Rating: 9 out of 10, Say what you want about Tom Cruise but he knows how to deliver a summer blockbuster. I feared my high expectations would lead to disappointment but that fear was shattered early on. This is a great sci fi movie told on a grand scale. It’s the love child of a cross breeding of Groundhog Day and Aliens. Cruise plays a smarmy political type officer who’s forced into combat and then is eternally re-cycled, by dying, through the same day until he can figure out how to beat the aliens. Emily Blunt almost steals the movie from Cruise as a fellow soldier afflicted with the same recycling issue. There are some very funny moments as Cruise repeatedly meets his demise while trying to learn how to fight. The only problem comes at the very end where the Hollywood effect is imposed but that doesn’t distract from a really good adventure and who doesn’t want to see Tom Cruise killed a couple hundred times.
MVP: Blunt as Rita
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