Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

This very satisfactory specimen of a summer blockbuster has action, science fiction, humor, and redemption as a military PR guy gets thrown into combat, is killed, and wakes up the morning he arrived at the front, over and over again. Jack and I prefer the tag line "Live, Die, Repeat" to the actual title. Tom Cruise (most recently in Rock of Ages) stars along with Emily Blunt (last blogged in The Wind Rises) under the direction of Doug Liman (most recently in these pages for helming Fair Game).

The comparisons to Groundhog Day (1993) are inevitable, but this one is adapted from a Japanese manga (graphic novel) with a screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie (won Oscar for The Usual Suspects (1995) and wrote Valkyrie, which also starred Cruise) and brothers Jez and John-Henry Butterworth, who wrote Fair Game for Liman.

You can stream a few tracks from the soundtrack by Christophe Beck (last blogged in The Guilt Trip--happily he's back on track) at his website.

Averaging 90% from critics and 92 from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, this was #10 at the box office ten weeks after release. We saw it over six weeks ago. Not the only movie you must see all summer, but a fun one nonetheless.