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Every tom cruise movie where his character dies.

Thanks to obscure drama Taps and the underrated thriller Collateral, Ethan Hunt himself Tom Cruise can say he's been killed onscreen a few times.

Despite his status as a blockbuster hero, Tom Cruise is not unkillable - as proven by the few movies that dared to off one of cinema’s most famous faces. Top Gun: Maverick cast lead star Tom Cruise is a staple of blockbuster cinema who has been a regular fixture in multiplexes for decades now. However, while the actor has played heroes, villains, and even comic relief roles on occasion, one thing Cruise very rarely does onscreen is die. By and large, Cruise is an actor who viewers often (understandably) feel doesn't die in many of his movies.

Besides Edge of Tomorrow - where his many deaths were core to the movie’s central gimmick - thanks to his stardom and screen persona, Cruise’s characters feel all but unkillable. The thought of seeing Ethan Hunt get offed at the end of a Mission Impossible franchise outing is all but inconceivable. However, Tom Cruise has actually been killed off onscreen several times. This includes the aforementioned Edge of Tomorrow putting an end to his character in many creative ways. Here's a rundown of every Tom Cruise character death.

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Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

This one almost feels like cheating, as the very premise of director Doug Liman’s underrated Edge of Tomorrow is that the darkly comic thriller kills off Cruise's smarmy PR officer more times than viewers can keep track of. The sci-fi action movie strands Cruise’s Cage in the middle of an alien invasion occurring in Europe, leaving him to die repeatedly when alien blood accidentally gives him the power to regenerate after each death. With Cage’s 26 regenerations in Edge of Tomorrow , it’s fair to say that it's the Tom Cruise movie that kills off the actor the most times. However, it is worth noting Cage, ironically, survives in the end and saves the day - after dying 26 times in order to complete that goal.

Collateral (2004)

A much darker, more morally ambiguous type of thriller than Edge of Tomorrow , Collateral only kills Cruise’s character off once. However, the Michael Mann-directed movie makes sure to make the death count. Released in 2004 and co-starring Jamie Foxx as a deeply unlucky cab driver, Collateral sees Cruise plays amoral hitman Vincent, an assassin who takes said cab driver hostage and forces him to ferry him from one killing to the next. Taking place over one painfully long, tense night, Collateral concludes with Foxx’s hero saving Jada Pinkett Smith’s DA from becoming Cruise’s final victim by emptying a handgun into the chest of his latest fare. Tom Cruise's Vincent bleeds out on board a morning metro train, waxing lyrical to himself as he dies, presumably without arranging any payment for the lengthy cab ride.

Taps (1981)

Before he was Maverick Cruise played a similarly hot-headed military man in Taps . This dark drama follows the exploits of some students from a military academy who don’t respond kindly to their school being scheduled for demolition. As one of the cast’s less notable names at the time (this being only his second screen credit), Cruise does bite the bullet after a daring, ill-thought-out maneuver has real consequences for all involved. Although set in a military school, there's no denying this Lord of the Flies -esque tale of power and corruption is more akin to Full Metal Jacket than Top Gun , and the drama is well worth a watch for fans of Cruise. Interestingly enough, Cruise’s David Shawn survives until the movie’s closing moments unlike some of his fellow, less fortunate students, and loses his life only when he decides to go out in a blaze of glory rather than submit to the National Guard’s authority. It’s a brutal, bleak ending, one that was effective at the time but is now even more surprising as the later fame of its star makes the young protagonist of Taps seem all the more invincible.

Vanilla Sky (2001)

This one is debatable, as it is left unclear whether Cruise’s character survives the events of Vanilla Sky, possibly the weirdest Tom Cruise sci-fi movie . In essence, the movie, which is a remake of Alejandro Amenabar’s Open Your Eyes, tells the tale of David, a wealthy publishing media magnate whose life takes a trippy, confusing turn when he awakens one morning to find himself mysteriously imprisoned. Vanilla Sky eventually reveals that David is not experiencing reality as he knows it - but is actually in a prolonged lucid dream as doctors work to salvage his face and keep his brain alive for over a hundred years, prompting “Tech Support” to tell him he can choose between returning to the dream or waking up. In an ending not unlike the highly influential cult horror movie Jacob’s Ladder , David decides to wake up - a choice that comes in the form of him jumping off a skyscraper, which most definitely kills the dream version of David, even if his real-life counterpart’s fate is left ambiguous. While there's no way of knowing if Tech Support was telling the truth, viewers can be sure at least one David definitely dies.

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Valkyrie (2008)

The real-life thriller Valkyrie saw Cruise play Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, a German military man most notable for his brave but doomed plot to assassinate Hitler. The titular Operation Valkyrie refers to this plot, and much of the movie's action is devoted to detailing the ins and outs of the almost successful attempt on the Fuhrer’s life. Unfortunately for Stauffenberg, it failed and he was executed by firing squad as its ring leader. As such, unlike his earlier, fictional Top Gun hero Maverick , here the daring exploits of Tom Cruise ’ s character don’t pay off for him and the real-life figure doesn’t make it to the end of the movie alive.

One Theory Suggests Maverick Was Dead For Most Of Top Gun 2

Top Gun: Maverick slides into the list of movies that kills Tom Cruise by way of a fan theory that postulates Pete "Maverick" Mitchell was actually dead after the first scenes of the Top Gun sequel. This is due to how Maverick stubbornly pushes flying at Mach 10 speeds in the first part of Top Gun: Maverick , which results in his plane going out of control and the people on the ground deducing that he must have died. However, it's revealed later that Maverick lived after ejecting from his plane, asking for a glass of water in an unknown diner.

As the proponents of this dark Top Gun: Maverick fan theory argue, Mach 10 speeds would have killed even veteran jet fliers, which means that the entire movie is composed of the ace Navy pilot's final thoughts before succumbing to death in the above situation. Curiously, this explains not just how Maverick survived in the beginning but also the man's uncanny ability to avoid death despite jumping into the most dangerous situations. The way the movie ends happily for everyone in the main cast also supports the idea that Top Gun: Maverick may have been just one dying man's dreams.

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Tom Cruise Relives The Same Deadly Day Again And Again In Edge Of Tomorrow Trailer

"How many times have we been here?"

The full trailer for Doug Liman ’s Edge of Tomorrow just dropped, and it is filled to the brim with all kinds of awesomeness. Beyond our wholly scientific assessment, I think you’ll find an engaging, visceral, terrifying an stimulating science-fiction extravaganza waiting in the trailer up above (shared via YouTube ). Click. Play. Enjoy!

What do we know about Edge of Tomorrow , beyond the fact that it stars Tom Cruise (still one of largest stars on the planet) and Emily Blunt ? Written by Christopher McQuarrie , Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth, the twisty film casts Cruise as a man who’s forced to relive the same day over and over, waking up every time he dies. But he isn’t watching the annual Groundhog Day celebration! He’s engaged in a lethal, futuristic battle that threatens to wipe out civilization.

Still, it does remind us of Groundhog Day .

And Looper .

However, this full trailer makes the movie look so much better than earlier marketing materials, which couldn’t possibly get into the intricate details of Liman’s story. (Which, no doubt, were punched up by Cruise’s hired gun of a screenwriter, McQuarrie.) The hook of the plot is that Blunt’s character understands, to a certain extent, the odd time loop that has swallowed up Cruise’s character. And the two are using that as an advantage over the alien race that they are fighting.

