Quick ending explanation as I interpret it: The other 'resets' were from the blood of the blue guys but the brain of the omega was still alive. When he got the omega blood on him at the end, the big brain was dead and the reset was more... uncontrolled and the aliens didn't reset with it (they had no unifying brain). The Omega was dead so it couldn't reset. Tom still had the memories (shown by his reset confusion) and when he met Emily's character at the end, the assumption is that he gives her the entire story and he can at least take her out to dinner or something. Happily ever after.
"The Omega was dead so it couldn't reset." Yes, that's it exactly. He got the blood on him so he could go back, but the Omega died and could not continue. Since the Omega also was the brains of the aliens, they all died when the Omega died.
There's no real evidence in the film to back this up, so far as I remember, but I always kind of liked the idea that killing the alpha lets you temporarily take control of the Omega's power, whereas killing the Omega GIVES you the power, which means Cage could theoretically find a way for Rita to exist long enough to know him as well as he knows her. He doesn't just get the day. He gets ALL the time he lost. Maybe just me. I'm a romantic.
My interpretation is that the Omega was working from a 'baseline', so it existed at that point in time and the future. When Tom Cruise died, the Omega's blood carried him back to the 'baseline' as the last connection of the Omega, but as the Omega existed at all points in time, dying in one killed it in all, so now it is dead along with the minions
@@martind5653The movie is pretty different from the manga already, but I thought they did a good job. There's been talk for years about a sequel but I don't know where they could go with it and still make it interesting AND plausible.
This is definitely an underrated movie. It is probably the most intelligent use of the time travel trope in recent years, and rather than use it as a crutch, it is a fantastically wielded foil that simply keeps you engaged. For me, this is a top tier flick.
Studio execs really screwed it up for this one. Originally called Edge of Tomorrow they had some genius idea that mid release they would rename it "Live Die Repeat" which is such a dumb title.
@@TearDownGenesis Yes, this also reminds me of when John Carter From Mars came out and the execs just called it John Carter, wth, it was actually a decent movie that no one seems to know about.
I do think Edge is 100x better than Oblivion though. Oblivion is good for a one time watch, but it doesn't hold up as well multiple viewings, whereas Edge of Tomorrow is always a treat. I think it is easily in his top 3 best movies.
My theory is that both Edge of Tomorrow and Oblivion had multiple endings filmed, and they went with the one that tested best in focus groups. The average viewer preferred the dumb happy ending. But I think both would have made more sense with the sacrifice for the greater good ending. In Edge of Tomorrow, how does the dead Omega reset the day? In Oblivion, how could the Tet analyze his heart rate and breathing patterns but not detect a whole Morgan Freeman right there on board? Why even risk the entire plan for that?
@@JasonHauser125I enjoyed Oblivion, but it felt like a really good quality B movie. It seemed like all the ideas had been done previously in other movies.
"His Scientology puts a LOT of people off" Well I feel the same with any religion but that doesn't make me judge people who are actually religious,even though what they believe is completely insane to me,it's their choice and I don't pay their bills to tell them how they should live.
To explain the ending: the first time Cruise's character died, it was the claymore vs Alpha scene around the morning of Operation Downfall. The day reset to 24 hours prior each time. In the end, the grenades blew up the Omega and he died along with it much earlier in the morning of Operation Downfall & the blood from it mingled with his as it happened. It reset the day but not the aliens, so it brings him back to the morning of the day before, just before he met the general & tried to blackmail him, so he still had his rank When the blood mingles with his, he has the power to reset the day, not the aliens, which is why he was hunted at the dam
The distinction between the first and the second one is that he first gets it from an Alpha, which is not the actual source of the power, it's more like a walking reset point for the omega (an alpha is like a feeler that the omega stretches out into world probing and learning), and that's what Cage became for most of the movie. The second time he literally kills the omega and steals its power (which is probably a power like "sending the gathered information from the alphas back to the alphas"), so when the final reset happens (due to any alpha anywhere dying), the omega now gives up, since it is unable to make use of the alphas who are probably just running into the same deaths over and over, not seeing them coming and forever resetting.
@@AdeptCharon that's correct, the Alpha's more of a messenger that provides feedback to the Omega as it dies, and the Omega resets the day. So as he absorbed the Alpha's blood, the Omega probably kept mistaking his signature as that of an Alpha, which is why it kept resetting the day when he died, and why it tried to track him down. That's why a blood transfusion alters the signature. My theory was that with the Omega's blood mingling with his, it stands to reason his blood signature is now that of an Omega's. The real Omega could've reset the day one last time but only Cage travelled back alive since his blood signature was that of the Omega's, meaning the Omega in Paris the day before Operation Downfall did technically reset but was dead upon arrival, and took out the rest of the aliens phantom menace style
But since it provided this new reset does that mean that he will have to now continually reset, unless of course he just gets a blood transfusion which would stop the process.
All you need is kill is the only manga I've ever had an interest in reading and have read. It isn't very long and was ok. The movie takes a wildly different direction and is better for it imo. Highschool teen type dramas isn't my thing. Tho, I did appreciate the ending of the manga.
"Bloody hell, it's the Full Metal Bitch!" Fun Fact: The soldier that says this and is punched by Emily Blunt, is her real-life younger brother. Historical Allegory Fact: The film was released in the U.S. on June 6, 2014, the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day invasion during World War II. The film shares many similarities to the attack on Normandy Beach. Uniquely, it premiered in two sequential events, designed to mirror the D-Day landings within the exact timeline of the historic event. Lost In Adaptation Fact: In the movie, Rita (Emily Blunt) appreciates having coffee at the farmhouse. This is a nod to her character in the book, who is a coffee lover and had been introduced to coffee at an early age by her coffee addict father. In the world of the book, where coffee growing has virtually ceased because of the Mimic invasion and people drink artificial substitutes, Rita still has some supplies of exotic real coffee beans and her only personal possession is a coffee grinder.
Vkunia says that the character deserved being hit, but if a woman walked up to a guy in a mech suit and said "It's the Full Metal Dick" and he hit her with the mech suit's fist, I don't think people would think very highly of the man. So why do people react differently here?
Oh, the more times I see this movie and reactions to it, the more impressed I am with the relationship plot line. The idea that. or cage has spent hundreds or maybe even thousands of days with Rita but she is only spent one day with him is such an amazing structure. He cares deeply for her and is even falling in love with her. It’s completely understandable. From his perspective, they’ve been through so much together. She saved him countless times, and vice versa. He’s been through trauma with her and seen her go through trauma as well. They’ve shared the same goals and missions and values. but to Rita, he’s a guy she met earlier that day. Even when she understands what his experience has been, she cannot have had that experience herself. There’s something so beautiful yet tragic about the situation.
And the conversation with Rita in the car makes it even more tragic. In Verdun Rita had to see her brother die over and over again. And now the roles are reversed and her repeated deaths are the cause of the suffering, despair even! How to win AND save her life?
Well written and agree totally! And the evidence is It's more like tens of thousands of repeats. In one version of Trailer, he even says (in the house) "For me, it's been an eternity". I hate that they cut that dialog.
But she's had the power before, and she knows how many times he must have watched her die, and she knows that he's trying to stop her dying on the final mission, by keeping her back. She's not in love with him, but she kisses him because - well, you do on a first date, don't you?
Fun fact. This movie is based on a japanese manga called "all you need is kill". I'd highly recommend it to everyone, even though the story is vastly different from the movie. Its a very dark, psychological story that explores the mental battle of the main character as he becomes more and more divorced from reality with each repeat. He is stuck in the loop for so long, he forgets what his life was like before it. Ive never read anything else quite like it.
I legit prefer this over his other sci-fi movie Oblivion. Tom Cruise doing cowardly yelping and running before becoming a full-on badass is extremely satisfying.
The movie is often called: "Groundhog Day with aliens" but that's not a bad description. It absolutely is and is excellent. Without a doubt one of the best Sci-Fi action movie ever. I personally would warmly recommend it to anyone, a must see.
