[YMS]: Edge of Tomorrow is not
as good as people say it is. Everybodyâs treating it like
some hidden gem masterpiece that deserved so much
more money than it got, but to me my praise stops
at, âEh, it was alright.â I mean, I wouldnât call it a bad
movie, but parts of it are really... dumb. And before everybody loses
their shit let me just say that there are parts
of it that I really love. Like other reviews Iâve done in
the past, Iâm not saying this movie sucks, itâs just above
average instead of spectacular. Some of these points hold more
weight than others, but the only order Iâm going to be putting
them in is chronologically. So letâs just start at the beginning. So the movie opens up with
a news footage montage. HEY WHY DOES GERMANY LOOK
SO MUCH LIKE RUSSIA??? Now although this is done
better than the average news-footage-montage-Hollywood
-blockbuster-action-movie intro, it would be nice to feel as though thereâs
some other way to relay information to audience members at the beginning of
a Hollywood blockbuster action movie. Kind of beating a dead horse there. Still, like I said, credit where credit
is due, this intro is done slightly better than a lot of other intros
that are nearly identical to it. Rather than just informing us of the
political climate in the storyâs universe, weâre able to gather information about
specific characters that appear in the film. We learn that Rita Vrataski is being
held up as the Angel of Verdun; [Cruise]: âŚwas able to kill hundreds of
Mimics on only her first day in combat. [YMS]: After having seen the
film, we can infer that it was on that day that she got
her time travel powers. We also get to see Tom
Cruiseâs role in the military. So even though they chose an embarrassingly
overdone way to deliver this information, Iâm glad that the information that we got out of
it was at least important towards the story. Weâre then informed through standard
action movie font that weâre in London, before we see our main
character waking up in a helicopter. The helicopter lands, and
as soon as he exits we are informed again that
he is, in fact, in London. [Welcome to London Lady]:
Welcome to London, Major! [YMS]: You know, just because itâs the standard
in these types of movies to inform the audience members where they are on
the globe using that exact same font, it doesnât mean that you should do it,
especially if a character is going to mention the location within a
minute of using the title anyway. When I watch a film, I like to
be immersed in its universe. So considering those
titles do not exist in the filmâs universe, you should probably
only use them when absolutely necessary. Obviously this isnât one of my main points
against the film, as I am just going through these chronologically, but it is an issue
that to me is at least worth mentioning. So this general starts telling Tom
Cruise about Operation Downfall: [General]: A lot of good
soldiers are going to die tomorrow, Major. When
the smoke clears and the body bags start coming home people tend to
look for someone to blame, someone like me. [YMS]: So because he doesnât want to
be blamed for these deaths, he tells Tom Cruise that he needs to go film
Operation Downfall in the first wave. Tom Cruise is like, no
thanks I donât want to die. And the general is like, [General]: Itâs not an offer
Major, itâs an order. [YMS]: So Tom Cruise realizes
heâs not getting through to him and out of desperation
he tries to blackmail him. Which almost seems to work until: [General]: Arrest this man. [YMS]: Awww, shit. He then wakes up and finds out
he is not where he wants to be. He explains that heâs
an American officer and asks to use a phone to
sort out this mistake. But it looks like that general from
before has indeed fucked him over. [Sergeant]: It says here you were
caught impersonating an officer. It says here youâd
likely try to make an outside call, even compromise
the security of this operation, anything to get
out of combat duty tomorrow. [YMS]: He then gets introduced to J-Squad,
and I personally love this scene. Now I have no idea if any of these
characters are in the manga, but something about the way theyâre delivered
is so interesting and fun to watch. I mean, especially with Mr. Blank
Slate as our main character. By the end of this scene weâll have
only seen these characters for less than two minutes and already
they have loads of personality. The relationship between
J Squad and the Sergeant is clearly shown without
having to explain it. And it does a great job of emphasizing
just how screwed Tom Cruise is. [J-Squad Member 1]: Youâre
