Edge of Tomorrow (film)


Edge of Tomorrow also marketed with the tagline Live. Die. Repeat. nb is a 2014 American science fiction film starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. Doug Liman directed the film based on a screenplay adapted from the 2004 Japanese light novel All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. The film takes place in a future where Earth is invaded by an alien race. Cruise plays Bill Cage, a public relations officer with no combat experience, who is ordered by his superior to join the first wave of, and film a crucial landing operation against the aliens. Though Cage is killed in combat, he finds himself in a time loop that sends him back to the day preceding the battle every time he dies. Cage teams up with Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski Blunt in seeking a way to defeat the extraterrestrials.

A race of extraterrestrials called Mimics has taken over continental Europe. In England, General Brigham, head of humanitys United Defense Force, orders Major William Cage, a public affairs officer with no combat experience, to cover the next days massive amphibious assault on France. Cage objects to the dangerous assignment and threatens to put the blame on Brigham if the landing fails. Brigham, however, has Cage arrested Cage is knocked out trying to escape. He wakes in handcuffs at a forward operating base at Heathrow Airport and discovers he has been demoted to private, charged with desertion, and assigned to J Squad, under the command of Master Sergeant Farell.The invasion is a disaster for the humans. Cage, despite his inexperience and incompetence, kills an unusually large Mimic, but dies covered with its blood. He wakes up and finds himself back at Heathrow the previous morning. He cannot get anyone to believe his story that he knows the invasion will fail. Cage repeats the loop of dying on the beach and waking at Heathrow over and over again. Finally, he encounters the famous Sergeant Rita Vrataski during the invasion. The brusque soldier witnesses his ability to anticipate events, and tells him to locate her the next time he wakes up. ........

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