1. The other soldiers don't want Cage to know how to disable his safety because he is untrained, has been given a powerful weapon, and has been thrust into a "stressful situation." Statistically speaking, he was _much_ more likely to accidentally kill another soldier than he was a Mimic. Honestly, I'm amazed they gave him ammo at all - I wouldn't have. 2. My weird, favorite thing to point out: when Cage tries to roll under the truck the first time from pushups and he gets run over, he doesn't die right away. We know this because there was just enough time for Ferrell and the rest of the squad to react to him getting hit. 3. I get why Cage tells everyone to "take a hit for the team" if they're about to be killed by an Alpha, but it actually poses an interesting free will question. Let's say you were the last surviving member of J Squad on that suicide mission and there was an Alpha barreling down on you. If you let it kill you, the mission fails right then and there and Earth is doomed. If you kill it, the day resets, but you have no memory of it - still, J Squad gets another shot at killing the Omega, because Cage would still remember everything up until that point, same as how Rita still remembers all the times she reset the day after she lost the power. So here's the free will part: absent the memory of what you did before, are you doomed to make all the same choices again and thus inevitably fail again? Or, is it possible that you might randomly make a different decision than the one you made on your last run, and thus possibly eke out a victory (implying that free will is indeed a thing)? OR - third possibility - the Mimic's changing strategy _forces_ you to make slightly different decisions than before because circumstances have changed. 4. The ending - I got nothing. I don't understand how the Omega can be dead but a reset still gets triggered anyway. With the Alphas, it made sense: the Alphas were actually meant as trigger mechanisms and what they triggered was the Omega. If the Omega is dead, though, what's performing the reset? Cage? That would imply that all that's needed to do a reset is Omega blood, and if that's the case, then the Omega's...body is one giant tactical mistake. It's big, stationary, and defenseless, like a tree. Why not allow it to move around on its own and/or give it stabby tentacles like the Alphas? UNLESS...what if the Omega _isn't_ what's resetting the day and we just thought it was? What if the Omega is just a Mimic communications hub (relaying signals to ground forces), and something else has the power to reset the day? The Omega might have the same kind of reset-triggering blood as Alphas do because under ordinary circumstances, you'd want to reset when you lose a comm hub. That could mean the Mimic isn't dead and there might be a round 2 to this war.
2. "... and [Cage] gets run over, he doesn't die right away. We know this" Or he _does_ die right away, but we follow that timeline a bit further before snapping back onto Cage's next one. There's precedent -- in the original _Groundhog Day,_ after one of the times Phil kills himself, we get a scene at the morgue, where Rita[!] and Larry identify Phil's dead body before we get the next rendition of "I Got You Babe". 4. Shrug. I figure the Alphas and the Omega trigger time resets _as_ they die, so Cage (and Rita) just lucked out.
Regarding the Mimics' design flaws, they're evolved not engineered because an engineer would give the Omega the ability to reverse time at will and just use Alphas for relaying sensory information. Evolution makes things that are good enough, not optimised. Which is why the Mimics have a couple of glaring flaws.
p. 1,2 great observation! p.3 current state of things in science is that world is non-deterministic, so no fatalism. If we follow this trope, it is possible that choices may be different each time. p.4 cmon this movie needed a happy ending after all the shit people went thru.
4. There's no day reset, omega physicaly travels back in tiem and relays information to alphas. I take that by cage getting mixed in with its blood the omega added him to the network again (as when he first got mixed with alpha blood). This assumes the omega didn't die instantly in the explosion, but managed to go back in time, where it succumbed to its injuries and thus the whole Mimic network went down. By going back in time and relaying the information, Tom Cruise knows what happened, but he doesnt drop like the mimics because he has his own conscience and not only the shared hive mind of the omega.
For pt. 3: My pet theory (after the second time I watched the movie) is that this actually happened. They should have had the element of surprise, but the Mimics seemed to be ready for them. (Their airship was hit well away from the Louvre.) Something probably went wrong the first time; either an Alpha got caught accidentally in a bomb explosion or was deliberately sacrificed by the Omega. By resetting the timeline to try to achieve a "perfect" victory, the Mimic Omega wound up changing things so Cage couldn't make the same decisions, creating the path where he ended up winning.
I remember being absolutely blindsided when this movie got announced, I discovered the manga it was based on about 4 chapters into it's run and I was immediately hooked. I adored that story and followed it religiously, hoping that someday it would get an anime adaptation, never expected it to skip that step and go straight to live action. There are certain aspects of the original that I prefer but all-in-all this was an incredible adaptation and a personal favourite movie of mine.
I wasn't a huge fan of the manga. I listened to the audiobook on the way home from a road trip and it didn't grab me. This movie is one of the extremely rare instances where the movie actually makes a better version of the original story, in my opinion.
The sheer amount of surprisingly well-timed humour throughout this film is the movie's way of communicating to its audience that it knows it's a silly concept and doesn't want to be taken in any way seriously. That's why the ambiguous ending is not only forgivable but actually very fitting. Just the way I interpret things anyway. One of my personal favourites.
One of my favorite movies of the 2010s and it's a close second to James Cameron's "Aliens" as my favorite military sci-fi /space marine movies (it helps that the legendary Bill Paxton is in both). Lot of great scenes in it but my favorite is that montage of Rita killing Cage and the drill sergeant trying to be nice to him afterwards by calling him a maggot (9 years later and it makes me laugh)
Regarding the ending, I think after Cage went back the final time, the Omega died from temporal feedback. Either there can only be one Omega on a planet, so Cage showing up as a second Omega caused the first one to explode, or its death rippled backwards through time due to him traveling back at the moment of its death.
He was labeled as a "deserter" which, in this case, means he is going into the battle unprepared. The plan was for him to be killed in Operation Downfall because he was basically a coward in the eyes of the soldiers and the General. On a different note, this movie visualizes playing a video game, like Halo on Legendary difficulty, where the story is fixed but you die repeatedly until you memorize the enemy movements for every point of every mission... every second counts... until you beat the game.
So Emily Blunt tells a story of making this movie. The steel suit exoskeleton that they wear actually in reality weighs like 70 pounds. Quite heavy. And Emily says it was too much for her, that early in filming she broke down in front of Tom crying and whining about she can't do this, it's too much. And Tom just stands there staring at her for a few moments as she's whining and then Tom says "don't be a f@cken pu$$y". And it was so unexpected and hilarious she broke out laughing and it gave her the strength she needed to go on and complete the movie!
To add to that, when they came back for some extra shots, she was reluctant to do stunt work. Tom asked her what was up and she told him that she was pregnant. Tom was one of the few people at this point outside of her family to know, but totally understood and kept it in confidence.
It's not really important, but Cruise doesn't get demoted at the start of the film. A US soldier can get put under a foreign commander who controls where he is posted, but his rank is given to him by the US Army and they won't let anyone else take it away. The general just decided that instead of the court-martial Cruise deserved, he would have someone he could rely on write up (false) orders saying he was a private and a deserter, in order to force him to actually fight as a more fitting punishment.
37:57 What explanation do you need? He remembered. And he went to Rita as he had been so many times. He gets a chance for her to know him as much as he knows her.
The teary eyes and grin are an indication that how much fun he's gonna have telling Rita Vrataski all the adventures and everything they have been in together and the moment when he will finally reveal her middle name.
What a terrific sci-fi film, one of the best using a time repeating window. Someone suggested watching "Oblivion" & I wholeheartedly second that!! A really unique sci-fi film that I think you'd enjoy. Great reaction, look forward to more.
It's a scifi action packed Groundhog Day movie. No, she doesn't have the authority, he has to keep sneaking away, find her, and go through the whole explanation every time.
The thing about why they don't want him to know how to turn the safety off is they realise he's inexperienced and don't want him to accidentally shoot them, which is harder when you can't turn the safety off
When he died, the Omega blood got into him, meaning that he can now freely control time (without having to die). His memories were certainly intact, and he went back to "introduce" himself to the woman he loved.
I always find it hilarious when the one soldier straps a Claymore to his chest with the iconic words facing out: "FRONT TOWARD ENEMY" (To be clear: if that thing went off, the soldier would be dead no matter what)
Always fun to ask a creator, if they can pinpoint when exactly their opinion of Cruise as an actor changed... because so many of them state they are NOT a fan of Tom on the first couple of reactions, but very very quickly their tune changes and he is like in their top 5 actors of all time. Just setting aside anything from his personal life, he is both an amazing actor and very selective about the movie roles he chooses. Perfect combo to have if you want an extremely successful career.
I am not a fan of Tom Cruise as a person and probably never will be. But whatever I think of the man, I have to admit that he picks fantastic roles. There are so many of his movies that I really like. I know people who haven't watched a Tom Cruise movie since before I was even born because they don't like him and refuse to support his work, but after having seen so many of his movies that I enjoyed, I can't skip them just because Tom Cruise. They might be great.
@@BubblyRainbows You are right to separate the art from the artist. It's easy to become a jerk when you're rich and famous; you don't socialize much with normal people and there might be no one in your life who will say no to you. I'm sure there are a great many filmmakers, actors, musicians, writers, etc. who are unpleasant people. To bypass them all you'd essentially have to opt out of our culture.