not in uniform, private. [YMS]: So now itâs the next day and our
main character is being thrown into battle. Typically when an audience is being
exposed to something new onscreen, it helps to have a character who
is equally unfamiliar with it. Now that being said I think
the movie would have worked better if it werenât Tom
Cruise playing Tom Cruise. Heâs not a bad actor and he was
pretty fantastic in Magnolia, but it feels like this role was written
for someone a lot younger than him. Anyway he narrowly escapes
death a few times, and then some giant thing
comes out of the ground! As soon as it notices Tom Cruise it runs
towards him but heâs fast enough to kill it. Its blood gets all over his face and
then he dies and then he wakes up again. Itâs at this point where he
realizes heâs in Groundhog Day. He experiences the same day again,
remembering everything that happened. He uses this knowledge to save
this girl but then dies anyway, at which point he wakes up again! So we get an entertaining montage
of him living, dying, and repeating Heh heh He winds up doing the
same thing so many times that he becomes a badass
and gets to this girl: [Rita] Come find me when you wake up- [YMS]: So now he tries to escape
J-Squad to find the female lead, and that turns out to also
be a trial and error effort. After many tries, he gets to her and
she starts explaining his situation. [Rita]: What happened to you happened
to me. I had it, I lost it, ok? [Cruise]: Yeah, I mean thatâs great thereâs
a cure, how do I get rid of it? [YMS]: I like how he asks to get rid of
the only reason heâs alive right now. âYes, please cure me of my immortality
before I go into battle again.â What he should have asked is, âHow
do you know that your power stopped working unless youâve tried killing
yourself and didnât come back?â âI donât have the power anymore, I tried
killing myself and I didnât come back! Urk.' Thereâs a line of dialogue near the
end of the movie that explains this a little, so donât worry,
Iâll get to it when it shows up. Weâre introduced to this character, who
knows everything about Mimic biology. Just in time for the fake
science mumbo-jumbo scene. [Scientist]: Youâre not fighting
an army, you have to think of this as a single organism, these common
drones they act like its claws. [Rita]: The Alphas, like the one
that you killed, are much more rare- [Scientist]: Yeah, theyâre like
1 in 6.18 million, by my guess. [Rita]: Yes. They act as the enemyâs- [Scientist]: Theyâre like the
central nervous system. But this, is the brain. It controls them all.
And this, is the Omega. And the Omega has the ability to control time. [Rita]: Whenever an Alpha is
killed, an automatic response is triggered. The Omega
starts the day over again. But you see this time, it can remember
whatâs going to happen, just like you do. [Scientist]: When you
killed that Alpha, you inadvertently entered the
enemyâs nervous system. [Rita]: Cage. Youâve seized control of
the Omegaâs ability to reset the day. [Cruise]: Internal Screaming
[Rita]: You control the power now. Just as I did in Verdun. [YMS]: Alright, so everything
that every single one of these Mimics is doing is being
controlled by the Omega. If one of the Alphas dies, then
the Omega resets the 'day.' But if the Alphaâs blood spills on
somebody, then they get the power to reset the day instead and the Omega
loses the power to reset the 'day.' If the Alpha blood got spilled on an earthworm
would it get to reset the day forever? Tom Cruise pretty much
insta-killed that Alpha so I guess weâre supposed to assume
that thereâs a bit of a lag, considering the day didnât reset
as soon as it was killed, so the Omegaâs controlling
every single one of them, and it sends the
Alphas into battle⌠why? If the only way humans can steal that
power from the Omega is to kill an Alpha, why does it even send Alphas into battle? Shouldnât the Omega just keep them hiding
underground ready to off themselves? Like, even if it needs to be
close by to be part of its central nervous system, it
could still hide underground! And if the only reason
they knew you were coming is because theyâve
already reset this day: [J-Squad Member 2]: What the hell⌠Theyâre
not supposed to know weâre even coming⌠[J-Squad Member 3]: Itâs a slaughterhouse
man, itâs a slaughterhouse! [YMS]: Then how did this even happen? Isnât the point of them resetting the day so
that they know everything youâre about to do? Apparently no other Alphas
have been killed in battle up until this point
on this particular 'day,' theyâve reset the day enough times to be
