Edge of Tomorrow is a 2014 American military science fiction film starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. Doug Limandirected the film based on a screenplay adapted from the Japanese light novel All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. Rights to the novel were bought in late 2009, and a spec script was sold to the American studio Warner Bros. Pictures for production. The studio co-produced the film with the Australian production company Village Roadshow. Filming began in late 2012 and took place mainly at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden outside London.Trafalgar Square in London was also a filming location for some scenes.
The film was released in theaters in 28 territories, including the United Kingdom, Brazil, Germany, Spain, and Indonesia, on the weekend of May 30, 2014. 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 received largely positive reviews from critics. As of June 28, 2014, the film has grossed $318.7 million worldwide.
Plot
A race of aliens called Mimics have taken over continental Europe. Major William Cage (Tom Cruise), a member of the NATO-led United Defense Forces (UDF), is summoned to London to meet with General Brigham (Brendan Gleeson). Brigham states the UDF's intention to launch Operation Downfall against the Mimics. When he orders Cage to cover combat on the beaches of France, Cage objects and tries to extort the General, for which he is arrested and knocked out. He awakens in handcuffs at a forward operating base at Heathrow Airport. Cage meets Master Sergeant Farell (Bill Paxton) and a squad of rejects known as J Squad. Brigham has sent a note to Farell, claiming that Cage is actually aprivate and a deserter who will falsely claim to be an officer. Farrell assigns Cage to J Squad.
Cage is dropped in with the first wave, unaware that the Mimics have anticipated the invasion. Cage is attacked by an unusually large "Alpha" Mimic and uses a Claymore mine to destroy it. The Mimic's blood douses him just as the mine explodes, and Cage wakes at Heathrow the previous morning. Realizing he now knows the outcome of the operation, Cage unsuccessfully tries to convince his squad mates that the invasion will fail and everyone will die. Each time he dies, he wakes up the previous morning. In one such loop he saves Sergeant Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt), a famous soldier known as the "Angel of Verdun", in reference to the battle at Verdun where Vrataski slew hundreds of Mimics. She recognizes Cage's ability to anticipate events and tells him to locate her when he "wakes up".
Cage finds Vrataski and explains that they know each other from the future invasion. Vrataski confides in Cage that she too possessed the ability to reset, which allowed her to kill hundreds of Mimics at Verdun, but lost it after receiving a blood transfusion. Vrataski takes Cage to see Dr. Carter (Noah Taylor), a former government scientist and expert in Mimic biology. The doctor explains to Cage the time-loop situation, saying that the Mimics possessed the ability to reset time whenever an Alpha was killed, and by being covered in an Alpha's blood during the invasion, Cage had inherited the ability. Vrataski tells Cage that he will begin to experience "visions" of the alien's hive mind called the Omega. Cage eventually sees the Omega in a Bavarian Alps dam. Through training with Vrataski, Cage's combat proficiency increases.
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