@@DavetheGrue You haven't made it far enough past the public stories yet. Cruise is nutty in his beliefs, but he is a nice guy, and dedicated to film making. People with bad stories about working with him share a lot in common. Namely, if you are phoning your acting in on set, Tom can tell, and he will relentlessly attack you for it until you shape up. If you give it your best, he will respect and support you. The covid rant Tom made on the set of Top Gun Maverick was massively misunderstood. He wasn't worried about masks or covid. Tom specifically said in the rant that if people kept treating the mask wearing lightly, that the set would get shut down, and delay production, hurting everyone involved from top to bottom of the actors in the movie. Tom was also responsible for the great shape many of the actors were in, and because of him, at minimum, four of the actors got their pilot's licenses, with Tom himself as a partial instructor. Even in Edge of Tomorrow, Tom pushed Emily hard, yet Emily trusted Tom enough to let him know that she was three months pregnant and had not brought it up out of fear of being replaced. Tom kept her secret, and made sure that she was not in any stunts or scenes that could hurt her baby. After the movie was done, and everything put together, Emily herself talked about how hard he was on her, yet she loved it and he was a good friend.
@@highlander31527 I appreciate your passion and all, but you are responding to something I never said. I said you have to separate the art from the artist. It was a general statement, regardless of whatever anyone thinks about Cruise. I don't know him personally.
The omega resets him hrs earlier, I assume it went with what you were thinking of, so he imagined himself before he was sent to the front. To memorise effectively an entire campaigns worth of battle movements, where to stand, shoot etc, would have been hundreds of days, why they were both so good in battle. I'm guessing he fell in love with her, due to spending so much time with her, & the same goes for her too with Henderson, & from how it plays out, he died again when she got injured, passed out & woke up in hospital, without the power. Emily wants to make a sequel.
The original title for this movie was "Live, Die, Repeat." Also they didn't want to help Cage because they were told that he was a deserter, so most people wont help someone that has a proven recorder of not doing what they should.
Great movie. Other great time travel movies are The Butterfly Effect and Frequency. Also another great Tom Cruise movie which is not reacted at all is the first Jack Reacher movie.
It’s fun seeing Tom Cruise start off as such a coward in this movie, and then gradually grow into a bad ass over the course of the film, it’s a cool change of pace from his normal roles, and just a cool character arch
Love this movie, I call it Groundhog Day on steroids.😉 Notice how both love interest in both movies were named "Rita", I think they did this as a way to pay tribute and say thanks for the Idea. The happiest ending, Tom Cruise's next line to Rita......"Can I buy you a cup of coffee and tell you how we saved the world".
I know the biggest thing about this film is that it was based on a Japanese light novel, and I get that, but the thing that I appreciated the most is that it served to commemorate the D-Day landings in World War 2. It was even released on their 70th anniversary (a week earlier in the UK). Also, can we appreciate that this film has now become a way of describing Tom Cruise's entire acting career? For his first 15 years, outside of the original Top Gun and Days of Thunder, he wasn't that much of an action star. His dedication to his work has increased by the year since the first Mission Impossible movie in 1996, just like his character here became better skilled with each loop, to the point that he has done his own insane stunts for many years now.
I think that the adaptation of taking a novel written as taking place in Japan, and transplanting that to Britain, a different island nation across the globe, was also a really smart thing to do as well. It's kind of an obvious choice in hindsight really, but it the sort of thing I can imagine another creative lead doing a really poor job at, or doing something else entirely. And as you said, this adaptation serves to commemorate the D-day landings with this choice too.
Interesting you should mention feeling anxious about the sound during the intro. Originally there was an ultra low frequency (ULF) droning sound playing in that sequence that could be felt more than heard, and is said to induce anxiety. The home release was changed once the 4K blu-ray came along (I think) because the first version blew up some consumer subwoofers due the the sustained ULF in that part of the movie. It still goes low, just not as low. Awesome movie by the way, glad you watched it :-)
Here is the thing about snacks during the reaction. We enjoy watching you check out our favorite movies. It's a great time, pretty much why we are all here. Problem is if you don't have snacks then we feel self conscious about eating snacks when we can't really offer to share with you. So if WE ALL are having snacks it's a GREAT TIME while watching a great movie. Make sense? 😁
There is another reaction channel I like called Popcorn in Bed where, as the title suggests, the reactor eats popcorn while reacting to the movie. At least she used to! Unfortunately Cassie received complaints from viewers that her crunching was annoying and distracting so she doesn't really do it anymore. 🍿 Fun Fact: Recently she and her sister Carly (who sometimes reacts with her) were invited to attend the premier of the new Mission Impossible and had their picture taken with Tom Cruise! They were even featured on Access Hollywood! (Sorry about plugging another channel Vicky 🥴 You're still the best😃👍 Love ya!)
@@PlumbPitiful Hello, if I need a snack, I have snack. Vicky if you need a snack have a snack. If your audience wants quiet snacks have some ice cream. I would.
Yeah exactly, it'd be kinda lame to find it bothering when people have snacks while watching a movie. I just don't get people who won't stop bickering about the most minor things. Yet so good of Vkunia to ask her audience.
To me the ending means Cage has newly retained the power. So...I like to imagine Cage and Rita getting together after this, having a bunch of kids, growing old, and when Cage is on his deathbed surrounded by his great grandchildren: "I love all of yo--" SNAP CUT He's back on the helicopter 😂 "Hmmm wonder is Nance from J Squad is single...."
@@michaeljacyna1973 I completely agree. But from a biological standpoint, he IS the omega now. And the Omega resets the day when AN Alpha dies, but it seems to be something that the Omega can choose to do and use as an offensive weapon. There are no Alphas left, so is there a reason to reset the day anymore? Yes, maybe it's part of their biology, but I wonder if that instinct is something that the Mimics controlled - and maybe he has, too.
@@spdcrzy Interesting point. But I would think as a human unintentionally inheriting the ability, it would likely be a surprise, much like the first time was a surprise. And if such a choice is true, would take some practice to figure it out. I think he at least gets to live two seperate lifetimes, minimum LOL
Its Quantum Entanglement, he wasn't technically traveling back in time but the electrical synapses that are basically our consciousness routing back information from the future, in other words he was just remembering the future. now how did him killing the omega reset the timeline? again Quantum entanglement, while he destroyed it in the future the omega was existing simultaneously Past Present and Future so by killing it he basically reset all the actions the Omega had done from the point of Cage landing in the helicopter, why to that point, well at the end he absorbed the Omega's blood so its safe to say that Cage was in control (Subconsciously albeit) as to what point he wished that it would be rest to. At least this is my view on it idk i may be way off and it could just be like a video game and he re-spawned at a save point lol.
Ending explanation (from what I can gather): The Mimics are 4 dimensional beings that exist across a 24hr period, so killing the Omega in the present killed it in the past.
@@TomH2681 i think the problem would be that they don't have something to guide them like in the first movie (they based it of a novel called "all you need is kill") leading to a possible bad script
37:43 Explanation: ♫ I need to know now, know now. Can you love me again? ♫ (Tom Cruise gained ability from Ω to go back several days. Even in an alien army, decision-making are shared in levels).
Boss Level is another fun time loop movie, and they really go all in on the video-gaminess of the loops. Source Code - despite the terrible name - is another good take on the genre.
I remember watching a time loop movie where a guy is being sent back in time to stop a train with a nuke on it from reaching the city the time machine is in. Every loop in the past uses up time in the present and if the nuke goes off in the city, the time machine will be destroyed. So he only has a limited number of loops to get it right.
@@kryptonianguest1903 Better than this, Source Code is not only a good time loop movie, it's also an explanation how we can be transferrd to another life when we die. It's fringe esoterist sci-fi but damn it's inspiring. If you can experience another life, you can live that other life. Consciousness is boundless.
The Omega realized invading would lead to its death, so it reset far enough back to abort the entire thing with minimal casualties to its forces, and the energy surge was probably from it getting the heck out of dodge by space travel or some such thing.
@@DaveH82 just like she said in the video. He wins the war by destroying the thingy, gets covered by the time accid again. Gets thrown back in time, not 1 day but even more days where the war should be in full swing again, but no. All of a suden the war is over in the past as well?! It would make sense that the war will be over in the future where he dies while destroying the thingy, not in the past where all this still has to take place... Its a plot hole and i understand why they did it. They lost on a technicality, but it was needed to get a nice roundup to the plot arc consistent with the upbeat style of the movie.... great action flick, good humor
Not really hard to understand the ending. If the omega controls time then you'd have to assume the omega exists outside the realm of time. You'd also have to assume each time an alpha dies the omega resetting the day is more of a "bodily" impulse reaction. If alphas are the "nervous system" of the omega then the omega dying would also impulse reset the day. So Cruise blows up omega, gets covered in its blood, omega dies and resets day, Cruise is back a few hours before he met the General which is a few hours before the original reset point throughout the movie, since omega exists outside of realm of time his injuries persist and it dies, the day is reset with omega and all other mimicks dead as mimicks are part of the omega. Not hard to understand
@@Lukasgate I have a different take on it. When Cage killed the Alpha, he became an Alpha. When Cage dies, the Omega resets the day. By that logic, when Cage killed the Omega, he became the Omega. He now has the power to reset time. Cage being the Omega, means there is no other Omega, so when he resets time, the Omega ceases to exist from the moment he reset to, creating the electromagnetic pulse that kills all the Mimics. If the Omega had reset time when it died, they'd have to start all over again.