able to strategically kill your whole squad, and then when this Alpha notices that Tom Cruise
is about to accidentally reset the 'day,' at this point the Alpha could just
let Tom Cruise shoot it and be like, âwhatever, Iâll just know where you
are next time the 'day' resets.â But instead it does the only
thing that could possibly give Tom Cruise the
Omegaâs powers, and goes, 'WOULD YOU LIKE A HUG?!??' Later in the movie they confirm that the
Omega is aware of how this happens: [Cruise]: It couldâve killed me but
it didnât. It was after my blood. [Scientist]: So they know who you are,
they⌠they want their power back. [YMS]: So why the fuck does
it go out of its way to do the only things that could
possibly allow it to happen? 'Man, I sure hope that those humans donât
steal my ability to control time, Iâd better send some Alphas out
there to hug them to death.' Also, the Omega has the
ability to reset the day, but instead of it being an actual ability
itâs more like an unintended by-product? Like thereâs several points
in this movie where it would have made a lot of sense for
the Omega to just be like, âWhatever Iâm resetting the day now bitch.â But itâs almost as if it canât
do it unless an Alpha dies? Like if nobody kills an Alpha
then it canât reset the day? [Scientist]: See youâve got to understand is this is aâŚ
perfectly evolved, world conquering organism. [YMS]: You know what I would do if I were a
perfectly evolved, world conquering organism? I would take advantage of the fact that I
could reset the day if one of my Alphas dies. Itâs clearly aware of its powers
and its strategic benefits, but at no point does the Omega
order an Alpha to kill themselves. I mean, the humans havenât
had that power very long and theyâve already figured out
how to take advantage of it. So even near the end of the movie
where the Omega has its powers and itâs witnessing Tom Cruise swimming
towards it with a shit-ton of grenades, not only is it apparently unable to
manually reset the day just by wishing it, but itâs never once thought, 'Hey, maybe I should get one of my
Alphas to kill itself right now so I can reset the day and stop
Tom Cruise before he gets here!â This being the same species that
stopped Tom Cruise from trying to kill himself because they
knew it would reset the 'day.' Youâve stopped your enemy from
killing themselves because you knew it would reset the day so
why havenât you ever tried that? Not even for the sake of self-preservation
does it feel as though thatâs even an option. Even if the Alphas canât kill themselves
you can get another Mimic to do it. Donât act as though their
exteriorsâ too strong or some shit. Werenât they firing a bunch
of rockets at the beginning? Why donât you just leave one
hanging out somewhere with a rocket pointing at its
face ready to kill itself? So Tom Cruise does a bunch of
training and breaks his back. [Rita]: You get injured on the
field, you better make sure you die. [Cruise]: Why? [Rita] Last time I was in combat, I was hit.
I was bleeding out. Just not fast enough. I woke up in a field hospital with three
pints of someone elseâs blood and I was out. I lost the power. Do you understand? [YMS]: Oh, a blood transfusion,
thatâs oddly specific. Is there a specific amount
of someoneâs blood that needs to be in you for
you to lose your power? Do you lose the power if you accidentally
get someone elseâs blood in your mouth? You know, for something that doesnât
exist, like time traveling into the past, the less you try to pretend it makes
sense in a movie, the better. When you try to pretend
itâs something physical inside someoneâs blood it
sounds kind of stupid. Yep, I hit the three pint mark of someone
elseâs blood, now I canât do it anymore. If the powerâs in your blood
then why does getting somebody elseâs blood give
the power back to the Omega? Itâs not like your blood spills back onto
the Omega and then it gets its power back, like the only reason the Omegaâs not doing
it is because you have to take turns. So then we get another training montage
where Tom Cruise lives, dies, and repeats, heh heh, until finally he gets a vision. So now they need to figure
out how theyâre going to get off the beach so they
can track down the Omega. So we get another montage of them
figuring it out through trial and error. So the Omega knows exactly what youâre doing
and controls every single one of those Mimics, but itâs controlling them to do
the exact same thing every time? Like, if it didnât do that then
youâd never be able to predict it. Itâs helping you succeed
for absolutely no reason. So if youâre going to make
