11/1/2023 0 Comments Live die repeat edge of tomorrow![]() I remember everything so I don’t need to talk about it” when Cage pushes her to tell her about someone she loved is beautiful. Her quiet, heartbroken reflection of “I watched him died 300 times and I remember every detail. She’s not quite enough of a focus where you can just pretend the movie is actually about her, but she does provide the best emotional beats. They just show Cage and Rita getting closer and closer to their goal.īlunt’s Rita is awesome and I don’t know why the movie wasn’t about her. The video-game-like scenario also helps it, and I’m glad they never spent too much time repeating the same thing over and over. However, it moves at a quick pace and at under two hours, it doesn’t drag things out too much. To be fair, Live Die Repeat isn’t as nonsensical as a lot of action sci-fi movies are, but it doesn’t really all hold together given too much thought. There’s nonsense about how the aliens are a collective intelligence and time means different things for them and yeah, like Cage being a 50-year-old private, just go with it. Turns out, Rita also used to be going through the same time loop but isn’t anymore. After encountering Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt), the so-called “Angel of Verdun,” on the battlefield, she realizes what is happening to Cage and tells him to find her the next time. I appreciate that Cage doesn’t spend a lot of time freaking out about the time loop and what’s happening to him, but instead, tries to use his prior knowledge of events to improve the outcome. But not before being sprayed with alien blood. ![]() His squadron immediately hates him (which, fair) and basically leaves him to die on the beach. (Suspend your disbelief that the fiftysomething Cruise - no matter how young he still looks - would be a private in the military and just go with it.)Ĭage is kind of a jerk so it’s hard to feel too bad for him here. They get into conflict with each other and now Cage has been demoted to private and is going to go into battle despite having no actual military training. Not wanting to be blamed for casualties, General Brigham (Brendan Gleeson) wants him to cover it from the inside. ![]() Tom Cruise’s William Cage is a media relations guy for the U.S. So yes, this is the movie where Tom Cruise dies a lot. But for the home market, it was retitled as Live Die Repeat mostly because not enough people went to see a movie called Edge of Tomorrow. It was based on a Japanese novel, All You Need is Kill, but that title was scrapped because of the word “kill.” It was released in theaters with the generic title of Edge of Tomorrow with director Doug Liman’s preferred title, Live Die Repeat, as the tagline. Now, to be fair, this movie also seemed to be confused as to what it was called. When I wanted to watch this movie for the first time, I couldn’t remember what the title was so I just searched for “Tom Cruise dies a lot movie.” Lessons learned: Did anyone learn anything? Maybe something about teamwork.Number of time loops: At least 23 but probably more off-screen. ![]()
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