Trailers are supposed to sell tickets. Edge of Tomorrow is dropping itself into the middle of a very crowded summer marketplace, hanging its hat on Cruise’s name, and the effects on display in this clip. Several other movies have tried that before (hello, Oblivion ) and failed. This clip, however, has me very excited for Edge of Tomorrow . I still wish it retained it’s original, bad-ass title All You Need is Kill . So much better. But I’m officially on board with Liman’s upcoming film, which arrives in theaters on June 6. How about you?

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Tom Cruise Keeps Dying in Excellent New EDGE OF TOMORROW Trailer

Watch the excellent new Edge of Tomorrow trailer for Doug Liman's sci-fi actioner starring Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton, and Noah Taylor.

Fresh off this morning’s behind-the-scenes featurette , Warner Bros. has released a fantastic new Edge of Tomorrow trailer for director Doug Liman ’s upcoming sci-fi actioner.  Tom Cruise plays a military officer who keeps being killed during a doomed combat mission to take down a hive-like alien race, only to wake up and relive the same day over and over again.  In order to perhaps change his fate and save humanity, he works with a Special Forces warrior ( Emily Blunt ) to train himself to become a better soldier.  The premise itself is fascinating enough, but this trailer shows more of the relationship between Cruise’s cowardly character and Blunt’s warrior as the two are in training, and it looks incredibly promising.  I also really like the aesthetic that Liman has settled on for the film, and the set pieces look absolutely thrilling.

Hit the jump to watch the new Edge of Tomorrow trailer.  The film also stars Bill Paxton ,  Brendan Gleeson ,  Noah Taylor ,  Kick Gurry ,  Dragomir Mrsic ,  Charlotte Riely ,  Jonas Armstrong ,  Franz Drameh ,  Masayoshi Haneda , and  Tony Way .  Edge of Tomorrow opens in 2D, 3D, and IMAX 3D on June 6th.

Watch the Edge of Tomorrow trailer below via Warner Bros.

Here’s the official synopsis for Edge of Tomorrow :

The epic action of “Edge of Tomorrow” unfolds in a near future in which an alien race has hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault, unbeatable by any military unit in the world. Major William Cage (Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously dropped into what amounts to a suicide mission.  Killed within minutes, Cage now finds himself inexplicably thrown into a time loop—forcing him to live out the same brutal combat over and over, fighting and dying again…and again. But with each battle, Cage becomes able to engage the adversaries with increasing skill, alongside Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski (Blunt).  And, as Cage and Rita take the fight to the aliens, each repeated encounter gets them one step closer to defeating the enemy.

Edge Of Tomorrow Ending Explained: Ready Player Tom Cruise

Audiences have grown accustomed to watching Tom Cruise risk life and limb for his movies, whether it requires him to swing around the outside of the tallest building in the world or belt Foreigner tunes to his co-star's butt . But as un-killable as Cruise seems to be in real-life (or thinks he is, anyway), he's got nothing on his character from 2014's "Edge of Tomorrow."

Directed by Doug Liman, the sci-fi thriller (a loose adaptation of the Japanese novel "All You Need Is Kill") takes place in an alternate 2020 that's somehow worse than the actual one , in which an army of aliens known as Mimics have crash-landed in Germany and quickly conquered much of Europe. Cruise stars as Major William Cage, a selfish PR officer with no real combat experience who's demoted and forced to participate in an invasion against the Mimics, only to find himself trapped in a time loop after being covered in the blood of an unusually large Mimic, and dying in battle.

Confounded about what's happening, Cage gets some clarity from Sgt. Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt), a war hero who was formerly stuck in her own Mimic-induced time loop. For the most part, "Edge of Tomorrow" is pretty cohesive in the way it lays out the story's rules for time travel, at least until you get to the movie's somewhat baffling ending.

The Ending of Edge of Tomorrow

As Cage soon learns, the larger Mimics are known as Alphas and exist as part of a super-organism controlled by the Omega: a creature that resets the day when an Alpha is killed in combat, allowing the Mimics to keep re-fighting the same battle until they win. Rita, like Cage, discovered this after being exposed to an Alpha's blood, allowing her to tap into the Omega's power until she got a blood transfusion.

Much of "Edge of Tomorrow" consists of repeated scenes of Cage training and trying to find the Omega with Rita. This also necessitates Cage dying, over and over, allowing him to learn from his mistakes in the same way someone playing a video game has to keep tackling the same challenges until they can beat them without getting their avatar killed. Along the way, Cage grows more selfless and empathetic, much like Bill Murray's uncaring weatherman Phil Connors did in the classic time loop comedy "Groundhog Day."

Eventually, Cage and Rita do locate the Omega, only for Cage to lose his time-travel abilities after he suffers a severe injury and gets a life-saving blood transfusion before he can kill himself. As such, Cage seems to die permanently while sacrificing his life to kill the Omega before unexpectedly making contact with the creature's blood, sending him back not one, but two days to a reality where Cage was never demoted and humanity is winning the war against the Mimics.

Wait, What?

While critics and audiences mostly liked "Edge of Tomorrow" when it first came out, its ending left many perplexed, given the way it seemed to blatantly violate the film's established rules about the Omega's powers. As co-writer Christopher McQuarrie explained, the original plan was to end the movie on a darker note. However, as the film evolved and began to play up the comedy inherent to Cage getting killed time and time again, those plans had to change with it:

"... We really struggled to deliver what the movie needed to be emotionally. I know the ending was somewhat controversial, with some people who didn't like it, but I think the only way to make those people happy would to end the movie in a way that wasn't happy. We weren't interested in doing that. It needed to end in a way that wasn't harsh."

Shaky logic aside, the ending is satisfying when it comes to Cage's arc. At the start of "Edge of Tomorrow," Cruise's character is self-serving and hasn't done anything to earn the respect afforded to his ranking in the army. So, when soldiers snap to attention as he walks by in the movie's last scene, it feels like he actually deserves it. What's more, Cage is so happy to see Rita alive that he doesn't care that she no longer remembers him or what he did, cementing the idea that he's more concerned about people beyond himself and less fixated on personal glory.

So, About That Sequel...

Interestingly, McQuarrie has said " Edge of Tomorrow 2 " will clear up all the questions about the first movie's ending ... if it ever happens. The sequel has been in the pipeline since 2015, based on an idea Cruise pitched to McQuarrie. Several rewrites later, the script is now apparently done, with Cruise, Blunt, and Liman all ready to return as soon as Warner Bros. says "Yes."

Therein lies the problem: "Edge of Tomorrow" grossed $370.5 million at the box office against a $178 million budget, which was enough to make it profitable (going by the old rule that a movie needs to gross double its budget in theaters to break even), but nowhere near enough to guarantee a sequel will happen. Not helping matters, Cruise and McQuarrie are still buried deep in the world of "Mission: Impossible," not to mention Cruise and Liman planning to shoot a movie in outer space (you read that right) at some point.

Blunt has admitted that scheduling is a big reason "Edge of Tomorrow 2" keeps getting postponed. The other factor , as Blunt noted, is the budget. In the Covid era, studios often only spend $150-$200 million on surefire bets, as far as their theatrical releases go. And unless everyone involved agrees to take a hefty pay cut, the odds are against Warner Bros. greenlighting "Edge of Tomorrow 2" as a Max exclusive.