the argument that the day resets for Tom Cruise without
the Omega being aware of it, then how did it track him down to give
him that vision and what happened differently that time that didnât
happen any of the other times? If the Omega senses that its powers are lost
and itâs trying to track down Tom Cruise, but itâs unaware of the day
resetting, then it would be looking in the exact same
place every single time. The only way the Omega could
eventually track down Tom Cruise is if it tried something different
every time the day reset. Seriously, Tom Cruise was
training in the exact same place and dying in the exact
same place the whole time, so if the Omega eventually
mind-tracked him down it would have to be aware
of the day resetting. If thatâs not the case then I
guess Tom Cruise just happened to crawl to the exact same spot it
was searching every single 'day.' And if thatâs the case,
then that very specific spot would have had to
have been its first guess. Clearly it has the ability to do things
differently every time the day resets, even if the dayâs being
reset by Tom Cruise. And yet itâs controlling
every single one of those Mimics to do the exact same
thing every single day? How does it benefit the Omega for
Tom Cruise to be progressing? If itâs aware enough of you resetting
the day for it to be able to find you, then why does it insist
on every single Mimic doing the exact same
thing every single time? If itâs not aware then how did it find you? You can have one or the other, not both. We then get a scene of Tom Cruise being
confronted by people from J-Squad, and itâs this scene that really shows the
heart of why people enjoy this concept. Thereâs something about being
able to predict everyoneâs every move that strikes a chord
with us as human beings. It combines the 'What if things were
different' fantasy from time travel movies with the making people
question their own sanity concept we see in a lot
of popular prank videos. Having that sort of omniscience
and mental power over people is something that
we all wish we could do. So itâs no surprise that even
though this type of scene has been done a million times
before, itâs still entertaining, for now at least. So eventually they escape the beach, find a car, run out of gas, find another place, and then find a helicopter. Tom Cruise wants to
siphon the gas from the helicopter but Rita insists
they should fly it. But first Tom Cruise wants
to tend to her wound. He makes her some coffee, but then: [Rita]: How many times have we been here? [YMS]: Oh, so Tom Cruise was just pretending
that this was the furthest heâs gotten, when secretly heâs done
this a million times. [Rita]: What are we still doing
here, youâre wasting time. [Cruise:] Rita, if you
start that engine you die. [YMS]: SHIIIIIIIT [Cruise]: Thereâs a Mimic,
buried, twenty yards away, and it attacks when you
start the engine. Only one of us ever makes it.
[Rita]: Get in. [Cruise]: The only thing we
havenât tried is a version where you walk away, just
go back to the farmhouse. Thereâs a cellar, thereâs food, you wait
there âtill I get back. Youâll be safe. [Rita]: Iâm a soldier. I
volunteered, Iâm not walking away. [Cruise]: You die here! Right here!
And if I go on and kill the Omega, youâre dead.
Forever. [Rita]: Why does it matter
what happens to me? [YMS]: Really, you donât care if you die? [Rita]: Youâre not being
specific, do you understand, you need to be specific,
otherwise Iâm dead. [YMS]: Why the fuck do
you want to die so bad? He is giving you a potential option to save
your life while he goes to kill the Omega. She doesnât even bother to ask
him the circumstances under which she would die if she
did start the helicopter. Like maybe she could start
the helicopter, and prevent it still if she knew how it
was going to attack her, but nope, sheâs in suicide mode! Whatâs that, thereâs another
option we havenât tried where I get to live and you
get to kill the Omega? No way! Eeewwwps! If youâre putting the mission
ahead of your own life shouldnât you be doing
exactly what he says anyway? Is it not apparent to you that if you die
he will kill himself and restart it? If you want him to destroy the Omega
why arenât you listening to him? âAdam, thatâs not far-fetched,
people act irrationally all the time to transition the second act into
the third in Hollywood movies. When youâre going into the third
act people have to be sad or upset with each other and
how it happens is irrelevant. You should just enjoy the movie
by ignoring parts of the movie.â So now Tom Cruise decides that the only thing
