“Cruise’s self-deprecation plays well, a good thing in that he’s really too old for this role, while Blunt is toned, burnished and physically refurbished into a blunt,” he concludes.įor the New York Times, Manohla Dargis focuses on Cruise’s comic skills, “He’s funny! And watching him glide through the opening of Edge of Tomorrow - a suggestion of Jerry Maguire edging his smile - it’s hard not to think, ‘Where has this guy been?’ “Unfortunately, the final stretch becomes dramatically unconvincing and visually murky.” However, McCarthy says “the effects are exciting, convincing and gritty,” and adds that “supporting-role casting decisions seem to have been based more on humor than brawn, with Brendan Gleeson and especially Bill Paxton as the troop leader contributing a healthy amount of levity for this sort of fare. “Although 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,” he goes on to say. The Hollywood Reporter‘s film critic Todd McCarthy describes the sci-fi action film as “RoboGroundhogDay,” explaining that there are questions marks hovering over “the extent to which audiences will tire of the let’s-play-it-over-again storyline.” Read what the critics are saying about Edge of Tomorrow: VIDEO: ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ NY Premiere: Director Doug Liman Talks Video Game-Like Nature of Movie Edge is already doing particularly well in Asia and the movie will be playing in more than 60 markets this weekend, including key players China, Australia, Mexico and Russia. is counting on the movie doing exceptional business overseas, where Cruise remains a far bigger star than in the U.S. Opening against The Fault in Our Stars, Fox 2000’s adaption of the hit YA novel, Edge of Tomorrow is expected to open in the $25 million range in North America. Female warrior Rita Vrataski, played by Blunt, is a strong juxtaposition to Cage, who 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.
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