Does Edge of Tomorrow Hold Up?

For all the questions its ending raises, "Edge of Tomorrow" works perfectly well as a standalone film. It presents the mythology of the Mimics with as few exposition dumps as possible, there are no attempts to set up sequels, and it recycles the tropes of the time loop sub-genre to tell a new story with a proper message. Compared to the modern landscape, where tentpoles that primarily exist to launch franchises reign supreme, "Edge of Tomorrow" is a breath of fresh air.

Not only that, the action in "Edge of Tomorrow" is genuinely inventive in the way it uses montages as visual shorthand for Cage cycling through his time loop over and over. The spectacle is equally captivating; as often as the movie plays Cage's injuries and deaths for darkly comedic effect, it also makes his pain tangible. You can't help but feel sorry for the schmuck and want to cheer him on, even if the whole situation is kinda his fault. Because of this, there's a real sense of stakes whenever Cage and Rita are in danger, more so than in a lot of recent blockbusters.

That's not to say "Edge of Tomorrow" is without its faults. Its conclusion is still nonsensical, and the quasi-romance between Cage and Rita falls flat, in part because Cruise and Blunt have zero onscreen romantic chemistry. Still, "Edge of Tomorrow" has only gotten better over time, much like a great video game with endless replay potential.

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'Edge of Tomorrow' trailer: Tom Cruise fights aliens and keeps on dying

Imagine fighting to your death in an epic, explosive battle against aliens. Now imagine reliving that death again and again.

That twisted nightmare comes true for Tom Cruise in the upcoming sci-fi action film Edge of Tomorrow . Cruise plays Lt. Col. Bill Cage, who gets trapped in a time loop that continues to bring him back to a fatal battle against a hostile alien race. Emily Blunt teams up with Cruise in the film, based on Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s novel All You Need Is Kill and helmed by The Bourne Identity director Doug Liman.

Check out the trailer below:

Edge of Tomorrow is scheduled to be released in 3D and IMAX 3D on June 6, 2014.

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How Many Times Does Tom Cruise Die In Edge Of Tomorrow On-Screen?

Back in 2014, Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman unleashed a modern sci-fi classic in the form of "Edge of Tomorrow." Based on the Japanese light novel "All You Need Is Kill," the film focuses on a world at war with aliens. Cruise's hapless William Cage finds himself in the middle of a time loop as he's trying to fight the aliens. Each time he dies, Cage's day is reset, forcing him to find a way out of his never-ending cycle of death.

An immersive and playful picture that riffs on classics like "Groundhog Day," the film stands out as one of Cruise's most fascinating non-franchise offerings. Throughout the nearly two-hour-long film, Cruise dies a number of times, forcing his day to reset. Just how many times does the action maverick die on-screen in "Edge of Tomorrow," though? An infographic by X (formerly known as Twitter) user  @george_hatzis from 2015 reveals that Cruise dies a whopping 26 times on-screen in the sci-fi flick.

Of course, this doesn't account for the numerous times Cruise's Cage dies off-screen. In the film, Cage enlists the help of all-around badass and war hero Sergeant Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt) to help train him for the battle with the aliens. She puts him through the ringer, leading to several deaths that we don't see on-screen. We don't know  exactly  how many times Cruise dies in "Edge of Tomorrow," but Liman has thrown out a suggestion. "If you love Tom Cruise, you see him giving a genius performance, and if you hate Tom Cruise he dies like 200 times in the movie," Liman said at an event in 2014 attended by The Guardian . 

Tom Cruise loved playing against type in Edge of Tomorrow

What's brilliant about "Edge of Tomorrow" is how it subverts the cultural standing that Tom Cruise has. Cruise has carved out a generation-spanning reputation as an action superstar who always lives to tell the tale. From franchises like "Mission: Impossible" to "Top Gun," Cruise is always portrayed as a perfect hero who laughs in death's face. "Edge of Tomorrow" plays with this persona, flipping it on its head by being one of the few films to show the actor die. Director Doug Liman has also spoken about how "Edge of Tomorrow" is unique in that Cruise plays a coward. "The amount of times he squeals in this movie — he's an amazing squealer! Other movie stars, in my experience, would have been more hesitant about being that vulnerable," Liman said (via The Guardian ).

In an interview with  ScreenSlam , Cruise discussed the importance of death in "Edge of Tomorrow" and how it comes in many different ways, which is what makes the movie so compelling. "In this film, death is emotional and it's also quite humorous," he said, before discussing how he wanted the stunt team to make each death feel unique. Emily Blunt, for her part, loved having to kill Cruise several times, telling the same outlet that it was "so much fun," adding, "I got to kill him in many different ways." Of course, at the end of "Edge of Tomorrow," Cruise's character breaks out of his death cycle, but fans would love to see Cage thrust back into his nightmare — there's been talk of an "Edge of Tomorrow" sequel for some time now.

Why hasn't Edge of Tomorrow 2 happened yet?

While "Edge of Tomorrow" was a critical success, it wasn't the box office hit that Warner Bros. was expecting, grossing just north of $370 million worldwide. This seemingly put the brakes on the potential franchise. However, despite lukewarm financial receipts, a sequel has tentatively been in the works ever since the film debuted. Director Doug Liman and the film's creative teams have teased a follow-up several times, but things have simply never gotten off the ground. Speaking with Entertainment Weekly in 2021, Emily Blunt revealed that she read a script for a sequel that she loved. "That was an amazing script, but I just don't know what the future holds for it," she said.

Since then, there's been some potentially positive developments on the "Edge of Tomorrow" sequel front. In early 2024, Tom Cruise signed a major production deal with Warner Bros., with him and his team setting up an office at the studio. While it's unclear what exactly Cruise will make at Warner Bros., a report from The Hollywood Reporter states that execs at the studio want to rope Cruise in for a sequel to "Edge of Tomorrow." It remains to be seen if that actually happens, but the film's clout has only grown over the last decade, and the sequel would no doubt make waves at the box office. It would also be a brilliant start to Cruise and Warner Bros.' new relationship. Hopefully, fans will get to see William Cage die a bunch of more times in the near future.

Edge of Tomorrow Made the Time-Loop So Stupid it was Brilliant

Sometimes you just want to watch Tom Cruise level up.

Live. Die. Repeat. That was the title Doug Liman wanted for the 2014 sci-fi movie Edge of Tomorrow , based on Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s novel All You Need Is Kill . The film is an interesting study of the question of whether titles matter. Edge of Tomorrow is not particularly memorable, but it’s hard to say if the two other titles would have worked any better. Warner Bros. must have thought so: they elevated Live. Die. Repeat. from tagline to title on the home media release.

Regardless of the innocuous-sounding name, Edge of Tomorrow is a memorable sci-fi movie that revitalizes an ancient trope. It just hit HBO Max, and it’s worth another look for one specific reason: it’s the only contemporary sci-fi action movie that made time-loops seem brand new again.

Edge of Tomorrow stars Tom Cruise as William Cage and Emily Blunt as Rita Vrataski. She’s a war hero kicking alien ass. He’s a smarmy PR guy who works on ensuring the media feels good about a desperate battle being waged against alien invaders called Mimics. Cruise is a cowardly double-talker, and only by getting stuck in a time-loop does he become less of a douchebag. It’s Starship Troopers meets Groundhog Day .

