News By Russell Holly Dec. 11, 2013 5:13 pm
How many sci-fi themes can you stick Tom Cruise in during a two-and-a-half-minute trailer? One can only assume that the purpose of the trailer for Edge of Tomorrow was to try and answer that question. Fortunately, it also looks like a fun ride.
Hollywood seems to be matching the video game industry for sticking future people in robot suits and high-tech vehicles recently, and so far there’s been very little wrong with that. Usually the robot machines tend to take center focus in whatever is going on, or at the very least act as a central plot device. Professional future man Tom Cruise has found himself in the middle of a war that he knows is going to end poorly, and for some reason can’t seem to stop reliving that failure over and over again. The benefit to this is that he remembers how it fails each time, and he’s not alone in a quest for how to succeed against such insurmountable odds.
Based on Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s All You Need is Kill, the film puts you in a future world where military recruits and criminals are shoved into smart suits of armor called Jackets and sent out to fight in an ongoing war. The suit appears to be doing most of the fighting for you, and the main character seems to have absolutely no idea what he’s doing. When everything goes wrong, Cruise wakes back up on the day he was first assigned a Jacket, and the cycle repeats itself. When he finally figures out he’s not alone, Cruise gets to go from literally just a warm body on the battlefield to super soldier in order to save the world.
Everything about this movie looks like it was mean to let you shut your brain off for two hours and watch the impressive special effects dance across the screen, but All You Need is Kill is a critically acclaimed novel in Japan, so it is possible that the story survived and this will be one of the best movies of 2014. We’ll find out for sure in March when it hits theaters, but for now, you can watch the trailer a second time and count how many weapons Tom Cruise had strapped to his Jacket during the war scenes.
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Hollywood seems to be matching the video game industry for sticking future people in robot suits and high-tech vehicles recently, and so far there’s been very little wrong with that. Usually the robot machines tend to take center focus in whatever is going on, or at the very least act as a central plot device. Professional future man Tom Cruise has found himself in the middle of a war that he knows is going to end poorly, and for some reason can’t seem to stop reliving that failure over and over again. The benefit to this is that he remembers how it fails each time, and he’s not alone in a quest for how to succeed against such insurmountable odds.
Based on Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s All You Need is Kill, the film puts you in a future world where military recruits and criminals are shoved into smart suits of armor called Jackets and sent out to fight in an ongoing war. The suit appears to be doing most of the fighting for you, and the main character seems to have absolutely no idea what he’s doing. When everything goes wrong, Cruise wakes back up on the day he was first assigned a Jacket, and the cycle repeats itself. When he finally figures out he’s not alone, Cruise gets to go from literally just a warm body on the battlefield to super soldier in order to save the world.
Everything about this movie looks like it was mean to let you shut your brain off for two hours and watch the impressive special effects dance across the screen, but All You Need is Kill is a critically acclaimed novel in Japan, so it is possible that the story survived and this will be one of the best movies of 2014. We’ll find out for sure in March when it hits theaters, but for now, you can watch the trailer a second time and count how many weapons Tom Cruise had strapped to his Jacket during the war scenes.
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