Weekly Watches: October 22, 2025

Time Loops, Chariots, Chain Gangs, and One Faith-Filled Funnyman.

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Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

By

Alex San Luis

Edge of Tomorrow takes place in a modern world not unlike ours but with a brutal twist. Cybernetic aliens attempted an invasion of Earth but with global military unity, humanity has them cornered. Industrial developments such as exoskeletons and futuristic planes assist in mankind’s fight. Major William Cage (played by Tom Cruise) is a military public affairs person that helps convince the masses of one simple conclusion: a final push into alien-controlled France would serve as a fatal blow to man’s biggest threat. Through a series of actions orchestrated by a gung-ho general, the protagonist himself is unconsensually placed on the front lines of the invasion he promoted at length. He horribly dies on the day of the offensive by an alien but miraculously wakes up hours earlier that day. William goes through countless mortal endings while trying different ways to escape the loop. As he tries to figure out this conundrum, he receives a cryptic message. The messenger is a Master Chief-level warrior named Rita Vrataski (played by Emily Blunt), AKA “the Angel of Verdun.” This makes the main character hopeful he can get out of this purgatory and win the war.

As a quick humorous aside, I realized this film depicts a war propagandist being put in the actual conflict that they convinced others of fighting and dying for (which is rare in real life.) I enjoyed that the protagonist’s deaths are played in a variety of brief comedic ways yet often lend themselves to different critical plot points. They also serve as a way to show how he learns from his mistakes and becomes a veteran warrior himself. The aliens are CGI nanobot beings that compete with the robots in the “Transformers” franchise on a visual level. The side characters are written mostly as stereotypes or people for the main characters to simply mess around with, but no role was played sloppily or inorganically. Cruise and Blunt certainly brought their A-game to this film. This is the kind of sci-fi time loop film that I enjoy endlessly and will never tire of. It’s a darn good movie to me.