{"id":10659,"date":"2017-04-26T19:45:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T23:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=10659"},"modified":"2017-04-26T19:45:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T23:45:44","slug":"edge-of-tomorrow-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/edge-of-tomorrow-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Edge of Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Find me when you wake up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edge of Tomorrow<\/strong>, released in 2014<\/p>\n<p>Humanity is in a desperate war against vicious aliens called Mimics who&#8217;ve invaded Earth. Major Cage is in media relations but after trying to bribe an officer he&#8217;s busted down to private and forced to fight. When he&#8217;s killed, he goes back to the moment when he woke up that morning. He&#8217;s killed again and again &#8212; each time he learns something, and eventually he tries to figure out what the time loop is all about.<\/p>\n<p>I love this movie. It&#8217;s a perfect blend of action and thoughtfulness. There are many hilarious moments.<\/p>\n<p>You have to make some assumption to make the ending make sense, but after the perfection of the rest of the movie I&#8217;m willing to do that.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s completely gripping, even if you know what&#8217;s going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure why the director thought Emily Blunt would make a great action star, but he was right.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Tom Cruise and Bill Paxton. Directed by Doug Liman (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/the-bourne-identity\/\"><strong>The Bourne Identity<\/strong><\/a>). The in-your-face music is by Christophe Beck.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 2nd time I&#8217;ve seen it. My previous review is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/edge-of-tomorrow\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Find me when you wake up.&#8221; Edge of Tomorrow, released in 2014 Humanity is in a desperate war against vicious aliens called Mimics who&#8217;ve invaded Earth. Major Cage is in media relations but after trying to bribe an officer he&#8217;s busted down to private and forced to fight. When he&#8217;s killed, he goes back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,5,8],"class_list":["post-10659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10659"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10665,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10659\/revisions\/10665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}