Edge of Tomorrow

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Movie
German title Edge of Tomorrow
Original title Edge of Tomorrow
Edge of Tomorrow Logo.jpg
Country of production USA ,
UK ,
South Korea
original language English
Publishing year 2014
length 113 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Doug Liman
script Christopher McQuarrie ,
Jez Butterworth ,
John-Henry Butterworth
production Jason Hoffs ,
Gregory Jacobs ,
Tom Lassally ,
Jeffrey Silver ,
Erwin Stoff
music Christophe Beck
camera Dion Beebe
cut James Herbert ,
Laura Jennings
occupation

Edge of Tomorrow ( Tagline : Live Repeat... Is) an American feature film category military science fiction from director Doug Liman from the year 2014 . The feature film is based on the Japanese light novel All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka and was shown in Swiss and German cinemas in 3D and IMAX format on May 29, 2014 and one day later in Austria.

action

An alien race - the Mimics  - has conquered large parts of continental Europe and killed the population. The mimics appear in three manifestations. The army of mimic drones, which forms the lowest level of the hierarchy, is commanded by a few alpha mimics . At the top is the omega mimic , which represents a kind of superordinate brain and controls all other mimics. The omega can control time. Whenever an Alpha dies, the Omega sets the time back by one day - so it knows the future course of the day - and is thus always one step ahead of people. Military forces around the world have formed the United Defense Force (UDF), but over the years they have only won one victory in the Battle of Verdun . This victory was staged by the Mimics to make people believe they could be defeated.

US Major Bill Cage, responsible for public relations , is summoned to London . There the military commander, four-star General Brigham, is preparing Operation Downfall: the greatest offensive of the war to retake continental Europe. Brigham orders Cage to accompany the first wave of attacks in Normandy with a film crew. Since Cage has no combat experience, he refuses to obey and tries to blackmail Brigham with the threat of negative headlines about him because of the high expected losses. When the latter arrests him, Cage tries to escape and is drugged with a taser .

Cage wakes up in handcuffs on a military base at London Heathrow Airport . As a deserter , he was demoted to private and assigned to Group J , which the next day, equipped with artificial exoskeletons , was dropped off at the front line on a French beach. But the Mimics knew about the airborne operation and cause a bloodbath among the soldiers. When an Alpha pounces on Cage, he can detonate a directional charge and kill the alien. Its blood pours on the dying cage. He woke up again in handcuffs at the military base at noon the previous day.

It turns out that the blood of the alpha on Cage transmitted the information to return to that point in time in the event of death: every time he dies, he wakes up again 24 hours before the then death of the alpha. Knowing what will happen next, he succeeds in surviving longer in battle. On the battlefield, he meets the war heroine Sergeant Rita Vrataski, who showed skill and heroism in Verdun and achieved fame as the "Angel of Verdun". Vrataski, who at the time also killed an Alpha and ended up in a time warp, has since lost this ability due to a blood transfusion. She realizes that Cage has this ability and, shortly before her death, asks him to visit her the next time he "wakes up".

Then Cage finds Vrataski, whom he must first inform again about his abilities. Together with the scientist Dr. Carter, they make a plan to find and kill the Omega. In the course of further time loops, Cage trainings against mimic dummies until he is ready for the mission against the Omega. Soon Cage had visions showing the Omega in a dam in Switzerland , which Carter identified as the arched dam on the Lai da Curnera . After several attempts, Cage manages to get through to the dam, but the vision turns out to be an ambush where an alpha awaits him. It wounds Cage instead of killing him, bleeding him out of his ability to time travel. By drowning himself in time, Cage retains the ability.

Together with Vrataski, after several attempts, he manages to get through to General Brigham and convince him to hand him an experimental tracking device that can track the omega's control radiation using a living alpha mimic . Since Cage has the properties of an Alpha-Mimic , he can locate the Omega-Mimic in the flooded basement of the Louvre in Paris . However, since he is injured, captured and kept alive by a blood transfusion while escaping from Brigham's security team, he loses his ability to generate time loops; all that remains for him is one attempt to kill the omega.

