jcbinok

This movie, I believe, is based on a Japanese book called, "All You Need Is Kill". We read it in my book club. The movie is not set in Japan, obviously, but it does follow the same general outline of the book: a soldier keeps repeating the same day over and over due to a time warp created by aliens.

This movie kept my attention well enough to watch it in one go. That's pretty rare for me. Usually, I need two or three sittings to get thru a film.

I'm not saying this is the world's greatest movie. Some flaws are: superhuman ability of Cruise and Blunt not to get severely injured falling and smashing thru things at high speed; Lots of night scenes toward the end, which muddy the visuals; comically bad use of jittery hand-held camera during one scene, indoors - not even a battle sequence; Some eye-roll moments of convenience like when Cruise and Blunt immediately find each other after evacuating from a helicopter crash.... But hey, it's a popcorn flick about aliens, so I won't judge the plot contrivances too harshly. That said, the book did a better job creating chemistry between the male and female leads. The author gave more backstory about her childhood, for example. I remember being invested in her character to a deeper degree in the book.