Fitted with the latest in mechanical battle suits, Cruse somehow finds himself in a seemingly endless 'time loop' of fighting, dying and waking back where he started, each time edging a little closer to both victory and an answer to what's happening to him.
Bill Paxton seems to have a great time playing the same Master Sargeant that bust his balls in Aliens, he just needs the cigar. Emily Blunt plays confused and angry quite well, it is pretty well everyone's motif for this movie, and though there are plenty of other recognisable faces they're fairly inconsequential to the story. The production and action are good but, though I did enjoy this film, it suffers from some major problems. The storyline is a mix of lots of others we've seen before, Groundhog Day, Starship Troopers and the much better and more popular District 9, it even has the same opening sequences as half a dozen better movies. Tom Cruse is good but looks old and we'd have been better off with a nobody. After about an hour the film loses focus and we get a needless bit of semi romance between Cruse and Blunt, it feels a little forced in terms of writing but it doesn't last long and leads fairly well to the finale.
The film didn't do well at the box office and the studio tried repackaging it with the stupid name Live, Die, Repeat, a mistake that didn't help the situation, but in a market flooded with bad sci-fi this one works well. Enjoyable, well paced and very watchable.
Oh, and the suits remind you of Halo, and that's pretty cool!
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