Edge of Tomorrow is full of stock characters, cliche dialogue, and gaping plot holes. The alien Mimics don’t actually mimic anything, and given that they’re as mighty and unstoppable as the Decepticons from the Michael Bay Transformers movies, you’d be forgiven if you thought they looked like rejects from them.

Their invasion plan, meanwhile, feels borrowed from the playbook of a Doctor Who enemy. The Mimics use time-loops to determine the best way to take over a planet, and can therefore win every battle because they’ve already fought it multiple times. But their power to “reset the day” can be hijacked if you get their blood in your blood, which humanity learns by accident. Vrataski (Blunt) once had that power, but now Cage (Cruise) does. Throughout the course of one day repeated many times over, they have to figure out how to work together to save the world.

In a serialized TV series, these very specific time-loop rules wouldn't fly because they’re patently ridiculous. But this is a very good and very fun sci-fi action movie. What makes Edge of Tomorrow work is twofold: the rules and stakes are explained early and clearly, and Tom Cruise starts off playing against type. These might seem like minor touches, but they’re huge. In an early speech from Vrataski’s ally Dr. Carter (Noah Taylor), the rules of the movie are laid out. The film gets a video game quality embedded in it, and you get that Cruise can keep dying until he figures out how to win. But this simple exposition smartly conceals a late twist: the Mimics are trying to trick the humans into giving them their time-loop power back.

This wrinkle is aided by the fact that Tom Cruise doesn’t begin the movie playing a Tom Cruise. Instead of kicking ass, he’s like Matthew McConaughey in How to Lose a Guy In 10 Days combined with a hypothetical Battlestar Galactica draft dodger. What makes the movie compelling is that the audience is waiting for Cruise to start acting like Cruise. The screenplay was co-written by Cruise’s frequent Mission: Impossible collaborator, Christopher McQuarrie, but McQuarrie slows Cruise’s transition into an Ethan Hunt-level badass. Instead, we ignore how silly these aliens are, because we’re too busy cheering as Cruise gets more Cruise-y to give them much thought.

Emily Blunt and Tom Cruise don’t make for a terribly charismatic couple, but it’s still fun to watch them carve up aliens.

Emily Blunt is a good foil for Cruise who, of course, falls in love with the only person who can help him. For some critics, this romance went too far and devalued Blunt’s performance. And while this may be true in terms of presenting ideal archetypes, Edge of Tomorrow has the same level of realism as Emily in Paris . If anything, the movie has a weird amount of restraint when it comes to the tacked-on love story.

Nothing about Edge of Tomorrow looks good on paper. It’s riddled with contradictions, and the messy ending may leave you wondering what exactly happened. And yet there’s a charming tone throughout. The movie isn’t using time travel to make you feel smart, or Tom Cruise to make you feel sophisticated. Edge of Tomorrow doesn’t pretend to be a smart or sophisticated movie. But it is an effective one.

Throughout the film, Emily Blunt wields an insanely huge anime sword . This weapon seems impractical, and unwieldy, and defies the logic of the fictional world in which it exists. And yet it’s awesome, and when the movie is over you wish you’d seen her use it even more. It’s possible that the edge of Emily Blunt’s sword is where the purest enjoyment of movies exists: we can’t justify it intellectually, but damn if it doesn’t work.

Edge of Tomorrow is streaming on HBO Max .

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A lively 'tomorrow,' lived over and over.

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Tom Cruise as Maj. William Cage, a soldier who's woefully unprepared for battle, in Edge of Tomorrow . Warner Brothers Pictures hide caption

Tom Cruise as Maj. William Cage, a soldier who's woefully unprepared for battle, in Edge of Tomorrow .

It's rarely a compliment to say that a movie is video game-like. That's usually shorthand for effects-heavy, narratively lightweight, CGI shoot'em-ups. Don't get me wrong: Edge of Tomorrow has no shortage of big effects set pieces, a lot of invading aliens getting shot at, and the seemingly ageless Tom Cruise performing death-defying acts on a battlefield. Except that he doesn't defy death, and that's where the film borrows an important quality of video games to anchor its story: Death is never the end.

Death in a video game means rebooting, going back to the last save point and trying again, this time presumably ready for what killed you last time. That's the situation facing Maj. William Cage (Cruise), a weaselly military PR flack who gets railroaded onto the battlefield by a hardened general (Brendan Gleeson) who feels a soldier's wartime duty is to spend at least a little time on the front lines. In this case that means putting on a mechanized exoskeletal battle suit and going up against a horde of "mimics," fearsome alien creatures that have already conquered much of the earth.

Cage, woefully unprepared for battle, can't even figure out how to turn the safety off on the suit's guns when he gets dropped, D-Day-style, onto a French beachhead, only to die a few minutes later, and then awake the day before, back on the base just when this nightmare began. So begins his own video game, in which he eventually lives on the battlefield long enough to meet Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt), a soldier he only knows by reputation, because he'd been using her image in recruiting efforts following her heroic efforts in humanity's only victory in the war so far.

Turns out, her skill at that battle grew out of becoming caught in a loop similar to the one Cage is in now. Hers ended, but when she realizes Cage is going through the same thing, she instructs him to meet up with her after the next time he dies so they can work together.

And die he does, many, many times — often at Vrataski's own hand. Before they can take on the enemy together, she must train him, and she's harder than any drill sergeant. Once she's injured him beyond the point of usefulness, she kills him so he can start again. It's like Phil Connors' piano lessons in Groundhog Day , if the kindly piano teacher put a bullet in Phil's head every time his fingers started to get sore.

Given the world-in-peril stakes, it would have been easy to make this into a grim affair; gritty is the zeitgeist for sci-fi and superheroes these days, after all. But the script (written and rewritten by a number of people over the past few years, but credited to Christopher McQuarrie and Jez & John-Henry Butterworth) has a knowing comedic edge, and director Doug Liman embraces those lighter elements, particularly in the early scenes of Cage caught in the loop at the base, dealing with a comically tough-as-nails sergeant played by Bill Paxton.

Liman has gone the all-business route before with The Bourne Identity , and he's done far-too-glib with Mr. and Mrs. Smith , but this strikes an immensely winning balance between the two. Blunt plays it straight, the hardened supersoldier to Cruise's inept coward. He might get most of the laughs, but she puts the violent period on every punch line.

Ironically, Cage's functional immortality actually ends up highlighting just how fragile humans are. It's contrary to action movie dogma, where the hero's invincibility tends to defy logic. Here, his overall invincibility is a plot point, facilitated by just how easy he is to kill.

That makes most of Edge of Tomorrow refreshing and unexpected, both for its humor and for its upending of action norms. That also makes how badly it misses the landing all the more disappointing, because the climax falls so eye-rollingly back into those same conventions. Suddenly Cage has to become all but invincible to survive the big boss fight at the end of the game.

Of course, tradition also dictates that obviously we can't have a male and a female enduring these trials without them developing feelings for each other. Wouldn't it be even better if Cage and Vrataski weren't just fighting side by side, but kissing a little too?

No. While it might make sense for him, since he's been spending hundreds of repeated days with her, for her he's still new, as he's always been, and they've been spending most of their few hours together just trying not to die. Earlier versions of the script had Cage as a younger man, before Cruise was cast; the shoehorned-in romance is especially exasperating now that he's old enough to be Vrataski's dad.