left to do is just not tell Rita anything, he destroys all of the Mimics at the barn and
then goes in the helicopter by himself. So he gets all the way to
this specific location in Germany and oh shit, the
Omega isnât even there! So then this Alpha shows up
and heâs like, super pissed. It stops Tom Cruise from
suiciding, but heâs sneaky enough to crawl into this little
space and then he drowns. [Cruise]: It was after my blood. [Scientist]: So they know who you are,
they... they want their power back. [YMS]: They know who you are and
they want their power back. They wanted your blood. Were they
just gonna like, swim around in it? Did your blood not get on any of those Mimics
those other million times they killed you? I guess it only works for Alphas. And despite there being an Alpha on the
very same battlefield you have been dying 8 million times on, it never once decided to
cut you open and swim around inside you. So letâs just say that
the Omega wasnât certain it was him until he
showed up at that place, did he not run into a bunch of
Mimics on the way to that place? Would it not have been easy for the Omega
to assume that the one guy escaping the battle headed in that very same direction
is the guy that stole their power? He died from those Mimics on the farm
enough times to memorize where they were, they could have just immobilized him
and waited for an Alpha to show up. But nope, this is a
perfectly evolved world conquering organism thatâs
dumber than a small child. I mean, look at this stupid little shit. What, you think lifeâs happy
or something, youâre wrong, grow up and stop being a little bitch! And if the Omegaâs conscious of the day
repeating, which the movie tells us it is, then it should notice that Tom
Cruise is the only fucking person doing something differently
every single goddamn day. And even earlier than that it should
have noticed that Tom Cruise was the only person in the battle that
exploded an Alpha over top of himself. I am trying to view this story according to
the rules that the movie set up for itself. Why does this make me the bad guy? Time for some more fake
science mumbo-jumbo! [Cruise]: What is this thing? [Scientist]: Itâs a transponder. You
stick it into the Alpha and it taps into the wavelength connecting it to
the Omega, thatâs the idea anyway. [YMS]: WHAT? How the fuck did you build this shit??? âHey, I built a device that if
you stick it into a live Alpha it taps into the wavelength
connecting it to the Omega.â [Scientist]: Hey, hey, hey!
Arenât you forgetting something? The transponder requires a
live Alpha to make it work! [Rita]: We donât need one.
Weâve got the next best thing. [YMS]: Yeah, fuck you guy who invented this
impossible device, weâre the real experts. This ought to resolve that conflict. So now they have to go on an
adventure to get an actual working one, and hey, itâs
back where the general is. He manipulates him into
opening the safe right behind his desk and giving him
exactly what he needs. And apparently this is the first
time theyâve ever gotten this far. They try to leave with it, but oh shit! Alright, letâs try this again
except now we have a get-away car. So while theyâre escaping they jam it into
his leg and within 25 seconds of doing so, he knows exactly where the Omega is. So now he snaps out of it and theyâre
still driving for some reason. What, do you think youâre going
to go back to the fucking base? The same base where the
general had complete power to fuck over Tom Cruise
in the first place? Where is it do you think
that youâre going and why donât you shoot Tom Cruise
in the head right now? Oh wait, thereâs a major
plot device that wouldnât happen if they didnât get
into a car accident. So let me get this straight,
the both of you are very experienced in this
whole time travel thing. For Tom Cruise, it seems like heâs been
doing it at least a year in his time, and yet neither of them
thought, hey why do we even need to escape this building
in the first place? Why donât we stick it into your leg
in the same room as the general? If they did that not only would they
know exactly where the Omega is, but they wouldnât have any
resistance while doing it because they could do it while the
generalâs still at gunpoint. And if you didnât want to share
that information with the general you could just kill
Tom Cruise directly after. Then Tom Cruise could just show
back up and be like, âHey, I know exactly where the Omega is, letâs
start doing shit to kill it!â But given the fact that
Tom Cruise didnât know how to use this device
until this very scene: [Cruise]: What am I supposed to do with this?
