This week, we don our exo-suits once again and face off against time traveling aliens as we take a look at Edge of Tomorrow, or Live. Die. Repeat. - whichever you prefer. We'll discuss the movie cast, sequel that is supposedly in development, and give our own movie review, and more.
Edge of Tomorrow Movie Cast and Crew
Directed by Doug Liman: Prior to directing this film, he was well-known for directing The Bourne Identity and Mr. and Mrs. Smith so his style of directing definitely lends to quick, but memorable action. It’s hard to quantify just how much influence a director has in the final product but Liman leaned heavily on his special effects to pull off the look of the Mimics as well the opening invasion scene.

Tom Cruise as Bill Cage: Thanks to his big-time reputation in Hollywood, Cruise is one of the few actors who can deliver a box office return on name alone and we feel like he delivered one of his more nuanced performances as Cage does not immediately start out as an incredible warrior. He’s a public relations man who’s never seen a combat zone and is thrust into the largest invasion in history when he disobeys a direct order from his general and is shanghai-ed into service. When he’s killed during the invasion, he gains the ability to loop back in time, gain abilities and seeks to kill the Mimics once and for all.

Emily Blunt as Rita Vrataski: In many ways, Blunt’s character is superior to that of Cruise’s. At one point, she gained the time looping ability during a battle at Verdun where she gained the moniker of “The Angel of Verdun” and by the way of montage, she begins to show Cruise the ropes and he begins to gain confidence in using the exo-suits. Later in the film, she and Cage develop feelings for each other, but it’s to maintain a storyline given the nature of the film and the time looping. We’d be okay if a sequel focused on Vrataski and left Cage on the sidelines.

Brendan Gleeson as General Brigham: While Gleeson comes to this film with an impressive pedigree, we weren’t entirely convinced that he knew what type of film he was in. He plays his role completely straight laced especially in the scene where Cage and Vrataski give him the rundown of the invasion of the piece of equipment they’ll need to locate the main Mimic boss, the Omega. We don’t see a ton of Gleeson in this film as he’s in the opening scene meeting Cage and then again during that final meeting.

Bill Paxton as Master SGT Farell: We’d be remiss if we didn’t mention the late and great Bill Paxton who notched another entry in his resume before his death in 2017. His character reeks of cliché, but this is alright with us. We feel that if a film is going to go for clichés then it’s best to embrace them and run with them. Paxton definitely borrowed a good portion of his performance from that off R. Lee Ermey and his performance in the Stanley Kubrick classic Full Metal Jacket.

The cast is rounded out with several Game of Thrones alums with Tony Way (Kimmel) and Noah Taylor (Dr. Carter).
Edge of Tomorrow Development and Filming
We were surprised to learn that this film was based off a Japanese light novel titled All You Need is Kill and plans had been in ...