Cage and Vrataski come with the support of Group J in a stolen tiltrotor - Quadcopter to Paris and fight his way up to the grounds of the Louvre. With the loss of the entire unit, they end up under the glass pyramid in the inner courtyard of the Louvre . The omega is guarded by an alpha, which the two are not allowed to attack, as after its death it would return to the previous day knowing that the omega will be found. After a first and last kiss, Vrataski sacrifices himself so that Cage has enough time to dive down to the Omega. The Alpha pursues Cage underwater and mortally wounds him, but he can still detonate his grenades and kill the Omega. His body comes into contact with the blood of the killed Omega and he wakes up again in a time warp. This time he is still on the approach to London as Operation Downfall has been canceled and his appointment with General Brigham has been changed. In a press conference, Brigham reported on a morning energy impulse in Paris that had brought all mimic activities to a standstill. Finally, Cage visits Vrataski again in the base. He smiles when she greets him as rudely as she has done countless times in the past.

production

In April 2010, Warner Bros. purchased a screenplay by Dante W. Harper for an adaptation of Sakurazaka's novel for the film for $ 3 million . The project went through a development process before Doug Liman directed the film. Since then the script has been revised by several scriptwriters. These authors are Joby Harold , Steven Kloves , Christopher McQuarrie , Tim Kring , Jez Butterworth and most recently Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci .

While the studio originally called Brad Pitt to star, Tom Cruise was selected as the lead actor in December 2011. Tom Cruise began preproduction for the film less than a week after Oblivion was released .

In September 2012 filming began in London at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden , near Watford . The Trafalgar Square in London was completely blocked for filming taking place there temporarily.

Edge of Tomorrow was not shot in native 3D, but with normal film cameras and only converted afterwards. In order to still ensure a convincing 3D effect, a stereographer was worked on on set .

The first trailer was released on December 11, 2013.

Reviews

The film received mostly positive reviews. The film review portal Rotten Tomatoes gives 91% positive ratings for the film and it has a Metascore of 75 out of 100 at Metacritic . The industry journal Variety described the film as a "well-made and driving sci-fi thriller", it was the best film by director Liman since The Bourne Identity  (2002).

"The [plot] should even please people who don't like Tom Cruise, because this film doesn't like its star either and therefore pushes, pulls and kicks through the plot in such a way that malicious cruise-hostile elements burn holes in their 3D images with glee. Glasses will stare. [...] First-class, unrestrained, total madness. "

- Dietmar Dath : Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

" Edge of Tomorrow is a festival for Tom Cruise haters: never before have they seen their enemy image torn, flattened, burned, blown up and rammed into the ground so often in spectacular scenarios."

- Andreas Busche : The time

continuation

As a result, a second part of Edge of Tomorrow was announced, which should be prequel and sequel at the same time. While Doug Liman's script is said to have already been written, the start of production of the film was postponed again and again in the following years, as the main actors were heavily involved in other film projects (Emily Blunt 2018 through Mary Poppins' return , Tom Cruise 2019 and 2020 through Mission: Impossible 7 and 8).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Approval certificate for Edge of Tomorrow . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2014 (PDF; test number: 145 040 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Edge of Tomorrow . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Publication in German cinemas . In: imdb.com .
  4. ↑ Mike Fleming Jr: Warners Makes 7-Figure Spec Deal For Japanese Novel 'All You Need Is Kill'. In: Deadline . April 5, 2010, accessed October 26, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Claude Brodesser-Akner: Brad Pitt as the main role . In: vulture.com . September 23, 2011.
  6. ↑ Mike Fleming Jr: Tom Cruise Close To 'All You Need Is Kill'. In: Deadline . December 1, 2011, accessed October 26, 2014 .
  7. ↑ filming . In: imdb.com .
  8. ^ Louise Saunder: No entry to Trafalgar Square. In: Daily Mail . November 25, 2012, accessed March 5, 2015 .
  9. ^ Alan Blair: Director's Chair: Doug Liman - 'Edge of Tomorrow'. In: Post Magazine. June 1, 2014, accessed October 24, 2014 .
  10. ↑ First trailer on: YouTube . December 11th 2013.
  11. ^ Edge of Tomorrow. Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved May 26, 2014 .
  12. ↑ Edge of Tomorrow at Metacritic (English)
  13. ↑ Justin Chang : Film Review: 'Edge of Tomorrow'. In: Variety . May 22, 2014, accessed March 5, 2015 .
  14. ↑ Dietmar Dath : Staggering through time, for two. In: Feuilleton. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 30, 2014, accessed on June 2, 2014 .
  15. ↑ Andreas Busche: The 1,000 deaths of Mr. Cruise. In: The time . May 28, 2014, accessed July 9, 2016 .