[Rita]: Stick it in your leg! [YMS]: Apparently it crossed neither
of their minds in the at least dozens of times theyâve been on
this mission to get this device. What fucking reason do you have to
leave the building in a chase scene? For what reason did you not try using
the device as soon as you got it? Like never mind the fact
that your wild guess that it would work on a human being
just happened to work out, why on earth did you feel as though you
needed to escape the building with it? Especially after you already tried it once and
realized there would be an army chasing you? This is a movie that punishes you for trying
to get into the minds of the characters. Either the movie just doesnât
want you to do that or the script itself doesnât understand the
characters that theyâve written. Analyzing a movie is
something that fans of the movie should be doing
if they like the movie. Keep in mind that Iâm able to enjoy
it, itâs a fun popcorn flick! But people seriously need to stop
translating âI enjoyed itâ into â10/10!â So they drive around a bunch
going who the fuck knows where, Tom Cruise gets shot in the
leg and then they crash. He wakes up and oh no, I
got a blood transfusion! Maybe I shouldnât have tried
driving away in a car with dozens of trained military
personnel firing at my vehicle. There was just no other way! So Rita breaks him out and is like, âLetâs
start over, Iâm gonna kill you now,â but heâs like, âNo, I lost the power
âcuz I got a blood transfusion!â [Cruise]: I lost the power! I feel it. [YMS]: OK, so *finally* they
give some sort of indication as to why theyâre so certain
that they lose their power. Still feels kind of cheap
to me personally, but if youâre okay with this
explanation then thatâs okay. Itâs a nice save to a movie that would
otherwise have characters making one in a million wild guesses that
just happen to be 100% accurate, like certainty over the
existence of the Omega, and certainty over this untested
technical mumbo-jumbo device, and its compatibility with
species it was not designed for, and the unquestionable fact that if you
specifically kill an Alpha it resets the day. Not sure how they came to
that conclusion, considering nobody could have ever
possibly observed it! Here in Hollywood, wild one in
a million guesses are facts! The story needs the main characters
to understand this information, so how they understand it
is completely irrelevant. Theyâre just omniscient
beings that enjoy taking the route that causes
them the most conflict. So now that Tom Cruise doesnât have his
powers, the stakes are really high. Suddenly everythingâs super serious now
because thereâs real consequences to death. They go back to J-Squad and he
manipulates them into helping out. So finally weâre back with the only
interesting characters in the whole movie. Mr. and Mrs. Blank Slate just didnât cut it
for me, so this is a breath of fresh air. So J-Squad steals an aircraft and now theyâre
on their way to the Louvre in France. [J-Squad Member 2]: Do
not kill an Alpha! If we kill an Alpha the Omega
will reset this whole day. [YMS]: Weâre not sure how
anybody knows that to be a fact, but we will
consider it to be one. How does anybody know that itâs when you kill
an Alpha and not when you kill the Omega? The amount of evidence you have
pointing towards either are equal. Not a single character has ever witnessed
the day being reset by an Alpha dying. If the day gets reset by an Alpha
dying then you donât remember it. How did anybody come to this
indisputable conclusion? [J-Squad Member 3]: So what am I supposed to
do if one of those Alphas is about to kill me? [Cruise]: Take a hit for the team. [YMS]: Take a hit for the
team, or just make sure its blood spills on you and
then youâll get the powers! You know, Tom, youâve done that
battle on the beach so many times, you donât think you could recreate what
gave you your powers in the first place? Right now youâre going
into uncharted territory with no fucking clue
what youâre going to do! You have no idea how many Mimics are there, where they are, what kind of
defenses they have set up, or fucking anything! You donât think it would be a
better idea to go into the setting that you basically have memorized
to get your powers back? Is the movie pretending like, âOh no he canât do that, because this
time they know who he is and theyâll remember him if they see him and
then theyâll do things differently.' But hasnât he reset the day
several times since they saw him? So shouldnât the Omega
not know who he is now? Shouldnât he be able to go back
to that very same battlefield and have all of them do the exact same
thing that heâs already memorized? Because if thatâs not the case
then that means the Omega can retain information even if itâs
not the one resetting the day. And not only would that do away with the
entire idea of Tom Cruise stealing its power, like how would there be a disadvantage
to somebody else resetting the day if you can do things
differently every day anyway, but there would be absolutely no reason
why the Omega would have the Mimics doing the exact same thing every day
in the first two acts of the movie. So can it retain information when Tom
Cruise resets the day or canât it? Isnât the whole point of the power that you
can retain information when the day resets? Isnât the whole plot of the movie that Tom
Cruise stole that ability from the Omega? You canât fucking have both! Especially if zero percent
of the characters are going to acknowledge this
major contradiction. Why donât you just go back to the beach
and get your powers back easily? Then this uncharted boss battle can be done 8
million times until you get it right. The characters are omniscient geniuses
when itâs convenient for the script, and the characters are bumbling morons
when itâs convenient for the script. âAdam, thatâs not important, itâs
just the entire plot of the movie. The filmâs logic only gets contradicted
in like, every single scene. You should just enjoy the movie
by ignoring parts of the movie.â Letâs all go to where we think
the Omega is and hope that itâs not the most heavily guarded
fortress in all of the universe. Oh shit, we fucked up. Man, if only there was some way
where I could have my time travel powers while doing this battle.
