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Wednesday, May 30, 2018

EDGE OF TOMORROW (2014)

WAR OF THE WORLDS meets GROUNDHOG DAY.* And that’s pretty much it for this Tom Cruise/Emily Blunt/dir. Doug Liman affair. Generally well-received as a Sci-Fi actioner in the modern style of slice-and-dice edit/story/logic, fanboys thought it would have caught on big-time if they’d swapped out that generic title for the Ad Copy: LIVE, DIE, REPEAT. Catchy, no? Non-enthusiasts can have dumb fun noticing how everyone in here seems to be playing (make that ‘seems to be played by’) someone else: Cruise: Dennis Quaid; Emily Blunt: Uma Thurman; Brendan Gleeson: Ernest Borgnine; Franz Drameh . . . Franz Drameh, who he? Oh, the one who's playing Cuba Gooding.

DOUBLE-BILL: *That’s WAR OF THE WORLDS 1953, not the Cruise/Spielberg 2005 model.

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