Edge of Tomorrow

"Live. Die. Repeat."

2014 1h 54m EN

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7.6

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91%

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7.9

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★7.6TMDB · 15,594🍅91%Rotten Tomatoes●71Metacritic★7.9IMDB · 802,767

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Synopsis

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Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same day and is forced to fight and die again... and again - as physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop.

“Live. Die. Repeat.”

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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

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Doug Liman
Writers: Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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$178M budget — tentpole studio territory.

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ERA

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Released 12 years ago.

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CAST

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800+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Doug Liman, shot by Dion Beebe. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Christophe Beck. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor James Herbert shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt and Brendan Gleeson carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Live. Die. Repeat.".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Doug Liman directs. Dion Beebe behind the camera. Christophe Beck scores. James Herbert cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1$178M budget — tentpole studio territory.
2Released 12 years ago.
3800+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
4Directed by Doug Liman, shot by Dion Beebe. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Christophe Beck. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor James Herbert shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt and Brendan Gleeson carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "Live. Die. Repeat.".
9IMDB entry: tt1631867 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10The top-rated still from this film on TMDB has 6 community votes — a signal the frame composition stuck with viewers.
1115,594 TMDB user ratings logged — serious cultural footprint.
12Classified under 20 themes, including "deja vu", "based on novel or book", "restart", "military officer".
13Released under 17 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Dion Beebe
Original score: Christophe Beck
Editing: James Herbert
Production design: Oliver Scholl
Costume design: Kate Hawley
Makeup / hair: Michael White
VFX supervisor: Gary Brozenich
Sound: Chris Burdon
Stunt coordinator: Susana Torres
Runtime: 114 min · 1h 54m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $178,000,000
Box office: $370,541,256
Return: 208% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Rotten Tomatoes: 91% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 71/100
IMDB rating: 7.9/10 · 802,767 votes
MPAA: PG-13

Awards

11 wins & 38 nominations total

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What people are saying

Andres Gomez2014-09-25
★ 7/10
Interesting enough and with a decent script for this kind of Sci-Fi movies. The FX are also OK. Tom Cruise does an OK job and Emily Blunt nails her character, being the brightest thing in screen every time she appears.
casinoslotguy2014-10-04
★ 8/10
Not a bad movie, got kind of sick of the "ground hog day" effect. Could have used less of that, all in all pretty enjoyable to watch.
Dark Jedi2014-10-24
★ 7/10
I have to say that this movie was surprisingly enjoyable. I did have my doubts about it. I always have doubts about movies that manipulate time. I guess one advantage the movie has is that it does not really involve time travel and changing the past to influence the future but “only” resetting a day and living it over and over again. The entire concept is of course still totally ludicrous. Even if we forget about the feasibility about resetting time altogether there are just so many things that are wrong with the concept. For example, is time reset all over the universe or just on Earth? Both of those avenues create their own issues further down the line of course. Even if we try to forget these larger issues there are the issue that as soon as Cage altered his own behavior from one repetition of that day to another he would alter the chain of events and what he knew was the events in the previous repeat would no longer be certain in the one he was living right then. Not to mention that he had a longer and longer chain of people to convince on a single day and still get the job done. Okay, enough harping about that. If you manage to lock out all these annoying issues with the story what remains is, as I wrote before, actually a fairly enjoyable movie. It is primarily a science fiction action movie of course and the action as well as special effects are not bad at all. We get treated to plenty of the classical déjà vu scenes were Cage tries to convince people by predicting their immediate future in minute details. Classical and very not innovative but well done and I have to admit that I am a bit of a sucker for these impress-and-surprise someone scenes. On the whole the movie managed to use the basic concept of reliving the day and make it feel reasonable fresh despite it not being a entirely new idea. The fact that the acting was quite adequate and that both Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt made a good performance as far as I am concerned of course helped. Naturally the movie builds up towards the climactic battle against the alien central organism and of course everyone (who Cage managed to convince) have to throw in their lives to get Cage in position for the final attack. Personally I liked the ending although I have to say that I was a bit miffed that the writer did not manage to come up with some more imaginative ending scene between Cage and Rita though. Bottom line, an enjoyable movie well worth watching.