Tom Cruise's career in recent years has been heavily marked by the character of Ethan Hunt, coming to give the feeling that his goal was to make it as difficult as possible with each new installment of the 'Mission Impossible franchise. Luckily, in the past decade, he had time to participate in more films, 'At the Edge of Tomorrow' the most notable.
Cruise gives life in 'Edge of Tomorrow' to Cage, an officer who has never been on the battlefield who dies in what was supposed to be a suicide mission, but that leads him to start a loop that ends every time he is killed again. From there, he intelligently resorted to time travel to shape one of the best blockbusters of recent years.
A first-class adventure
Halfway between 'Stuck in Time' and the video game narrative, the script for 'Edge of Tomorrow' written by Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth, and John-Henry Butterworth is one of the film's strong points. It indeed loses some strength in its final act, the least accomplished of the show, but until then it is a lesson on how to hook the viewer, plan a journey of its characters with ingenuity and build the story in such a way that there are no stops unnecessary.
To cultivate his virtues, the work of director Doug Liman helps his own, who knows how to maintain the sensation of danger without sacrificing some comic details that in more than one situation help to decrease the situation. In addition, visually it is a film that looks wonderful without letting that cannibalize what it is telling and betting on an efficient simplicity so that the viewer never gets lost.
As expected, the film is marked by the presence of Cruise, one of the last great Hollywood stars, who here offers a different vision than usual, since Cage's evolution is designed to stop him from being a coward. and he becomes a hero, so in the end, he does look more like his usual image but he really earns that change and the actor reflects it wonderfully.
To achieve it, an impressive Emily Blunt who exudes strength and initiative on all four sides helps a lot. It's a role that convinces you that she could have made a believable action hero but then she chose not to take her career in that direction. In addition, she shares incredible chemistry with Cruise, because if the movie was already very good before it appeared, then it grows even more thanks to the actress.
The film did well at the box office but it cannot be said that it was a success either, since it had a worldwide income of 370 million dollars against a budget of 178 million. More was expected of her, but that did not prevent talk of a sequel that many of us are still waiting for soon.
