator - Simon Crane
Stunt Coordinator - Wade Eastwood
Special Visual Consultant - Guillermo del Toro
Special Effects Supervisor - Dominic Tuohy
Visual Effects Supervisor - Nick Davis
Visual Effects Supervisor: SPI - Daniel Kramer
Visual Effects Supervisor: Framestore - Jonathan Fawkner
Visual Effects Supervisor: MPC - Gary Brozenich
Film Editors - James Herbert and Laura Jennings
Music - Christophe Beck
Review
Director Doug Liman has turned his attention to helm EDGE OF TOMORROW, an ideal sci-fi action blockbuster that was based on a Japanese manga.
It’s interesting to know how the director has attempted to do another science-fiction breakthrough that is unlike his failed effort JUMPER (click here). The film is expertly well-written with a smart concept and is full of non-stop action, but is fascinating to look at its certain style of repetitiveness which feels like GROUNDHOG DAY all over again. Although the time loop structure of EDGE OF TOMORROW is at times difficult to understand, but that was all part of its premise and style. The producers were able to get actor Tom Cruise in the lead role as well as his screenwriting collaborator Chris McQuarrie to write the feature-length film adaptation.
The main actor Cruise deserves to be in the movie as he seems confident and is better at handling another great performance in his career. Emily Blunt is a fantastic leading actress who has done so well in her part and shares some incredible chemistry with the aforementioned male actor. The cinematography is impressive and the alien race Mimics are strangely perfect in their interesting visual design.
EDGE OF TOMORROW is terrific, and stylish, but it was a great movie after all. I really did enjoy it and in sometime, I will have to compare it to the other movies that came before that I have and have not experienced.
Star rating: (8/10) Very Good Movie
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