The book explains it a little differently (SPOILERS AHEAD) When an Alpha (or a human infused with Alpha blood) dies, it doesn’t exactly reset the day. It sends all of their memories of that day back in time to themselves, the day before. They live through it again, then send the next memories back. It repeats until the war is done. So, in the timeline, Cage actually defeated the Omega only once, using the memories of having played through it hundreds of times. Once the Omega was defeated, the repeat loop ended.
Tom Cruise has four solid scifi films to his credit, and this is one of them. Edge of Tomorrow, Oblivion, Minority Report, and War of the Worlds. He has a fifth scifi movie, but it's not action. It's more of an art film. Not bad, but not what you'd think for Tom Cruise. It's Vanilla Sky. And if you want to see him joke about his Mission Impossible role, try Knight and Day.
This is based on a manga light novel called All You Need is Kill. Took Cruise is called Cage in this, in the light novel the character was named Keiji.
The way i see the ending is that the Omega is actually a creature out of time, basically It exists at all times at the same time, thats what when It died in the "future" It also died in the past. That could explain how they retain memories from the posible futures too
22:00 "His body isn't resting. He needs to eat and drink and sleep." His body is different every time. I mean, he gets crushed, shot, blown up, but then he wakes up with none of those injuries. In fact, when he wakes up, he was JUST SLEEPING. So each day his new body is fed and rested and ready to go. Soldiers get to eat, so he probably has meals during that day like all the other soldiers. And since his body only has to last one day, or less, he's physically fine each day with his new, well-rested body. The only thing in doubt is if his mind (not brain, but the mind itself) gets fatigued. Since he has all his memories and experiences carried to his new body each day, that means his mind is processing all of this constantly without resting or sleeping in between. That might be a problem. Until we can test mental fatigue in time-loops in laboratory conditions, we may never know.
20:20 "So he's made a game plan." Yes. "And he's training her because that's the most efficient way?" No. She can't remember any of this. Only he can. So he's discussing it with her because she's the expert. Then when they really are on the beach, only he remembers the conversations so he has to tell her everything to do.
How are you explained it is kind of how I see it, the Omega was trying one last ditch attempt to reset the day for itself and move positions, however the bomb went off first so all that energized blood was in the water and latched onto the last living thing there, which just so happen to be Tom Cruise
It is an exo suit. Mechs are things depicted in the movie "Pacific Rim" and games such as Mech Warriors. An exo suit is a hydraulic frame assisting the frail human body while a mech is a self propelled assault vehicle usually depicting human form possessing two to four legs and a pilot.
This is such an underrated movie. I absolutely love it. Seeing Cage go from total noob to hardened war vet is moving for me. Yet he still manages to fall in love with Rita. Imagine losing someone you care about, then imagine doing it every day for what may have been a year or more. I like the ambiguity regarding how many times he actually died. After a while all that would start to blur together. As for the ending, given that the Omega can reset the day and regained the ability when Cage lost it, I assume it either reset the day one more time in a last ditch effort to avoid defeat and it backfired, or because Cage was dying and got the blood on him that he gained the power one more time right before he died, just as in the beginning. The of course he goes to see Rita and he smiles knowing he already knows so much about her and he actually gets the chance to be with her and not watch her die over and over.
I think a lot of people are just surprised that they would want an ineffective soldier on their side during the invasion, and so their minds don't immediately go to a darker place. Personally, I always just assumed they didn't show him where the safety was because if he was really a coward committed to getting out of fighting, he could potentially kill all of them and make a run for it.
It’s basic. The omega resets on automatic based on connection with its alphas. In the last seconds Cage reconnected and caused a reset with one last breath from the dying omega.
in answer to your question, you are right, it does not make any sense from what little we've been told in the movie that Tom Cruise would have been sent all the way back to when he arrived in England. Nor did it make any sense that the war would have ended then rather than later that night when the Omega was taken out. My guess is that it was simply the place the director felt would provide the best ending. I did really enjoy though your thinking that it was the French that were defending the Louvre from Tom Cruise and his gang. As to the way we were left hanging as to whether there was going to be any future romantic interactions with Rita and Cage you may soon find out as I understand there have been several talks a sequel.
A few other commenters have explained it already. If you've already seen their explanations, then I'm sorry for repeating them. Basically, Tom Cruise lost the power before the invasion, and during the night before the invasion, he convinces J Squad to follow Rita and him to the Louvre. Then, in the early hours of the morning he kills the Omega and absorbs its blood. However, the new start time for resetting the day is now the late night/early morning of the day before the invasion, instead of during the invasion. And we know from the first time, that when he was killed on the beach, every time the day restarted, it started about 24 hours _before_ the time he died. So, with the new start point being the morning before the invasion, 24 hours earlier would have been a day earlier than that, which is about when he was flying into London to meet with the General. Meaning he still has his rank and the others in his squad are alive. It's not immediately obvious, but if you look at how the movie plays out and kind of play it out in your head from the new start time, it really does make sense.
@@BubblyRainbows OK I'll buy that. And thanks for sharing. But there are now 1,000 timeloop paradoxes that pop up by sending him back to a new reality before the Omega was killed. Like why should the war have even ended if the Omega is still alive and no mission has yet been sent to destroy it? Seems to me as though Cruise got extremely lucky killing it the first time. And if needed, who knows whether he could duplicate that effort commencing from a new starting point? So the Omega obviously gave up too quickly. Or was the Omega now dead having been killed by future Tom Cruise? You see it is a real hornet's nest with no satsifying way to tie up all the loose ends when you look too deep. And the only truly logical way to resolve everything I believe would be if Tom Cruis was not sent back in time and the war simply ended with the death of the Omega. But that of course would not have been the dramatic ending the producers needed so so much for logic.
@@itt23r I haven't been able to find the original comment talking about this, but what I once was told was that the Omega basically sits in a time rift, half in today and half in yesterday. When one of the Alphas dies, the Omega closes the gate in the current day and is just back in yesterday, allowing it to open a new gate and do it all again. They said something about Tom Cruise being close enough to be reinfected with its blood meaning he was within the gateway when it collapsed, so he was sent back to the earlier time, etc. I apologize for not being able to recite specifics. I saw the original post 6 months ago, maybe more. I only remember the gist of it. I think they said it was explained in the book? But I could be misremembering. As for my own thoughts about the time travel thing: I believe where you make your mistake is in mentioning alternate realities. It never says the reset is an alternate reality. Again, this is just my theory, it's never confirmed anywhere that I know of, but it seems to me that in this movie's universe, you need to treat time like an old video game. Basically, the Omega saves the game the day before the battle, and then keeps playing. When its Alpha dies, it resets the game and loads up its last save, so it can try again for better results. But the reset doesn't send it to an alternate reality or anything, it literally just overwrites the current save with the reload, the way old video games used to when they had limited save slots. When Tom Cruise kills the Omega and gets caught up in its blood, he once again steals control of the ability to reset the game, and the Omega can't go back because this time, instead of its Alpha's reset being stolen, its entire save was stolen since it itself is kind of like the console. So, Tom goes back to yesterday, the Omega stays stuck in today, and when Tom wakes up, he overwrites the save and continues on. Thus the Omega is permanently gone, since it wasn't able to be reloaded into the new save while it was trapped in tomorrow. Either that, or when the reload occurs, the Omega is loaded as a dead Omega because without its power it couldn't reset itself during the reload. Just my theory on it. If messing with time just overwrites any previous timelines, it eliminates a lot of the plot holes in time travel movies. And I believe it eliminates all of the plot holes in this specific movie. But I could be wrong. I haven't read the book or manga or whatever, so I could definitely be missing key information.
