Edge of Tomorrow

[owlmoose]

T and I saw it today, and we both really liked it. Not a perfect movie by any means, but in most respects, it was better than I expected it to be. From the trailer, I had thought it would be a dark, brooding, by-the-numbers action sci-fi, but the tone was much lighter. It replicates the experience of playing a video game better than any other movie I've seen -- and I mean that in a good way. And there were some fun trope subversions that we enjoyed a lot.

Until the endgame (literally, the boss battle), where everything suddenly got much more formulaic, and there was tacked-on happy ending that was so cliche, I literally rolled my eyes. Not so terribly that I rescind the recommendation, but it was a little disappointing, as if the filmmakers saw that they might manage to do something unusual and backed away from it for their Hollywood ending.

Comments

[ossobuco]

Yes re: the video game comment. I was really delighted at how truly it felt like playing a platformer. I liked it way more than I thought I would, even having heard pretty good things about it--honestly I was surprised that they could make the ridiculous premise work so smoothly.

The real joy in the film was definitely the humor and how non-traditional the protagonists were, so yeah, the ending was a jarring shift and I found myself just waiting to be done with it... and I wish that Rita had gotten to do more at the end as well. After all the time they put into showing how badass she was, it just didn't do her justice. (And I rolled my eyes at the kiss. :/ So done with compulsory romance between opposite-gender action heroes.)

[owlmoose]

I rolled my eyes at the kiss, too. Maybe it makes sense from his perspective, but from hers? For the most part, I feel like the movie did a good job of remembering that, no matter how many times Cage goes through the loop, Rita has only known him for a day, but they blew the illusion there. It felt forced.