Movie Overview
Edge of Tomorrow (alternatively known by its tagline Live. Die. Repeat. is a 2014 American science fiction action 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 film the first wave of 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.In late 2009, 3 Arts Productions purchased the rights to the novel and sold a spec script to the American studio Universal Pictures. The studio produced the film with the involvement of 3 Arts, the novel's publisher Viz Media, and Australian production company Village Roadshow. Filming began in late 2012, taking place in England at Leavesden Studios outside London, and other locations such as Trafalgar Square and Saunton Sands. Nine companies handled the visual effects.
The film was released in theaters on the weekend of May 30, 2014 in 28 territories, including the United Kingdom, Brazil, Germany, Spain, and Indonesia. On the weekend of June 6, 2014 it was released in 36 additional territories, including North America (United States and Canada), Australia, China, and Russia. The film grossed over $370 million in theaters worldwide and received largely positive reviews from critics.
In 2061, a race of extraterrestrials called Mimics has taken over continental Europe. In England, General Brigham, head of humanity's United Defense Force, orders Major William Cage, a public affairs officer with no combat experience, to cover the next day's 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".
Vrataski introduces Cage to Dr. Carter, a former government scientist and expert in Mimic biology. Cage learns that the kind of Mimic he killed in his first loop, an "Alpha", resets time when it is killed, giving the Mimics a seemingly unbeatable advantage. Cage acquired this ability when he died doused in the Alpha's blood. Vrataski had herself gained this ability and became an effective killer of Mimics, but lost it after receiving a blood transfusion after she was wounded. She tells Cage that they must hunt the Mimics' hive mastermind, the "Omega", and destroy it.
Over many time loops, Vrataski trains Cage to make him a more formidable soldier. Frustrated by his continued failures, he retreats to London during one loop, but learns that the Mimics will attack the city after defeating the invasion force. Cage and Vrataski spend many more loops learning how to survive the battle on the beach and get inland, based on his vision of the Omega hiding within a dam in Germany. Over the iterations, Cage comes to know Vrataski, who is humorless and only interested in killing Mimics. After they reach a point where she dies no matter what he does, Cage decides to hunt the Omega alone. When he finally reaches the dam, he discovers that the Omega is not there. Realizing that the vision was a trap, Cage kills himself before an Alpha can bleed him out and prevent him from resetting the day.
Cage and Vrataski infiltrate the Ministry of Defence to obtain a prototype built by Carter that will allow them to learn the Omega's true location. Cage finally persuades General Brigham to give him the device, though his men then try to capture them. During the pursuit they discover that the Omega is under the Louvre Pyramid in Paris, but are both injured. Cage is given a blood transfusion, which destroys his ability to reset time.
After Vrataski frees Cage, they go to Heathrow and recruit J Squad to help destroy the Omega before the invasion begins. They fly to Paris, where the other soldiers sacrifice themselves to enable Cage and Vrataski to get beneath the Louvre. Just before Vrataski lures away an Alpha standing between them and the submerged Omega, she kisses Cage. The Alpha kills Vrataski and mortally wounds Cage, but not before he can prime and drop a belt of grenades into the Omega's core, destroying it and neutralizing all Mimics.
The dying Cage floats down through the water into the Omega's blood. He awakens en route to his first meeting with Brigham. Brigham announces on TV that Mimic activity has ceased following a mysterious energy surge in Paris. Cage travels to Heathrow on his own, where others treat him with respect due an officer. He finds Vrataski, who is as curt to him as in previous loops, and laughs.
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