@@BubblyRainbows Yeah but simply because someone came up with a way of explaining it, it does not follow that it makes sense. A time rift?! Really?! Oh of course, if there was a time rift!! Simply stated, when you start talking about time travel into the past you have to resort to crazy talk because there is no way to do it without producing a ton of temporal paradoxes. The only way around it is to invoke the even nuttier multiverse theory. But if you do that you end up with the humans losing the war thousands of times in thousands of alternative universes until they finally get it right. Is that the satisfying ending you think audiences would love? I do undersand the concept of the timeloop though, as ridiculous as it is portrayed. No need to explain that. But the only way you can really make sense of getting out of one while dealing with only one reality is by exiting into the future, not into the past. And I doubt there is any way you are going to convince me otherwise. Thanks though for the info. I'm happy to see that they at least tried to explain it.
@@itt23r Well, as I said, the first explanation wasn't originally mine, and it's been too long since I read it to remember all the intricate details. But I thought they said it was explained in the book, so if it really matters to you, you could try there. I don't find this movie at all confusing when dealing with only a single timeline. It works perfectly the way I worked it out, but maybe I didn't explain it well. However, since you said you won't be convinced, I won't continue to use up your time by trying. I appreciate your honesty and directness. I hope you have a great week. ✌🤓
Groundhog Day At War is not a movie I ever would've expected to exist but it came out all those years ago and it was incredible No wasted scenes, flow was near perfect, you can tell right away when he starts "skipping" resets, etc. Easily in my top ten
22:00 His body is as rested as it was the first day. The thing that would be a problem is he is physically restarting too. So only his memory of moves is improving, but not like the training is giving him muscles or endurance.
When the Omega was killed and Cage died with the Omega blood on him, the day was reset (because Cage died) to the beginning of the chain of events that started the path of the Omega's destruction. He had killed the Omega earlier in the morning and the control of the Omega over time was lost since it was dead and there were no Alphas alive to trigger the reset (since they all died when the Omega was killed). That's why he didn't reset to the FOB day when he was introduced to J squad. Because he never went into combat with J squad where he would die with the Alpha, he reset to the helicopter flight where his initial involvement began. It was the only time reference left to reset to.
Quick easy explain for ending . When Cage had the ALPHA power he was considered like and ALPHA to the OMEGA , the OMEGA reset the day as soon an ALPHA dies , But after all that .The Omega reset time like he want , When cage got the Omega blood on him , He was the only one with the power to reset so he did unconsciously to were he was safe and sound , but the omega is still dead because its Cage who did the reset , not the omega . ( Sorry for my bad english , hope it made sense)
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My personal theory is that the mimics' blood actually travels back in time and goes back to its host but when the blood is 'transferred' it goes back to the last host, i.e. the person who killed the mimic and got impregnated. Since the human can't control the time travel power, he/she goes back to his/her last time sleeping and the respective mimic just gets drained of blood and dies at the same time. That explains all the times Cage got back to the morning of the invasion but when he finally killed the Omega and the blood tried to go back to the last time he was asleep, it found that slot used by the Alpha's blood, and it goes back another slot to the helicopter. The blood was transferred, the Omega was drained, and it died with all the hive
The manga this is based on is called "All You Need Is Kill" its a great read. I think they really nailed the premise of this movie and really did a good job with the whole "groundhog's day" thing. one of the better takes on it.
omega tried to reset to an earlier day but it wasnt fast enough while dying. blood got mixed up and the reset happened - but because it was already dying in the "future" it died in the past too.
What is a Mecca suit? An exoskeleton one wears to go on pilgrimage? This reminds me so much of the "Mystery Spot" episode in season 3 of Supernatural (where someone kept dying over & over & over).
In the end it was not the security of France taking it seriously 😂. It was all the guarding mimics around the Louvre protecting their omega. My ending explanation is that the after the alpha died in the omega explosion the blood from the alpha allowed Tom's character to reset the time one last time to a point a bit further back in time but another reality, just when he was in that helicopter again. And in this reality the omega destruction just has happened (maybe it was Rita doing it herself this time?) before he was trying to blackmail the general. The only difference is that now he's no longer the sleazy marketing guy but a battle hardened man with character.
This is my favorite time loop movie. It's also a Tom Cruise film in which Tom Cruise tries to be less of his usual characters. Fun Fact-Operation: Downfall was the name for the proposed invasion of the Japanese Home Islands in WWII. It was an unused plan because Japan surrendered after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
They don't tell him about the safety because if he doesn't know where it is then he's so untrained that they think if he shoots he'll be more of a danger to them than the enemy,
explain the alien dying in the "future." This is usually the case in most stuff dealing with time travel... once there is a being that can control or travel through time, when they die, they die in every existence in time past present and future. So while they did kill it in the future it can no longer live in the past because it's basically living in every moment in time
"Find me when you wake up" is the best line in this film. When i heard it i immediately knew that this movie is gonna be awesome
" What the Hell were you thinking? " - Master Sargeant Farell
@@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710 “You told me NOT to think!”
- Rooster
Cage's "How many times?" was not explored enough.
@@warpviix: we need to go deeper
@@warpviixit will be a long series with 20 episodes minimum
Quick ending explanation as I interpret it: The other 'resets' were from the blood of the blue guys but the brain of the omega was still alive. When he got the omega blood on him at the end, the big brain was dead and the reset was more... uncontrolled and the aliens didn't reset with it (they had no unifying brain). The Omega was dead so it couldn't reset. Tom still had the memories (shown by his reset confusion) and when he met Emily's character at the end, the assumption is that he gives her the entire story and he can at least take her out to dinner or something. Happily ever after.
"The Omega was dead so it couldn't reset."
Yes, that's it exactly. He got the blood on him so he could go back, but the Omega died and could not continue. Since the Omega also was the brains of the aliens, they all died when the Omega died.
There's no real evidence in the film to back this up, so far as I remember, but I always kind of liked the idea that killing the alpha lets you temporarily take control of the Omega's power, whereas killing the Omega GIVES you the power, which means Cage could theoretically find a way for Rita to exist long enough to know him as well as he knows her. He doesn't just get the day. He gets ALL the time he lost. Maybe just me. I'm a romantic.
My interpretation is that the Omega was working from a 'baseline', so it existed at that point in time and the future. When Tom Cruise died, the Omega's blood carried him back to the 'baseline' as the last connection of the Omega, but as the Omega existed at all points in time, dying in one killed it in all, so now it is dead along with the minions
Also they deliberately changed the ending of the book for the holywood audience.
@@martind5653The movie is pretty different from the manga already, but I thought they did a good job. There's been talk for years about a sequel but I don't know where they could go with it and still make it interesting AND plausible.
This is definitely an underrated movie. It is probably the most intelligent use of the time travel trope in recent years, and rather than use it as a crutch, it is a fantastically wielded foil that simply keeps you engaged. For me, this is a top tier flick.
Studio execs really screwed it up for this one. Originally called Edge of Tomorrow they had some genius idea that mid release they would rename it "Live Die Repeat" which is such a dumb title.
well they are making another one called Live Die Repeat and Repeat, it is in development, Tom and Emily are in it according to IMDB
@@TearDownGenesis If nothing else, it's a very compact case study in great and bad titles.
and is based on an anime.
@@TearDownGenesis Yes, this also reminds me of when John Carter From Mars came out and the execs just called it John Carter, wth, it was actually a decent movie that no one seems to know about.
This film is a whole sci-fi film on another level and a great adaptation. Oblivion is another overlooked Tom Cruise movie that is pretty good
I do think Edge is 100x better than Oblivion though. Oblivion is good for a one time watch, but it doesn't hold up as well multiple viewings, whereas Edge of Tomorrow is always a treat. I think it is easily in his top 3 best movies.
I 2nd that. Oblivion is a great movie
The best anime / manga adaptations are the ones that most people don't know they are adaptations.
My theory is that both Edge of Tomorrow and Oblivion had multiple endings filmed, and they went with the one that tested best in focus groups. The average viewer preferred the dumb happy ending. But I think both would have made more sense with the sacrifice for the greater good ending. In Edge of Tomorrow, how does the dead Omega reset the day? In Oblivion, how could the Tet analyze his heart rate and breathing patterns but not detect a whole Morgan Freeman right there on board? Why even risk the entire plan for that?
@@JasonHauser125I enjoyed Oblivion, but it felt like a really good quality B movie. It seemed like all the ideas had been done previously in other movies.
Tom Cruise is an enigma. His Scientology puts a LOT of people off, including me, yet, he's an incredible actor, especially in action roles.
And indeed non-action roles like A few good men.
But he’s of the era where keeping your personal religion & politics off the screen was more the norm and just play the part.
"His Scientology puts a LOT of people off"
Well I feel the same with any religion but that doesn't make me judge people who are actually religious,even though what they believe is completely insane to me,it's their choice and I don't pay their bills to tell them how they should live.