Edge of Tomorrow does so much so well up to that point that it ends up being a minor disappointment, though. Cage's journey in the film is from cowardice to bravery; it's just too bad the film's convictions end up running the other way.

Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt Keep Dying, and Dying, and Dying in ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ Trailer (Video)

Death is the key to victory in director Doug Liman’s upcoming sci-fi action film

Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt must die to ensure the survival of the human race in a new trailer for “Edge of Tomorrow.”

The duo play soldiers fighting a seemingly-unbeatable alien race attacking Earth in the upcoming adaptation of Japanese manga, “All You Need Is Kill,” from director Doug Liman (“The Bourne Identity”).

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As Blunt explains in the trailer ( above ) Warner Bros. released on Tuesday, the two accidentally “hijacked” the aliens’ power to relive the same day over and over again — which allows the invaders to figure out humanity’s greatest weaknesses.

Using the newfound ability to wake up after death, the soldiers fight repeateedly through the same suicidal mission in hopes of discovering the secret to defeating their extraterrestrial enemy.

“Edge of Tomorrow” hits theaters on June 6.

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Revisiting Tom Cruise’s hilarious dying routine in Edge of Tomorrow: ‘If you hate Tom, he dies like 200 times’ | Scene Stealer

Today, we revisit the wonderful comedy routine of hollywood superstar tom cruise in the underrated action spectacle edge of tomorrow..

More often than not, we wonder why any superstar becomes the way they are. They peak, thanks to a bunch of successful films and they of course have the talent, charisma and energy to hold your attention throughout a movie. But they are humans too, so they fail as well, and once they have been around for a long time, you start to take them for granted. In fact, as they age, you wonder if they have it in them to still deliver a fun, engaging entertainer? Like most big stars, Tom Cruise has also been through that drill, those stages of extreme success and limelight and then seeing more than a few failures.

However, every once in a while, Cruise surprises us by reinventing himself as that same action hero in that very same action genre he has been doing for decades. Just a twist here, and a twist there to that action hero stereotype, and he is seen playing the lead in a big- budget Hollywood spectacle one more time. One of my favourite Tom Cruise performances is from the 2014 release Edge of Tomorrow , also starring the talented Emily Blunt.

Helmed by Doug Liman and penned by the trio of Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth, the action-thriller is ‘full paisa-vasool’. Unfortunately, I saw it after it released in theatres. But Edge of Tomorrow is meant to be consumed on the big screen. The visuals, the aliens, the monsters and its grandeur cry for a big-screen experience. In the movie, Tom plays the unwitting ‘administrator’ guy who is sent to the field to contain the alien invasion which has cost the lives and livelihood of many across the globe. Tom’s William Cage is a reluctant warrior. In fact, throughout the first hour of the movie, he is barely a courageous human being, who does his best to get out of the tricky spot, but alas, fate had other plans.

Now finding himself in a war he had no wish to participate in, eventually William’s survival instincts kick in, only to quickly realise that he cannot really die due to some glitch. In that war, he finds Sergeant Rita Vrataski (Blunt), who has also experienced the same thing in recent past. The two develop an unlikely friendship where they vow to save the world by giving it their all.

While the VFX is great and the performances are on point, what really steals the show are the comedic bits in the film, especially when Tom’s William keeps dying. In a brilliant, never-ending, loopy kind of twist, death, an otherwise awful and gloomy scenario, is transformed into a humorous bit. Tom apparently dies a record 36 times during the course of the film, and each time it is as novel and hilarious as the last.

Speaking about the same, Tom Cruise had said during an earlier media interaction, “I found it very very funny. First of all, playing this unlikely hero, this guy, it was so much fun. On set we were devising how many ways my character could die, it became like a bugs bunny kind of situation.”

Before the film’s release, while conversing with The Guardian, director Doug Liman had confirmed Tom’s death and lightly said, “If you love Tom Cruise, you see him giving a genius performance, and if you hate Tom Cruise he dies like 200 times in the movie.”

All I can say is, listen to Doug and watch the movie on Netflix, YouTube or Amazon Prime Video, if you haven’t already.

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Tom Cruise is unkillable in ‘Edge of Tomorrow’; Shailene Woodley radiantly incurable in ‘The Fault in Our Stars’

W ho’s 3-D IMAXier than Tom Cruise? You can rattle off names, but you’re wasting your time because there’s one answer: nobody. I mean, there are stars taller than he is. There’s King Kong and Godzilla and Marvel, too — I guess. But you don’t even need IMAX for Tom Cruise. His grin is 72×54 feet and practically chattering on your lap. The screen itself is an occupational necessity. Trust me, if Cruise could knock on your door and do his job at your kitchen table, he would. And don’t think for a second that some start-up isn’t hunkered down in Mountain View working on a solution for that one. In the meantime, thank god for digital reproduction, right?

The thrill of a movie like Edge of Tomorrow is in watching a star appear fully high on himself. No one is a bigger Tom Cruise junkie than Tom Cruise. He makes the Robert Downey Juniors and Matthew McConaugheys of the world look like Walter Cronkite. We’re talking about something greater than egotism. We’re talking a total and utter desperation to please. This time Cruise has sprinted the extra block to ensure that even his haters go home happy. In Edge of Tomorrow , he keeps dying, over and over, jarringly, hilariously, triumphantly. The movie, which Doug Liman directed, takes perverse pleasure in knocking him off, then reviving him. Each time Cruise jolts awake you get a jolt, too — unless you’re a hater, in which case all you get to do for almost two hours is suck your teeth. But the movie knows you’re out there too: For death no. 1, Cruise’s face melts through his skull.

The excuse for the flesh sizzling is apocalyptic world war. Metallic-amphibious aliens, dubbed Mimics, have invaded Earth. Humanity teeters on ye olde brink of annihilation. And the planet’s nations have banded together as a combat complex called the United Defense Force. One of its generals, a big, humorless Irishman played by Brendan Gleeson, informs Major William Cage (Cruise) that he’ll be suiting up and going to war. Cage is the sort of slick asshole that made — and then kept — Cruise a star. He used to run an advertising agency. Now he does PR for the Army. He sits in his officer’s uniform across from Gleeson and tries to slither out of conscription (his assignment is to lead the filming of the UDF’s assault on the aliens on Normandy Beach). Cruise does that smug, “Oh, I don’ think so” laugh that, because there are a dozen Cruisier things to talk about, we usually overlook with him. But it’s right up there with Eddie Murphy’s rusted “heh heh heh” and Julia Roberts’s cackle.

It’s a well-done sequence that hits all the Cruise notes. He laughs. He gets prissily pissed (“I do this to avoid doing that ”) and tries to blackmail his way out of his predicament. He leaps out of his chair and bolts for an exit. But there he is, waking up in a vast barracks at Heathrow Airport, still trying to talk himself loose — only now, as punishment for attempted blackmail, Cage isn’t even a major. He’s just another soldier on his way to fight.

An American master sergeant (Bill Paxton) barrels around the barracks with Cage yapping up at him like a schnauzer, pleading his case. It doesn’t work. Before you know it, Cage is fastened into a high-tech “ExoSuit” and, with the rest of his platoon, dangling from a gadget, then dropped onto the modern-day mayhem of Normandy Beach. (Flagrant-allegory alert: The invasion emanated from Germany.) Cruise has dramatically acted the horrors of war before. Here he risks playing the shock for a laugh, running and shooting cluelessly amid real soldiers. Liman doesn’t do a lot of slow motion. You assume he wanted to get out of Saving Private Ryan ’s way while getting at the hyperreal chaos of a nonhistorical war. The movie provides a fresh sense of the utter, lethal arbitrariness of combat: What won ’ t kill you?

