So, i just watched the BluRay of Edge of Tomorrow - Live Die Repeat, so in the spirit of "Sunshine & Happiness", I'd like to say what I thought.
First off the movie was good, acting was good, special effects were good, tand he pace and over all narrative were well done...but.
Ugg, I really think the premise of the story was poor and had too many holes. Like....
- If the Omega knows that humans can gain it's own time-travelling (bio/tech?) power by being exposed to Alpha blood (and it knows because it happened before), why would the Omega still send Alphas on the frontline of important battles? Sure, these Mimics can slaughter us, but we can also slaughter them with all those bombs and missiles...wouldn't this be happening all the time?
- How is Cruise gaining military prowess in a day. I don't care if you know what will happend, you ability to fight like that is muscle memory, real muscles, real synopses firing. Cruise's character should know what will happen, but his body is the same...he might be fit...but physical fitness is not a body tuned for battle, it is not basal ganglia connections to make those super-hero moves.
- Why is the ground forces General Dumbo-Ass so eager to send Tom Cruise in the war zone anyway? Would it not have been better to send any other dude, cruise is not the right tool for the job...that general knows it. So why? Later why does General Dumb-Ass, give Rita and Cruise the "mind-link" equipment for even a second? Why let Cruise walk out when he pretty much has told to the general that he has repeated this past two days...500 times...1000 times? Also, the idea was to capture Cage and Rita to do 'medical tests' on them...that means the General believes they DO HAVE POWERS...so why underestimate them if you wanted to cut them open?
- Why was the Mimic Omega so lightly defended? It knew to send a memory to Cage to trick him into going to Germany, just as it tricked Rita teh first time too, but when that fails why not bring some heavy defense units to defend yourself? The Mimic Omega Brain knows something is up, but does not even put much effort into it own defense?
Okay, tons more issues but those are gig ones for me..
Let's go all the way back to the beginning: The Mimic Omega has 'lived/foreseen" that beach landing before, to be ready is has seen the landing succeed too well in one past. That is why Omega is ready that first day, it knew what woudl happen..well, until Cage blows up an Alpha. But here is the problem the first time Cage dies everything after that the Mimics should have NO KNOWLEDGE of...that means T-Minus 5 minutes after that landing all the Mimic grunts and all the Mimic Alphas should fight 1,000x worse because they lack foreknowledge. The very premise of the movies is that Mimics fight so well because "they know" ahead of time what will happen. Once Cage takes that power, that is over, even if they are faster we have strength in depth just by our numbers.
If the above is correct, which the rules of the story seem to say it is, then to WIN all Cruise has to do is hide. For humans to win all Tom Cruise's character needs to do is not die in the next few years. As long as cruise is alive the Mimics have lost their most precious power which the movies itself says is their real strength. All humanity needs to do is carpet bomb the Mimics until all the low-end mimic soldiers and alphas are dead, right? Heck, Cage doesn't even need to tell anyone that...that is the human strategy already, so he can sit back and just let that happen. Cage hides, humans get pasted on the beach; but after that the Mimics are on their own with zero prescient knowledge of the future (their only real super weapon) to guide them.
I enjoyed the movie, but there are holes in the concept you could drive a truck through. Sunshine and happiness to you all who want to respond....Sunshine and Happiness.
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