Buddy, his whole carrer is about lying in front of a camera, pretending to be things he isn't. Think on that.
He left scientology, mainly because it ruined his marriage
Best thing about the movie is the editing. Flows so well and cuts out any fluff - gets right to the point.
So very true. There isn't a moment where you go "Yeah yeah yeah. I've seen this already." It's perfectly paced.
To explain the ending: the first time Cruise's character died, it was the claymore vs Alpha scene around the morning of Operation Downfall. The day reset to 24 hours prior each time.
In the end, the grenades blew up the Omega and he died along with it much earlier in the morning of Operation Downfall & the blood from it mingled with his as it happened. It reset the day but not the aliens, so it brings him back to the morning of the day before, just before he met the general & tried to blackmail him, so he still had his rank
When the blood mingles with his, he has the power to reset the day, not the aliens, which is why he was hunted at the dam
But why did the Alpha die in the past?
The distinction between the first and the second one is that he first gets it from an Alpha, which is not the actual source of the power, it's more like a walking reset point for the omega (an alpha is like a feeler that the omega stretches out into world probing and learning), and that's what Cage became for most of the movie.
The second time he literally kills the omega and steals its power (which is probably a power like "sending the gathered information from the alphas back to the alphas"), so when the final reset happens (due to any alpha anywhere dying), the omega now gives up, since it is unable to make use of the alphas who are probably just running into the same deaths over and over, not seeing them coming and forever resetting.
I knew it had something to do with the him absorbing the Omega's blood. Makes perfect sense what you said
@@AdeptCharon that's correct, the Alpha's more of a messenger that provides feedback to the Omega as it dies, and the Omega resets the day. So as he absorbed the Alpha's blood, the Omega probably kept mistaking his signature as that of an Alpha, which is why it kept resetting the day when he died, and why it tried to track him down. That's why a blood transfusion alters the signature.
My theory was that with the Omega's blood mingling with his, it stands to reason his blood signature is now that of an Omega's. The real Omega could've reset the day one last time but only Cage travelled back alive since his blood signature was that of the Omega's, meaning the Omega in Paris the day before Operation Downfall did technically reset but was dead upon arrival, and took out the rest of the aliens phantom menace style
But since it provided this new reset does that mean that he will have to now continually reset, unless of course he just gets a blood transfusion which would stop the process.
This movie's criminally underrated & I hear real good stuff about the Manga it's based on too, also RIP Bill Paxton
All you need is kill is the only manga I've ever had an interest in reading and have read. It isn't very long and was ok. The movie takes a wildly different direction and is better for it imo. Highschool teen type dramas isn't my thing. Tho, I did appreciate the ending of the manga.
The manga is meh is only very conceptual. The story is almost non existant. the only thing that made it special is its concept
@@morgoth9671how do you mean the story is non existent in the manga
@@YonkoAgenda it's really poor, short and doesn't really go anywhere.
It's only in two volumes and by the time you grasp the concept it's over
It's actually not based on the manga! It's based on the original light novel from 2004, and the manga was released in early 2014
"Bloody hell, it's the Full Metal Bitch!"
Fun Fact: The soldier that says this and is punched by Emily Blunt, is her real-life younger brother.
Historical Allegory Fact: The film was released in the U.S. on June 6, 2014, the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day invasion during World War II. The film shares many similarities to the attack on Normandy Beach. Uniquely, it premiered in two sequential events, designed to mirror the D-Day landings within the exact timeline of the historic event.
Lost In Adaptation Fact: In the movie, Rita (Emily Blunt) appreciates having coffee at the farmhouse. This is a nod to her character in the book, who is a coffee lover and had been introduced to coffee at an early age by her coffee addict father. In the world of the book, where coffee growing has virtually ceased because of the Mimic invasion and people drink artificial substitutes, Rita still has some supplies of exotic real coffee beans and her only personal possession is a coffee grinder.
Vkunia says that the character deserved being hit, but if a woman walked up to a guy in a mech suit and said "It's the Full Metal Dick" and he hit her with the mech suit's fist, I don't think people would think very highly of the man. So why do people react differently here?
R.I.P. #AlanTuring.
Oh, the more times I see this movie and reactions to it, the more impressed I am with the relationship plot line. The idea that. or cage has spent hundreds or maybe even thousands of days with Rita but she is only spent one day with him is such an amazing structure. He cares deeply for her and is even falling in love with her. It’s completely understandable. From his perspective, they’ve been through so much together. She saved him countless times, and vice versa. He’s been through trauma with her and seen her go through trauma as well. They’ve shared the same goals and missions and values. but to Rita, he’s a guy she met earlier that day. Even when she understands what his experience has been, she cannot have had that experience herself. There’s something so beautiful yet tragic about the situation.
And the conversation with Rita in the car makes it even more tragic. In Verdun Rita had to see her brother die over and over again. And now the roles are reversed and her repeated deaths are the cause of the suffering, despair even! How to win AND save her life?
Well written and agree totally!
And the evidence is It's more like tens of thousands of repeats. In one version of Trailer, he even says (in the house) "For me, it's been an eternity". I hate that they cut that dialog.
But she's had the power before, and she knows how many times he must have watched her die, and she knows that he's trying to stop her dying on the final mission, by keeping her back. She's not in love with him, but she kisses him because - well, you do on a first date, don't you?
@@BenjWarrant Knowing is not the same as feeling, tho. And even more; she loved her brother _before_ the day even started looping.
@@Alvin-1138 It's not an argument; that's my view.
Fun fact. This movie is based on a japanese manga called "all you need is kill". I'd highly recommend it to everyone, even though the story is vastly different from the movie.
Its a very dark, psychological story that explores the mental battle of the main character as he becomes more and more divorced from reality with each repeat. He is stuck in the loop for so long, he forgets what his life was like before it. Ive never read anything else quite like it.
I legit prefer this over his other sci-fi movie Oblivion. Tom Cruise doing cowardly yelping and running before becoming a full-on badass is extremely satisfying.
It's a significantly better movie than Oblivion
Oblivion was not a very solid film.
I prefer Oblivion actually. I just like that asthetic better and the time loop thing gets a little tiring.
Minority Report and Vanilla Sky called and said: "What are we...chopped liver?"
@@philproffitt8363 I'm not disregarding his earlier (and still great) scifi movies. Edge and Oblivion just happened to be within close release dates.
Who doesn't love a montage of Tom Cruise dying for the whole length of a movie?! 🤣
Somebody said 'People who love him will love the movie, people who hate him... will love the movie.'
The movie is often called: "Groundhog Day with aliens" but that's not a bad description.
It absolutely is and is excellent.
Without a doubt one of the best Sci-Fi action movie ever.
I personally would warmly recommend it to anyone, a must see.
1. The other soldiers don't want Cage to know how to disable his safety because he is untrained, has been given a powerful weapon, and has been thrust into a "stressful situation." Statistically speaking, he was _much_ more likely to accidentally kill another soldier than he was a Mimic. Honestly, I'm amazed they gave him ammo at all - I wouldn't have.
2. My weird, favorite thing to point out: when Cage tries to roll under the truck the first time from pushups and he gets run over, he doesn't die right away. We know this because there was just enough time for Ferrell and the rest of the squad to react to him getting hit.
3. I get why Cage tells everyone to "take a hit for the team" if they're about to be killed by an Alpha, but it actually poses an interesting free will question. Let's say you were the last surviving member of J Squad on that suicide mission and there was an Alpha barreling down on you. If you let it kill you, the mission fails right then and there and Earth is doomed. If you kill it, the day resets, but you have no memory of it - still, J Squad gets another shot at killing the Omega, because Cage would still remember everything up until that point, same as how Rita still remembers all the times she reset the day after she lost the power. So here's the free will part: absent the memory of what you did before, are you doomed to make all the same choices again and thus inevitably fail again? Or, is it possible that you might randomly make a different decision than the one you made on your last run, and thus possibly eke out a victory (implying that free will is indeed a thing)? OR - third possibility - the Mimic's changing strategy _forces_ you to make slightly different decisions than before because circumstances have changed.
4. The ending - I got nothing. I don't understand how the Omega can be dead but a reset still gets triggered anyway. With the Alphas, it made sense: the Alphas were actually meant as trigger mechanisms and what they triggered was the Omega. If the Omega is dead, though, what's performing the reset? Cage? That would imply that all that's needed to do a reset is Omega blood, and if that's the case, then the Omega's...body is one giant tactical mistake. It's big, stationary, and defenseless, like a tree. Why not allow it to move around on its own and/or give it stabby tentacles like the Alphas? UNLESS...what if the Omega _isn't_ what's resetting the day and we just thought it was? What if the Omega is just a Mimic communications hub (relaying signals to ground forces), and something else has the power to reset the day? The Omega might have the same kind of reset-triggering blood as Alphas do because under ordinary circumstances, you'd want to reset when you lose a comm hub. That could mean the Mimic isn't dead and there might be a round 2 to this war.
