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Brigham (Brendan Gleeson, at his most hardass and no-nonsense) orders him into the front lines of battle, even going so far as to arrest him when he tries to wriggle his way out.ĭespite Cage’s vigorous protests to his commanding officer (a fine Bill Paxton) that there’s been some mistake, his fate is sealed: Strapped into bulky metal combat gear and equipped with high-grade weaponry that he has no clue how to operate, Cage, along with his fellow soldiers, is deployed from London and deposited, none too gently, on a French beach, where a fiery humans-vs.-Mimics battle is raging at full force. Introduced as a smiling representative of the United Defense Force, an enormous military operation designed to defend Earth against a nearly invincible alien race known as Mimics, Cage is a figurehead, not a fighter, which his why he’s so dumbfounded when Gen. William Cage (Cruise) must spend the better part of “Edge of Tomorrow” learning to unlock the ruthless soldier within. That’s a shame, because this enjoyably gimmicky entertainment is not only one of Cruise’s better recent efforts, it’s also arguably the most purely pleasurable film Doug Liman has directed in the 12 years since “The Bourne Identity.” And just as the amnesiac hero of that movie had to gradually get back in touch with his inner killing machine, so the initially hapless, aptly named Maj.

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