There was just no other way. What a surprise, they get
shot the fuck up. There are needless casualties and
Tom Cruise almost drowns. So now all of the Mimics that were
attacking them suddenly disappear so our characters can regroup and figure
out what the fuck theyâre doing. They decide they need to use this thing to
crash into the wall so they can get inside, two of them heroically suicide, and one of
them becomes another needless casualty. Itâs a good thing the Omegaâs
stronghold was a fortress of glass. So they manage to get inside
and dodge death a few times. They see an Alpha close by and theyâre like,
âOkay, one of us is going to distract it while the other one goes to kill the Omega. And letâs just
both expect that weâre both gonna die here.â Letâs just remember that everything
they know about the Omega is just what theyâve seen
visually through those visions. You brought all those
grenades, but are you certain that theyâll even
damage it whatsoever? Did your vision inform you as to how much
firepower you will need to destroy the Omega? Like you havenât even confirmed
that itâs actually here. You are doing this based off of a vision. A vision strikingly similar to another
vision that was completely wrong, remember? Maybe this would all have
been a lot easier if there was a way that you could have
gotten your powers back. So she goes to distract the
Omega, and she dies. Oh no. Tom Cruise takes his chance and- uh, god-goddammit. So now heâs swimming towards
the Omega with a bunch of grenades and the Alpha swims
towards him to try to stop him. Letâs just all forget
that they could stop him easily if the Alpha committed
suicide right now. Or if the Omega wasnât comically unable to
use its own powers unless an Alpha dies. The Omega canât control
any of the other Alphas on the planet to be killing
themselves right now? Can it not control any of the
other Mimics to kill the Alpha? Nope, because this is where the
main character has to save the day. So the Omega explodes and everything
itâs controlling withers up and dies. And then oh my god, the
Omegaâs blood seeps around Tom Cruise and you guessed
it, the day resets. God fucking damn it. So I guess Iâm going to have to kill
the Omega all over again, right? Well that would be the most logical, so no. You see, this time when the day resets, the
Omega dies before Tom Cruise killed it. And also, instead of him waking up as a
fresh recruit like 100% of the other times he woke up in this movie, he
gets to keep his rank as an officer! Yay! So like even though nobody knows he saved
the day he gets saluted and respected! Yay! A. The Omega died so the day shouldnât
have even been reset, and B. If the Omega resets it
should still be alive. Itâs not like every single time
the day reset for you before the enemies werenât still there
that you already killed. Fuck logic, what people
want is a happy ending. So overall this movie was way
too distractingly inconsistent and self-contradictory for me to
be able to consider it great. There were parts of it that I loved, but a
lot of it I just couldnât take seriously. It was generally fun to watch but
unlike the movies that I love, this is one that punishes you
for trying to think about it. If that doesnât make the movie any
worse for you thatâs okay, Iâm not trying to get you to stop
enjoying things that you like. But for me personally, I prefer watching
a story that can at least follow itself. Iâm not asking for a time travel movie
to make logical and physical sense, all Iâm asking is that it follows the
very same rules it sets up for itself. I guess maybe thatâs just asking too much.
This is just my personal opinion, but I think you should consider stopping being so defensive of your thoughts in videos. In this one and in Planet of the Apes, you seem to constantly refer to the fact that your criticisms are valid, as if to preemptively shut down negative comments about "nitpicking". I think you've kind of become who you are on YouTube through your extremely detailed analysis, and there's no need to defend that. It kind of wastes time and makes you seem underconfident in the things you say.
