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Carter Glace writes that there have been some decent video game movies, like 'Prince of Persia' or one of the 'Resident Evil' films but plenty of bad ones too just remember 'Super Mario Bros'. But Doug Liman's 'Edge of Tomorrow' shows how to take one of video games' most tried and true mechanics and use it to make an excellent and utterly creative film. In the film Tom Cruise plays a PR officer named Cage who, blessed with the power of infinite lives, has to continually progress through the day while figuring out how to win the battle and the war kind of a cross between 'Groundhog Day' and 'Starship Troopers.'
"The use of the words "infinite lives" is no accident," writes Glace. The premise of the film comes from a Japanese graphic novel titled 'All You Need Is Kill', but it is steeped in the classic video game lore: restarting the game over and over until you are prepared for every conceivable threat. This is a fact director Liman openly celebrates and it works here on countless levels. Cruise's efforts to train are all chronicled through an efficient, fun and fluid montage that serves as an excellent progression through the "levels," while cutting out the more mundane, frustrating repetition it "stands as an incredibly creative, intelligent piece of sci-fi filmmaking." "Taking inspiration from an underutilized resource, Cruise has made an incredible return to form," concludes Glace. "Unfortunately, 'Edge of Tomorrow' is already a box-office dud, but I implore you to support this excellent film."
(Score: 2) by Darth Turbogeek on Monday June 16 2014, @10:47AM
Generally to be considered "not a dud", a movie needs to be profitable on it's US box office run. Which reading from boxofficemojo.com, Edge of Tomorrow really isnt doing anything better than "Maybe make 100 million" and that's unlikely. 28 million for a major movie on the opening weekend (again, this is USA domestic market only) isnt good, you need to be closer to 50 million. So it will be well short of the production budget - even if the International box office is pretty good, that's not the one that gets examined by bad journalists. I'd guess 350-400million Intl, then DVD sales etc...... really, it'll make back a few good bucks (Hollywood accounting aside) but that doesnt make for a good headline and it's not something someone typing words for their employer will care to explain.
It's not right and it's definantly not accurate but that's how too many idiots in the media choose to write shit.
From what I've read, Edge of Tomorrow does seem like a very good movie and would suit the Soylent crowd. But.... yeah the star is Tom Cruise and there's the whole Scientolgy cheerleader crap about him. I think if it was say Chris Hemsworth as the leading man, it'll do much better.