Cage lasts amid the death and destruction long enough to catch the arrival of UDF’s most famous soldier, Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt), before a Mimic wends from the sand and, having been shot up, spills acid all over Cage’s face. He pops awake at the barracks on the day of his arrival 24 hours or so before, with a drill sergeant screaming, “Wake up, maggot!” in his ear. On his second or third life, Cage begins to collaborate with Vrataski, who had the same mysterious thing happen to her. None of the whys or the hows of these resurrections are worth going into since they hold the enjoyably ludicrous keys to the larger plot.

Edge of Tomorrow is based on a Japanese novel turned manga called All You Need Is Kill . The script is credited to Christopher McQuarrie and the brothers Jez and John-Henry Butterworth, and it gets off on deploying philosophical business about free will and being the “master of your own fate.” Salvation here is possible only with autonomy. But, you know, it’s also a movie that has just as much to say about generic big ideas as it has time to glorify pop militarism — so feel free to think about Aliens and the shooter game of your choice . This, too, was the premise of Source Code , a 2011 Duncan Jones science-fiction thriller with Jake Gyllenhaal, that addressed, not at all tastelessly, wishful antiterrorism. That movie did a lot with a little. It was like 24 dressing up as Vertigo for Halloween. Edge of Tomorrow is Full Metal Jacket taking two War of the Worlds and waking up inside a version of Groundhog Day that’s been held hostage by Private Benjamin .

I didn’t know who’d directed  Edge of Tomorrow before I got there, but the film has the confidence of someone who understands rising action and appreciates a grim, kinetic sort of visual comedy. Of course, it’s Liman’s name that came up during the closing credits. He can do good, expensive-looking contraptions ( Go , The Bourne Identity ), bad contraptions ( Jumper ), and ludicrous ones (both Mr. and Mrs. Smith and the gassy Valerie Plame thriller, Fair Game , which the Butterworths wrote, are also his). This time Liman has a sharp script, cleverly designed effects, and an inspired editor (James Herbert) and cinematographer (Dion Beebe). The kick of a movie like this comes from the fun being had in its execution. It certainly doesn’t come from originality. The finale uses Paris as such a Dan Brown–level amusement park that you’re sad to discover that Opus Dei isn’t behind the invasion.

Otherwise, it’s rare to get to one of these behemoth productions and discover that there’s wit in the fuel tank — formal wit. It’s not enough for Cage to keep dying. The movie has to be clever about the deaths. The “live, die, repeat” power allows Cage to get some kind of narrative toehold. To master this scenario is to end what seems like a pretty ideologically vacuous invasion. The Mimics are just babysitting the source of their power. Ultimately, this is a two-hour video game. But the filmmakers play it well.

They bring energy to the repetition, and the film comes through. Once, Cruise is crushed by a crashing plane. Then he’s wiped off the screen by a speeding Humvee. Eventually, he stops lapping at the Master Sergeant and, in each new life, tries to convince the grunts and brass of his oracular endowment, in part by finishing the sentences of other soldiers. This is all so Tom Cruise. Of course he’s taking words out of other actors’ mouths! But the movie has a very good time building layered rhythms out of his obnoxious exasperation. He doesn’t have time for the guy from the BBC’s Robin Hood to finish his lines; he’s gotta save the world. Vrataski knows this and has even less time. Whenever Cage screws up, out comes her gun. The visual music guiding these sequences is grimly comical: Bang! “Wake up, maggot!” Bang! “Maggot!” Bang! “Maggot!”

Being the woman in a Tom Cruise movie has always seemed thankless. She’ll almost never win. Rosamund Pike hit a new low in 2012’s Jack Reacher , playing a defense attorney so dumb that Cruise had to do all of her thinking. It’s fitting that one of the few women to really push back is named Blunt. Sure, she’s shown at least three times rising up, sweatily, lustily, from cobra pose. And I don’t like her in this warrior mode — graffiti on bus posters of Vrataski read “Full Metal Bitch” as if the kids thought she were Sigourney Weaver. It doesn’t feel as if Blunt wants to be here, but this is where the road of decent commercial parts takes you. So she keeps putting a gun to her costar’s head and making the most of it.

But Cruise doesn’t try to steamroll her. They become a comic unit — although he does get around to looking at her in that way, and all you hear is the clanging of pots and pans. No one wants to see these two do more than shoot and steer and impale stuff. He sells you the rest of it, though: the terror of operating one of those ExoSuits, the disorientation, the gradual exhilaration of mastering the time loop, turning from petulant Cocktail Tom to the Tom who can fire weapons while spinning around the rim of a trench. All it took was dying about 75 times, and each time being relieved to open his eyes and still be even more himself. There will be people annoyed that he keeps waking up at all. But there’s almost no one else who’d keep trying this hard to die on our behalf.

D eath hovers over The Fault in Our Stars . The entire movie hums with the harsh, chilly light of a hospital. It’s a romantic comedy about adolescent cancer patients, so the grim glow doesn’t feel like a strategy so much as a side effect. The first thing its 16-year-old heroine, Hazel Grace Lancaster (Shailene Woodley), says is, “This is the truth. Sorry.” That seems right for a film whose characters are shot so that they barely cast a shadow: There’s nowhere to hide. Hazel has stage-four lymphoma and an oxygen tube in her nose.  She conducts herself with the bitter poise of a Brontë character who adores being a Brontë character.

Her parents (Laura Dern, Sam Trammell) coax Hazel Grace into a support group. That’s where she meets Augustus Waters (Ansel Elgort), a long, bright-faced kid with amusing self-confidence. His cancer’s in remission, but he’s there for his friend Isaac (Nat Wolff), whose own cancer is on the verge of taking his second eye. Augustus slips a cigarette in his mouth and Hazel Grace assumes he’s mocking the matter at hand. But no, he says: The cigarette is a metaphor for what can’t kill him. They begin trading text messages. She makes him read her favorite novel, something awful-sounding called An Imperial Affliction . He says, “How would you like to go on a picnic with me?” It goes on from there.

Mom and dad dotingly watch as these two fall for each other, and a trace of pity is detectable in all their love. The stars are crossed, but doom isn’t what’s drawing Hazel Grace and Augustus to each other. It really feels like love, one defined by circumstances that set them apart from the majority of their peers. What a strange movie. A trip to Amsterdam leads to a kiss in Anne Frank’s attic that inspires applause from the surrounding visitors. The whole film is like that: appallingly romantic. I can’t recall anything this close to both an after-school special and a European art-house tragedy, in its flat, ugly style and emotional nakedness. It’s reminiscent of  Say Anything  … or, when the terrifically oddball Wolff’s around, the latter 30 minutes of Ferris Bueller ’ s Day Off . It’s not as competently made as either of those movies, and for too long it’s more posturing and glib.