2. "... and [Cage] gets run over, he doesn't die right away. We know this"
Or he _does_ die right away, but we follow that timeline a bit further before snapping back onto Cage's next one.
There's precedent -- in the original _Groundhog Day,_ after one of the times Phil kills himself, we get a scene at the morgue, where Rita[!] and Larry identify Phil's dead body before we get the next rendition of "I Got You Babe".
4. Shrug. I figure the Alphas and the Omega trigger time resets _as_ they die, so Cage (and Rita) just lucked out.
Regarding the Mimics' design flaws, they're evolved not engineered because an engineer would give the Omega the ability to reverse time at will and just use Alphas for relaying sensory information. Evolution makes things that are good enough, not optimised. Which is why the Mimics have a couple of glaring flaws.
p. 1,2 great observation!
p.3 current state of things in science is that world is non-deterministic, so no fatalism. If we follow this trope, it is possible that choices may be different each time.
p.4 cmon this movie needed a happy ending after all the shit people went thru.
4. There's no day reset, omega physicaly travels back in tiem and relays information to alphas. I take that by cage getting mixed in with its blood the omega added him to the network again (as when he first got mixed with alpha blood). This assumes the omega didn't die instantly in the explosion, but managed to go back in time, where it succumbed to its injuries and thus the whole Mimic network went down. By going back in time and relaying the information, Tom Cruise knows what happened, but he doesnt drop like the mimics because he has his own conscience and not only the shared hive mind of the omega.
For pt. 3: My pet theory (after the second time I watched the movie) is that this actually happened. They should have had the element of surprise, but the Mimics seemed to be ready for them. (Their airship was hit well away from the Louvre.)
Something probably went wrong the first time; either an Alpha got caught accidentally in a bomb explosion or was deliberately sacrificed by the Omega. By resetting the timeline to try to achieve a "perfect" victory, the Mimic Omega wound up changing things so Cage couldn't make the same decisions, creating the path where he ended up winning.
I remember being absolutely blindsided when this movie got announced, I discovered the manga it was based on about 4 chapters into it's run and I was immediately hooked. I adored that story and followed it religiously, hoping that someday it would get an anime adaptation, never expected it to skip that step and go straight to live action. There are certain aspects of the original that I prefer but all-in-all this was an incredible adaptation and a personal favourite movie of mine.
I wasn't a huge fan of the manga. I listened to the audiobook on the way home from a road trip and it didn't grab me. This movie is one of the extremely rare instances where the movie actually makes a better version of the original story, in my opinion.
The story is good but the art is really what made it, the audio book approach may not of been ideal.
The sheer amount of surprisingly well-timed humour throughout this film is the movie's way of communicating to its audience that it knows it's a silly concept and doesn't want to be taken in any way seriously. That's why the ambiguous ending is not only forgivable but actually very fitting. Just the way I interpret things anyway. One of my personal favourites.
As a frenchman i can confirm we all have helicopters in our backyards. If we don't have backyard, we put them in the fridge, no big deal.
One of my favorite movies of the 2010s and it's a close second to James Cameron's "Aliens" as my favorite military sci-fi /space marine movies (it helps that the legendary Bill Paxton is in both).
Lot of great scenes in it but my favorite is that montage of Rita killing Cage and the drill sergeant trying to be nice to him afterwards by calling him a maggot (9 years later and it makes me laugh)
I’ve been to the Louvre and they do use mimics for security. Tourists who step out of line, die immediately.
Regarding the ending, I think after Cage went back the final time, the Omega died from temporal feedback. Either there can only be one Omega on a planet, so Cage showing up as a second Omega caused the first one to explode, or its death rippled backwards through time due to him traveling back at the moment of its death.
He was labeled as a "deserter" which, in this case, means he is going into the battle unprepared. The plan was for him to be killed in Operation Downfall because he was basically a coward in the eyes of the soldiers and the General. On a different note, this movie visualizes playing a video game, like Halo on Legendary difficulty, where the story is fixed but you die repeatedly until you memorize the enemy movements for every point of every mission... every second counts... until you beat the game.
So Emily Blunt tells a story of making this movie. The steel suit exoskeleton that they wear actually in reality weighs like 70 pounds. Quite heavy. And Emily says it was too much for her, that early in filming she broke down in front of Tom crying and whining about she can't do this, it's too much. And Tom just stands there staring at her for a few moments as she's whining and then Tom says "don't be a f@cken pu$$y". And it was so unexpected and hilarious she broke out laughing and it gave her the strength she needed to go on and complete the movie!
To add to that, when they came back for some extra shots, she was reluctant to do stunt work. Tom asked her what was up and she told him that she was pregnant. Tom was one of the few people at this point outside of her family to know, but totally understood and kept it in confidence.
It's not really important, but Cruise doesn't get demoted at the start of the film. A US soldier can get put under a foreign commander who controls where he is posted, but his rank is given to him by the US Army and they won't let anyone else take it away. The general just decided that instead of the court-martial Cruise deserved, he would have someone he could rely on write up (false) orders saying he was a private and a deserter, in order to force him to actually fight as a more fitting punishment.
37:57 What explanation do you need? He remembered. And he went to Rita as he had been so many times. He gets a chance for her to know him as much as he knows her.
He’s not tearing up.. he’s super happy that she’s alive and he’s going to get to know her now with all their romance ahead. It’s pretty obvious.
Groundhog Day meets Aliens meets Die Hard. Doesn't get much more fun than this. Glad you liked it!
Not diehard. Starship troopers.
@@tonyb7615 Ooo that's better. Good call!
The teary eyes and grin are an indication that how much fun he's gonna have telling Rita Vrataski all the adventures and everything they have been in together and the moment when he will finally reveal her middle name.
What a terrific sci-fi film, one of the best using a time repeating window. Someone suggested watching "Oblivion" & I wholeheartedly second that!! A really unique sci-fi film that I think you'd enjoy. Great reaction, look forward to more.
It's a scifi action packed Groundhog Day movie. No, she doesn't have the authority, he has to keep sneaking away, find her, and go through the whole explanation every time.
The thing about why they don't want him to know how to turn the safety off is they realise he's inexperienced and don't want him to accidentally shoot them, which is harder when you can't turn the safety off
He also desperately wants to escape, so they don't want him pointing that gun at them and demanding to be set free.
When he died, the Omega blood got into him, meaning that he can now freely control time (without having to die). His memories were certainly intact, and he went back to "introduce" himself to the woman he loved.
The mimics could have conquered Earth if only they chose Omega's location into a generic building... but they chose the Louvre museum lol
I always find it hilarious when the one soldier straps a Claymore to his chest with the iconic words facing out: "FRONT TOWARD ENEMY" (To be clear: if that thing went off, the soldier would be dead no matter what)
This is one of the best Sci Fi movies ever made! Emely Blunt is awesome and of course Tom... this desperately needs a sequel!!
Fun fact this movie is based on a Japanese Novel called "All you need is kill"
Fun fact. This loser is most likely the 100th person to leave this exact comment. Unoriginal copycat cringe.
Great manga.
Always fun to ask a creator, if they can pinpoint when exactly their opinion of Cruise as an actor changed... because so many of them state they are NOT a fan of Tom on the first couple of reactions, but very very quickly their tune changes and he is like in their top 5 actors of all time.
Just setting aside anything from his personal life, he is both an amazing actor and very selective about the movie roles he chooses. Perfect combo to have if you want an extremely successful career.
I am not a fan of Tom Cruise as a person and probably never will be. But whatever I think of the man, I have to admit that he picks fantastic roles. There are so many of his movies that I really like. I know people who haven't watched a Tom Cruise movie since before I was even born because they don't like him and refuse to support his work, but after having seen so many of his movies that I enjoyed, I can't skip them just because Tom Cruise. They might be great.
@@BubblyRainbows You are right to separate the art from the artist. It's easy to become a jerk when you're rich and famous; you don't socialize much with normal people and there might be no one in your life who will say no to you. I'm sure there are a great many filmmakers, actors, musicians, writers, etc. who are unpleasant people. To bypass them all you'd essentially have to opt out of our culture.
@@DavetheGrue You haven't made it far enough past the public stories yet.
Cruise is nutty in his beliefs, but he is a nice guy, and dedicated to film making.
People with bad stories about working with him share a lot in common.
Namely, if you are phoning your acting in on set, Tom can tell, and he will relentlessly attack you for it until you shape up. If you give it your best, he will respect and support you.
