Groundhog Day meets Aliens is possibly the best one-line premise of a movie ever. Edge Of Tomorrow does a damn fine job of living up to that, using the simple reset the day premise to present some of the most inventive and logical sci-fi scenes of the year. The ability to see Tom Cruise's William Cage go from pansyish reporter to badass fighter by being killed over and over is the film's biggest strength, and it knows it. Which makes it perplexing that half-way through it gets rid of the concept. Groundhog Day ends when Bill Murray gets out of his eternal time loop, understand the most interesting part of the film is over. Edge Of Tomorrow likewise has a moment where Cruise stops going back to the start, but in this case it's only two-thirds of the way through. And the moment Cage loses his ability to reset the day the film goes from being entertainingly fun to actively bad. It's ironic that a film that gained genuine tension from being able to kill its hero over and over actually loses it when death is a real threat. Suddenly Cage become Hobbit dwarf-level invincible and thus you get the typical video game boss ending where the hero will survive anything because the plot dictates he has to. Only here it's worse because you know the film can do it better.