But if I spent an hour rolling my eyes, the final 20 minutes were devoted to contemplating blowing my nose. The film was adapted by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber from John Green’s best seller, and was directed by Josh Boone. Green wrote the most inescapable book since the Harry Potter s. It’s covering people’s faces on the subway. It’s dog-eared on coffeeshop tables. It’s jutting out of book bags. For every 20 pages of pretentious back-patting prose, there’s a line of resonant simplicity like “I fell in love with the way you fall asleep.” It sits on the young adult shelf, but its mass appeal makes sense. It is, in its way, a rebellion novel: fuck this disease, fuck pity, fuck dying.

The movie picks up where Green leaves off: fuck filmmaking. The poor shotmaking and the too-close close-ups are a trial. At some point, we’re staring at a wall for five seconds before a character opens a door and stands in front of it.  And yet — and yet — there’s something about the performances that gets to you. It’s point-blank earnest. Dern and Trammell spend the movie looking like they’ve just donated kidneys to unicorns. They’re being more than they are acting. So are Woodley, Elgort, and Wolff. Woodley is like vintage Debra Winger: self-possession that refuses to fall to pieces.

It takes a while to get used to her bristling independence — sort of the way you had to come around to Ione Skye’s air-dried approach to intelligence in Say Anything … .   Elgort’s even better. In Divergent , he played Woodley’s brother. But this is the more believable relationship. He gives every line a sweetness. I didn’t remember him from Divergent right away and assumed that his artificial leg was real, that he was some kind of miracle discovery: a self-confident lug who could effortlessly embody besotted decency. There’s a moment when the breeziness powering the story goes away and medical reality takes over, and Elgort’s performance goes to a surprising new place.

This is acting (and moviemaking) that has almost nothing to do with conventional norms of “good.” It’s pure and true and just vividly there . The shock is that, eventually, there you are with them, wiping away the suds and snot.  

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Tom Cruise Fights For Eternity In The New 'Edge Of Tomorrow' Trailer

Warner Brothers just released the second trailer for the Tom Cruise futuristic time-traveling war film, "Edge of Tomorrow."

Much like the first trailer , we see Cruise's character  Lt. Col. Bill Cage reliving the same day over and over again.

The new trailer delves a bit more into Cage's repetitive lifestyle along with his relationship with the mysterious Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt) as she tries to turn him into Earth's greatest weapon.

"Edge of Tomorrow" is in theaters June 6.

Watch the trailer below:

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Here are a few takeaways from the new trailer:

Lt. Col. Bill Cage (Tom Cruise) doesn't know why he keeps dying then reliving battles with a futuristic alien race.

It's important that he finds out because it seems that the human race is losing.

Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt) tries to train him, but if he fails then they'll have to "start over."

However, repeating the war over and over again may be humanity's only hope.

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Teaser for the highly anticipated sci-fi thriller shows the Mission Impossible actor playing a fearless soldier trapped in a time loop following an alien invasion

• 17:04, 26 Mar 2014

The action-packed promo video for epic adventure movie, Edge of Tomorrow , has been released - and it shows Tom Cruise stuck in a time warp repeating his own death.

The film, out May 30, is set in a near future in which an alien race has attacked the Earth with a force so powerful, that no human military can defeat.

The Mission Impossible star plays Major William Cage who is thrown into what turns out to be a suicide mission, but, it doesn’t end there.

Cruise quickly finds himself stuck in a time loop, fighting and being killed over and over again, after he dies in the opening scenes.

Cage’s saviour is special forces warrior Rita Vrataski, played by Devil Wears Prada’s Emily Blunt , who teaches the Major a new skill that could possibly end the trap.

Edge of Tomorrow is directed by Doug Liman, the man behind The Bourne Identity, and is based on the acclaimed novel All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka.

Other cast members include Bill Paxton from Big Love , Robin Hood's Jonas Armstrong and Franz Drameh famously known from Attack the Block.

* Edge of Tomorrow will be released on May 30

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15 Best Time Loop Movies of All Time

Time loop movies are extremely interesting. They pose a very curious scenarios that often lead to confusing situations. As an audience, you enjoy that chaos and complexity when characters are caught in the middle of a never ending time loop where the day just keeps repeating itself. You end up wondering: What would you do if you got stuck in a loop, and starting to live the same day over an over again? Surely, it will one hell of a ride. Here is a list of top time loop movies ever. You can watch some of these best time loop movies on Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon Prime.

15. Before I Fall (2017)

A teenage girl, Samantha Kingston (Zoey Deutch) is involved in a fatal car crash, along with her friends on Cupid’s Day (February 12). But a day later she realizes that she is stuck in a time loop, reliving the day of her death again and again. Before I Fall is a well-acted adaptation of Lauren Oliver’s novel, exploring the sci-fi/time-loop genre with a fresh and distinctive perspective. It inspires how can one make their second chances count, and the story-telling is backed by a strong performance from emerging star, Zoey Deutch. This coming-of-age drama though gets derivative sometimes but is quite effective as well and thus it’s worth a watch.

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14. Blood Punch (2013)

Milton (Milo Cawthorne) runs from a rehab center with Skyler (Olivia Tennet) for a money making drug score. But when he is lured into an isolated cabin along with her psychotic boyfriend, he finds out that the trio is reliving the same day independently. Now, it seems like a love triangle gone badly, stories like you have watched a hundred times, but it isn’t.  Filled with exuberant twist and surprises, Blood Punch is an incredibly smart piece of cinematic art, unraveling the story in a conventional but exciting manner trapping the audience with the characters. Unexpectedly, this debut feature of director Madellaine Paxson come along out of nowhere to a successful mixture of mystery and horror blended with the concept of time-loop.

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13. ARQ (2016)

In a post-apocalyptic future, an engineer, Renton (Robbie Amell), faces a home invasion by three masked intruders. When he accidentally breaks his neck while escaping, he wakes up again, eventually finding out, that his invention has caused the time to loop, and the day is repeating itself. He must protect his invention, ARQ, that could deliver unlimited energy and time and could end the wars that have consumed the world.

‘ARQ’ is a low-budget venture of director Tony Elliott (who directed episodes of ‘Orphan Black’) which, makes an impressive use of its limited resources. Backed by Amell’s fairly-acted performance, this tricky sci-fi thriller does a great job in adding many folds and twists in the story-line and then enclosing all of them at the climax. The movie, despite the low budget, remains captivating throughout and does not distract at all. An enjoyable viewing, ‘ARQ’ is recommended on all accounts.

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12. Happy Death Day (2017)

While going to a party on her birthday, Tree (Jessica Rothe), a spoiled brat, is lured into a tunnel and murdered by a mysterious masked man. Upon her death, she wakes up in a classmate, Carter’s (Israel Broussard) room. When she has killed again the next day, she realizes she is reliving her “death day” again and again and sets out to find the killer.

A slasher/horror film, ‘Happy Death Day’, to be honest, is not a serious, horrifying and violent movie, which is the best thing about it. It’s rather more of a fun experience which I would definitely vouch for. No, out of the world entity or gruesome murders, still, “Happy Death Day is an interesting story, that connects all its sub-plots in a way, I’d describe as a  really interesting and enjoyable watch. With a slight romantic touch, the movie is a must-watch entertainer, who critics called ” a modern-day mixture of ‘Groundhog Day’ and ‘Scream’.”

