It’s all science fiction this week at Daily Stream, ahead of a Flick Filosopher announcement. Let’s start with one of the great sci-fi films of the 21st century, and the greatest videogame movie ever made (even though it’s not based on a videogame). In 2014’s Edge of Tomorrow, Tom Cruise’s cowardly soldier is stuck in a time loop, reliving — and re-dying — the same day over and over again, fighting Earth-invading aliens, until he can figure out to survive it… and maybe save the world. With every reboot, he “plays” the same battle multiple times, getting better at using the suit of powered armor and weapons of the human soldiers and accumulating the knowledge that helps him get a little further each time. (Emily Blunt as his fellow soldier, who had this same power and lost it, is absolutely badass in a way we hadn’t seen from her before.) Witty and clever, this is character-driven science-fiction wonderfulness, full of suspense, surprise, tension, and an unexpected poignancy. (Read my 2014 review.)
US: stream on Max (via Prime); rent/buy on Prime and Apple TV
UK: stream on Prime and Netflix; rent/buy on Prime and Apple TV
See Edge of Tomorrow at Letterboxd for more viewing options.
