'It opened everything up and created an opportunity to explore what was interesting about Tom Cruise's character and to witness, day after day of the same day, what takes Cage to the brink. 'The concept of this really unique time loop hooked me in,' he says. In the film, Tom Cruise plays Major William Cage, a military PR man who's never been to the front line but who, thanks to his ill-advised threat to a four-star general, ends up trapped in an alien-induced time loop, fighting for his life…and death.ĭirector Doug Liman was drawn to the project by the extreme and extremely unusual circumstances in which Cage finds himself.

Countless men and women will fight and all will be lost to these 'Mimics,' unless the United Defense Force's least likely recruit can succeed in employing a most implausible strategy: Live. In 'Edge of Tomorrow,' the world is at war with an indefatigable alien force no army, let alone individual, can conquer, and the greatest battle is still to come. And, as Cage and Rita take the fight to the aliens, each repeated encounter gets them one step closer to defeating the enemy.Ĭage: What I'm about to tell you sounds crazy, but you have to listen to me. Killed within minutes, Cage now finds himself inexplicably thrown into a time loop'forcing him to live out the same brutal combat over and over, fighting and dying again…and again.īut with each battle, Cage becomes able to engage the adversaries with increasing skill, alongside Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski (Blunt). Major William Cage (Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously dropped into what amounts to a suicide mission. Synopsis: The epic action of 'Edge of Tomorrow' unfolds in a near future in which an alien race has hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault, unbeatable by any military unit in the world. Cast: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton

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