![]() ![]() If the Omega is so smart, can’t it rewind the results too for a better outcome? Unfortunately, the final stretch becomes dramatically unconvincing and visually murky, as the valiant duo follow the scent of the Omega to its unlikely hideout under the glass pyramid at the Louvre, where a seriously underwhelming and downright odd final reckoning takes place. Vrataski has determined that the only way to win the war is to destroy the Omega, so she and Cage embark upon a rigorous training program, the fruits of which will, as they like to say in movies like this, determine the fate of the planet.Īlthough the humor helps, the Groundhog Day-like repetition gets tedious it makes you feel more like a hamster than a groundhog - or rather a hamster’s wheel, going round and round, over and over again. ![]() More crucially still, Cage catches a glimpse of the Omega, the elusive brain behind the mimics. The process repeats so often that it becomes a time loop that pushes him further and further into the battle, enabling him to do a bit better each time. He keeps getting killed, but then, thanks to a playing-God-type technological breakthrough, he wakes up on the same morning ready to undertake the same mission again. The interplay between her and the inept Cage, as well as the other half-dozen members of J Squad, is moderately amusing at first. She’s Rita Vrataski ( Emily Blunt), the Achilles of the UDF, the Audie Murphy of the beach, the Joan of Arc who inspires everyone else to fight harder and better. One warrior doesn’t wear a helmet, ostensibly because she bravely shuns them but perhaps also because she looks so much better without one. VIDEO: ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ Trailer: Like ‘Groundhog Day’ With Aliens and Pain For their part, the soldiers are so heavily armed and armored that they resemble half-men, half-machines they’re like robo-grunts, clomping around in what look like giant ski boots and surrounded by exoskeleton machine-gun arms. They can be stopped, but only with great difficulty, and it’s hard to see where they are, much less judge when and from what direction they will strike. “I’m not a soldier,” he protests, and promptly proves it by being offed within moments of chuting down into a battle that is way beyond anything Private Ryan ever faced.Ĭreated specifically to kill, the mimics snap, swirl, dart, lunge, whip and assault like an octopus on speed. It’s impossible to imagine that the addition of the cowardly Cage, who’s been demoted to private, will alter the UDF’s fortunes in any way. Despite the considerable manpower and heavy hardware the UDF throws at the enemy, the Normandy beaches are littered with human detritus. The mimics have taken over even more European territory than the Nazis did and are on the verge of sacking the U.K., a fate the allied United Defense Force is trying to avoid with the self-explanatory D-Day 2.0.Įxcept it’s not going well. The general gets to spout such fresh lines as, “All of humanity is at stake,” which is the case this time because of something called “the mimic scourge,” an invasion of ferocious metallic spidery critters with way too many tendrils that whip around like crazy and pierce you like javelins. PHOTOS: 35 of 2014’s Most Anticipated Movies, From ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ to ‘Mockingjay’ ![]()
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