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" Director: Doug Liman; Screenwriters: Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth; Starring: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Brendan Gleeson, Bill Paxton; Running time: 113 mins; Certificate: 12A      Last year Tom Cruise survived Oblivion, this year he&amp;#039;s back on top form in Edge of Tomorrow, a much more elegant and exhilarating sci-fi trip from director Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity). Cruise plays Major William Cage, the US military&amp;#039;s PR man who gets caught in a time loop as the world is overrun by hostile aliens - dubbed &amp;#039;the mimics&amp;#039; - and finds himself forced to relive the same day over and over again. Fortunately, Emily Blunt is around to keep him company.  Unfortunately, it happens to be D-Day (a futuristic version of it) when British and American forces are deployed on the beaches of France on what is, essentially, a suicide mission. The idea of history repeating itself is already writ large here, but what isn&amp;#039;t so familiar is the casting of Tom Cruise as a coward. Within the first ten minutes, he&amp;#039;s breaking into one of his trademark Cruise sprints - jaw firmly clenched - except that he&amp;#039;s running away from the fight. He can&amp;#039;t escape his destiny, though. After all, saving the world is what Tom Cruise does (when Will Smith isn&amp;#039;t available). Liman hits us in the face with a crash, bang, walloping 3D portrayal of futuristic war that begins with J-Squad (Cage wrongly counted among their number) being dropped behind enemy lines from a burning aircraft. The guys and gals are kitted out in mechanical armour, and amid the frenetic shoot-out on the beach Liman also mines some gentle slapstick humour; having Cruise stumble about among the dunes likes he&amp;#039;s pooped in his iron pants. And judging by the look on his face, he probably has. Cage&amp;#039;s number is up almost immediately as giant octopus-ish aliens come at him fast, tentacles lashing about like broken cables. Next thing, he opens his eyes and he&amp;#039;s back at base, about to be deployed to do it all over again. Source Code is the obvious reference point, but there&amp;#039;s a touch of Groundhog Day, too, not only in the quantum mechanics of the story, but in the tongue-in-cheek tone and cleverly constructed evolution of Cage as - through trial and error - he learns how to elicit a different reaction from people. Initially, Blunt is a foreboding &amp;quot;full metal bitch&amp;quot; as Sgt Rita Vrataski, although not fully convincing as the most decorated soldier in the British Army. She&amp;#039;s a fantasy figure, a kind of hi-tech dominatrix who Cage has to get on-side again and again, because only she understands what is happening to him and what they have to do to make it stop.  Again, Liman finds humour in a dark situation, because it&amp;#039;s down to Rita to kill Cage and reset the action every time they hit a dead end in their search for the &amp;#039;Omega&amp;#039; (the mimics&amp;#039; central power source) and Blunt is only more charming with each pull of the trigger. The science may be gobbledegook and there are always gaps in time-travel logic, but Liman has a tight grasp on the story he is telling. He could get stuck in a groove, but instead he keeps powering forward, finding countless new routes through the day and using the device to underline moments of no return - like when Cage realises he is not immortal. Inevitably, Vrataski&amp;#039;s life becomes more important to Cage than his own and, even later on, he must weigh that up too against the greater good. The pressure is piled higher on his shoulders each time he wakes up and those brief pauses for reflection brilliantly punctuate the copious, breath-taking scenes of combat. This is a sure-fire hit. Congratulations, Tom Cruise. You&amp;#039;ve done it again.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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