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11. 12:01 (1993)

A jaded employee, when involved in an electric shock accident, is surprisingly stuck in a time loop, that forces him to relive his worst day over and over. Released in the same year as ‘Groundhog Day’ (which I’ll later come to), ’12:01′ was highly overshadowed despite having an exciting storyline. A sci-fi romantic drama, ’12:01′ is worth remembering, whenever the sub-genre of time-loop is in the discussion. A well-written screenplay brought to life by a worthy performance by Jonathan Silverman, ’12:01′ is something you will be willing to watch again sometime after you’ve watched it once.

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10. Haunter (2013)

A teenage girl (Abigail Breslin), is stuck in a time loop with her family since the day they all were murdered in 1985, the fact that only she realizes. But, when connected to another girl living in present times, she seeks her help to find the murderer and end the loop once and for all

The concept of time-loop, adjunct with a supernatural horror thriller movie, is what makes ‘Haunter’ unique in its own way. Though it has an interesting plot, the movie, however, fails to scare or keep the interest up until the end. But, at last, despite”not so good” acting and direction, it’s a worth watch as it gets you scratching and crackling your heads to figure out what’s going on. My advice- you won’t be disappointed.

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9. Repeaters (2010)

A trio trying to get rid of their addiction at a rehab center is stuck in a time-loop after a storm hits them in the middle of the night. As the day repeats itself, they try to make amends in their life, but soon everything starts going sideways. Although a critical failure, ‘Repeaters’, despite not having a star cast, doesn’t fail to create a buzz in your head with its gritty, mind-bending plot. A story of the redemption of three youths, ‘Repeaters’, I’d say is good enough to get the job done.

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8. Mine Games (2012)

Seven friends, staying at a remote cabin, discover an abandoned mine nearby and decides to explore it. The tide turns against them when they find something really strange and incomprehensible is haunting them down there, “Themselves”. For the year 2012, another cabin in a woods movie along with a bunch of young holidaymakers stuck in some horrific abandoned facility was not at all unique or new. So, here we throw originality out the window; thus, the film bombed on a critical measure, big time. The plot details are kind of inspired by various movies of this genre (a few are on the list), so it becomes predictable after a point.

But, despite a very low production budget, ‘Mine Games’ succeed in creating a sense of panic and build up the mystery for most of its running time. My suggestion, give it a try before any of the movies on the list, you might as well enjoy it.

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7. Primer (2004)

A story of two friends, who accidentally invent the machine that enables them to time travel, ‘Primer’, is the most mind-fucked movie ever made. Primer isn’t a traditional movie experience, but something that you might not have ever seen before. A completely confusing storyline, which when finally unfolds by the end, you are left more confused than when you started. Written, Directed and Produced by Shane Carruth, ‘Primer’ is little gem of a movie.  You might have to watch it more than twice to get full grasp of what is actually going on. As Esquire magazine quotes, “anybody who claims he fully understands what’s going on in Primer after seeing it just once is either a savant or a liar.”

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6. Triangle (2009)

Jess (Melissa George), a single mother, goes on a boating trip with some friends. When they are forced to abandon their boat due to a storm, they board a derelict ocean liner in order to get to safety. And…..(Plot details of this one has to be kept a secret)

The psychological-horror feature is a “repeatedly” twisting and terrifying story that is very engaging in somewhat a thrilling sort of way. This is a must-watch for any movie-buff, not only because of its amazing story-line and the way it unfolds; but also for the fearless and incredible performance by Melissa George. It’s very confusing and puzzling, whether how one should talk about the movie without giving away anything, but certainly, this is worth a huge applaud.

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5. Source Code (2011)

U.S. Army Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal  is sent into past within a computed reality again and again in order to stop a bomber who seeks to kill hundreds. Marketed action thriller, ‘Source Code’ is actually an exciting and impressive cinematic work in the science-fiction genre, which unfolds in a fairly intellectual way; all thanks to director Duncan Jones, who previously directed ‘Moon’ (2009). Co-starring Michelle Monaghan, ‘Source Code’ is an enthralling mind game, which will give you no room to blink.

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4. Timecrimes (2007)

Many would argue why “Timecrimes’ is No. 4 on the list, while ‘Triangle’ and ‘Source Code’ lies behind this. For ones who haven’t watched this film, I suggest, you drop any season or movie you’re watching and give this a try. A Spanish-language sci-fi thriller from director Nacho Vigalondo (who later directed ‘Colossal’ in 2016),  ‘ Los Cronocrímenes’ is the story of Hector, a man trying to evade a killer by traveling back in time. ‘Timecrimes’ is one of the “not made in Hollywood” movies that proves there’s no need for a star cast to get the job done. A strong competitor to Shane Carruth’s ‘Primer’, this Spanish thriller is full of paradoxes and mysteries that you’d never be able to predict where the story will go, right up until the end.

With an 88% rating at review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, ‘Timecrimes’ is highly recommended, and it will surely leave you amazed, despite the low budget on special effects and overall production. You’d want to download subtitles for watching this though…

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3. Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

Firstly, it’s a Tom Cruise movie, and then it stars him doing what he does best; action and kill. Set in future, where Earth faces an alien invasion, Major William Cage (Cruise), a PR Officer with no combat experience, is forced to battle in a landing operation against the enemy. However, when Cage dies on the battlefield, he is sent back in time to the day preceding the battle, trapping him into a time loop. He then teams up with S.F. Officer Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt) and learns combat skills while finding a way to stop the extra-terrestrial threat.

What this movie specifically proves is that Cruise has still got it in him. The film’s time reset concept is unique and different from other movies of this genre. It is an enticing thriller, featuring a really well-executed direction by Doug Liman and cleverly crafted screenplay along with power-packed performances by lead actors Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt as well as Bill Paxton and Brendon Gleeson. Watch Cruise dying again and again and again and pull off the script, thus saving the day.

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2. Predestination (2014)

In a world where a bureau uses time travel to stop crime, a cop tries to catch (and kill) a notorious terrorist who goes by the name “fizzle bomber”. There aren’t enough words, reviews, and opinions that can describe the greatness of ‘Predestination’. There are instances where great movies aren’t given the deserving recognition and ‘Predestination’ is one of them. The movie takes the turns in the most unexpected ways and that too till the very last scene. Starring Ethan Hawke in his one of the finest performances, the more admirable role was of Sarah Snook, who steals the show in many of the major sequences.

A classic sci-fi, backed by a creative directorial work and a wonderfully written screenplay. Without going into plot details, I strongly recommend watching this amazing feature ASAP if you haven’t. And if you already have, you know it’s a worth watch again.

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1. Groundhog Day (1993)

It’s an arguable question that, why ‘Groundhog Day’ lies at the No. 1 spot on this list? One of the very first movies based on this concept, ‘Groundhog Day’ revolves around Phil Conners (Bill Murray), an arrogant weather reporter, who is forced to relive the same day over an over, trapping him in a place he hates for the entirety.

‘Groundhog Day’ is an inspirational tale of a man, caught in a time loop, trying to re-examine his life and changing himself into a better being. Bill Murray delivers a fine performance as the protagonist and turns Phil Conners into a role model for any viewer. What makes this film unique is it’s smooth and light story-telling. There are no action sequences, thrill, and mystery, but only a man who lives the same day over and over, trying to make amends daily as he has all the time in the world. ‘Groundhog Day’, throughout the years, has become a basis of comparison for all time-loop movies, which are praised to relive the concept which this film established years ago. For anyone who is willing to try a simple and sober movie and get excited at the same time, this is the film for them.

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