Still a fucking awesome review and I'm so happy you brought up things I never even thought of before, and caught the words coming right out of my mouth about the omega knowing what would happen vs. Looking for him
I thought the movie was pretty good. I didn't think it was revolutionary or anything. It was just a very enjoyable sci-fi. The acting and the CGI was good. Obviously they couldn't spend too much time explaining how the Alpha blood and time traveling science work. I just accepted what's happening on screen as if the scientists don't really know exactly how the science works. It's a huge cop out. Still, I think more people would've gone to see it (and probably enjoyed it) if it was advertised better.
While I agree with Adam's points I wonder what he feels is the most appropriate way to explain a time travel scenario. They all seem to have holes in them and the real meat and potatoes of this review was how bad the logic of the time travel was given the actions of the characters. I wish there was more criticism of the technical and character aspects instead of like 10 minutes of poking holes in the time travel.
Just started watching the video and don't want to be a buzzkill, but... The whole "Omega knows about Tom Cruise being superimmortal" only comes out at the end, right? So maybe the omega didn't know at first that it could happen. It happened once with Blunt and it didn't stick long enough for Omega to notice anything. Then it happened to Cruise and it stuck for a while, so eventually the Omega caught on and realized that humans could acquire that power. After that point it would be dumb for it to send alphas after humans, yes, but before then... eh? I mean, it''s not like the Omega studied the humans by a textbook and learned that getting blood on them is bad for it.
The ending is truly a clusterfuck. I've seen many an attempt to offer a "true explanation", but honestly there are so many theories out there that I don't believe that the current ending is deeper than suggested. I searched to see if there was an alternate ending somewhere, but all I could find was a planned part of the third act;
(quote above courtesy FilmSchoolRejects' interview with screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie, which you can read here)
Since this was based off of a manga called All You Need Is Kill, I decided to see whether or not the ending in the book made any more sense (I wasn't planning on reading it anyways, manga's just not my cup of tea). Holy fuck, is that ending better.
MAJOR SPOILERS FOR ALL YOU NEED IS KILL. IF YOU WANT TO READ IT, STOP READING HERE.
(courtesy CinemaBlend article comparing the two here)
So not only does the manga not have the blood transfusion clause, but it has what could have been an amazing climax. Cage would have been forced to kill Rita and then be hailed as a hero for the rest of his life for doing so.
WHY COULDN'T THIS HAVE BEEN THE ENDING? Why did the blood transfusion bit have to come up at all? If you can "feel" it, why not just have it wear off after a while? I guess a happy ending was favored for the obvious reason of making the audience feel like everything's been wrapped up with a pretty bow.
Hey Adam, what were the parts of it that you loved? You only mentioned J Squad
Edit: Also, how was Tom Cruise supposed to get to the beaches after he got in the car crash and is now a branded war criminal that just escaped from captivity? Why do you think they had to sneak to J Squad on the military base?
God the youtube comments. I dont know if they are serious or not, they are that stupid.
I'm not trying to debunk anyone here, but it's my understanding that Tom Cruise didn't steal the Omega's power, but instead the whole day resetting thing is an instinctive reflex in the Omega triggered by the death of an Alpha,and when Tom Cruise had the blood spilled on him he himself accidentally entered the Omega's nervous system and became an alpha. Therefore I don't think Tom Cruise had the power to reset the day himself, but rather the Omega thought instinctly he was an Alpha and was resetting the day itself every time Tom Cruise died. I don't think therefore that the Omega was necessarily searching for him, rather I think it took a little bit to realize what was happening, aka that he was in its nervous system. I also therefore think that the Alpha's didnt want Tom Cruises blood, but rather they wanted him to bleed out the properties of the Alpha blood that were within him so that he could no longer trigger the resets. When someone else transfused their blood into him this happened anyways. There's still plenty of holes in the movie and in this explanation but I figured I'd post it anyways. Feel free to argue or debate any of this.
EDIT: This doesn't explain the ending at all either and I understand that, but I don't think anything will. It kind've defied all logic.
So I'm assuming the picture of the kid at around 16:45 is you right?