The covid rant Tom made on the set of Top Gun Maverick was massively misunderstood. He wasn't worried about masks or covid. Tom specifically said in the rant that if people kept treating the mask wearing lightly, that the set would get shut down, and delay production, hurting everyone involved from top to bottom of the actors in the movie. Tom was also responsible for the great shape many of the actors were in, and because of him, at minimum, four of the actors got their pilot's licenses, with Tom himself as a partial instructor.
Even in Edge of Tomorrow, Tom pushed Emily hard, yet Emily trusted Tom enough to let him know that she was three months pregnant and had not brought it up out of fear of being replaced. Tom kept her secret, and made sure that she was not in any stunts or scenes that could hurt her baby. After the movie was done, and everything put together, Emily herself talked about how hard he was on her, yet she loved it and he was a good friend.
@@highlander31527 I appreciate your passion and all, but you are responding to something I never said. I said you have to separate the art from the artist. It was a general statement, regardless of whatever anyone thinks about Cruise. I don't know him personally.
The omega resets him hrs earlier, I assume it went with what you were thinking of, so he imagined himself before he was sent to the front.
To memorise effectively an entire campaigns worth of battle movements, where to stand, shoot etc, would have been hundreds of days, why they were both so good in battle.
I'm guessing he fell in love with her, due to spending so much time with her, & the same goes for her too with Henderson, & from how it plays out, he died again when she got injured, passed out & woke up in hospital, without the power.
Emily wants to make a sequel.
The original title for this movie was "Live, Die, Repeat."
Also they didn't want to help Cage because they were told that he was a deserter, so most people wont help someone that has a proven recorder of not doing what they should.
Great movie. Other great time travel movies are The Butterfly Effect and Frequency. Also another great Tom Cruise movie which is not reacted at all is the first Jack Reacher movie.
Best way to describe this movie... Starship Troopers meets Groundhogs Day.
One of my favorite movies by the way.
It’s fun seeing Tom Cruise start off as such a coward in this movie, and then gradually grow into a bad ass over the course of the film, it’s a cool change of pace from his normal roles, and just a cool character arch
Love this movie, I call it Groundhog Day on steroids.😉 Notice how both love interest in both movies were named "Rita", I think they did this as a way to pay tribute and say thanks for the Idea. The happiest ending, Tom Cruise's next line to Rita......"Can I buy you a cup of coffee and tell you how we saved the world".
I know the biggest thing about this film is that it was based on a Japanese light novel, and I get that, but the thing that I appreciated the most is that it served to commemorate the D-Day landings in World War 2. It was even released on their 70th anniversary (a week earlier in the UK).
Also, can we appreciate that this film has now become a way of describing Tom Cruise's entire acting career? For his first 15 years, outside of the original Top Gun and Days of Thunder, he wasn't that much of an action star. His dedication to his work has increased by the year since the first Mission Impossible movie in 1996, just like his character here became better skilled with each loop, to the point that he has done his own insane stunts for many years now.
I think that the adaptation of taking a novel written as taking place in Japan, and transplanting that to Britain, a different island nation across the globe, was also a really smart thing to do as well. It's kind of an obvious choice in hindsight really, but it the sort of thing I can imagine another creative lead doing a really poor job at, or doing something else entirely.
And as you said, this adaptation serves to commemorate the D-day landings with this choice too.
11:24 VKunia typing on an old typewriter lol
RIP to Bill Paxton who sadly died shortly after this film was released. 😟
Interesting you should mention feeling anxious about the sound during the intro. Originally there was an ultra low frequency (ULF) droning sound playing in that sequence that could be felt more than heard, and is said to induce anxiety. The home release was changed once the 4K blu-ray came along (I think) because the first version blew up some consumer subwoofers due the the sustained ULF in that part of the movie. It still goes low, just not as low.
Awesome movie by the way, glad you watched it :-)
Here is the thing about snacks during the reaction. We enjoy watching you check out our favorite movies. It's a great time, pretty much why we are all here. Problem is if you don't have snacks then we feel self conscious about eating snacks when we can't really offer to share with you. So if WE ALL are having snacks it's a GREAT TIME while watching a great movie. Make sense? 😁
There is another reaction channel I like called Popcorn in Bed where, as the title suggests, the reactor eats popcorn while reacting to the movie. At least she used to! Unfortunately Cassie received complaints from viewers that her crunching was annoying and distracting so she doesn't really do it anymore. 🍿 Fun Fact: Recently she and her sister Carly (who sometimes reacts with her) were invited to attend the premier of the new Mission Impossible and had their picture taken with Tom Cruise! They were even featured on Access Hollywood! (Sorry about plugging another channel Vicky 🥴 You're still the best😃👍 Love ya!)
@@PlumbPitiful Hello, if I need a snack, I have snack. Vicky if you need a snack have a snack. If your audience wants quiet snacks have some ice cream. I would.
Yeah exactly, it'd be kinda lame to find it bothering when people have snacks while watching a movie. I just don't get people who won't stop bickering about the most minor things. Yet so good of Vkunia to ask her audience.
To me the ending means Cage has newly retained the power. So...I like to imagine Cage and Rita getting together after this, having a bunch of kids, growing old, and when Cage is on his deathbed surrounded by his great grandchildren: "I love all of yo--"
SNAP CUT He's back on the helicopter 😂
"Hmmm wonder is Nance from J Squad is single...."
Well, if he has the power to reset the day, can he choose not to?
@@spdcrzy I would say its not presented as a choice in the movie, and is even presented as a curse in the early stages.
@@michaeljacyna1973 I completely agree. But from a biological standpoint, he IS the omega now. And the Omega resets the day when AN Alpha dies, but it seems to be something that the Omega can choose to do and use as an offensive weapon. There are no Alphas left, so is there a reason to reset the day anymore? Yes, maybe it's part of their biology, but I wonder if that instinct is something that the Mimics controlled - and maybe he has, too.
@@spdcrzy Interesting point. But I would think as a human unintentionally inheriting the ability, it would likely be a surprise, much like the first time was a surprise. And if such a choice is true, would take some practice to figure it out. I think he at least gets to live two seperate lifetimes, minimum LOL
Its Quantum Entanglement, he wasn't technically traveling back in time but the electrical synapses that are basically our consciousness routing back information from the future, in other words he was just remembering the future. now how did him killing the omega reset the timeline? again Quantum entanglement, while he destroyed it in the future the omega was existing simultaneously Past Present and Future so by killing it he basically reset all the actions the Omega had done from the point of Cage landing in the helicopter, why to that point, well at the end he absorbed the Omega's blood so its safe to say that Cage was in control (Subconsciously albeit) as to what point he wished that it would be rest to. At least this is my view on it idk i may be way off and it could just be like a video game and he re-spawned at a save point lol.
Love this movie. And Bill Paxton is great in it!! RIP
" What the Hell were you thinking? " - Master Sargeant Farell
Ending explanation (from what I can gather): The Mimics are 4 dimensional beings that exist across a 24hr period, so killing the Omega in the present killed it in the past.
This movie is so insane.
I don’t know if a sequel is making with the same actors, but I hope that do ❤😊
Doubt it
they are planning a sequel since 2015, but Emily Blunt said it will cost a lot of money.
I hope not.
Sequels too often ruin the original.
@@TomH2681 i think the problem would be that they don't have something to guide them like in the first movie (they based it of a novel called "all you need is kill") leading to a possible bad script
There are a million sequels.
37:43 Explanation: ♫ I need to know now, know now. Can you love me again? ♫
(Tom Cruise gained ability from Ω to go back several days. Even in an alien army, decision-making are shared in levels).
Boss Level is another fun time loop movie, and they really go all in on the video-gaminess of the loops.
Source Code - despite the terrible name - is another good take on the genre.
I remember watching a time loop movie where a guy is being sent back in time to stop a train with a nuke on it from reaching the city the time machine is in. Every loop in the past uses up time in the present and if the nuke goes off in the city, the time machine will be destroyed. So he only has a limited number of loops to get it right.
@@kryptonianguest1903 Better than this, Source Code is not only a good time loop movie, it's also an explanation how we can be transferrd to another life when we die. It's fringe esoterist sci-fi but damn it's inspiring. If you can experience another life, you can live that other life. Consciousness is boundless.
The Omega realized invading would lead to its death, so it reset far enough back to abort the entire thing with minimal casualties to its forces, and the energy surge was probably from it getting the heck out of dodge by space travel or some such thing.
That's a cool theory.
nice headcannon, fortunately not what happens, fortunate for humanity that is
@@NewsofPE Why not? Based on what?
@@henriklarsen8193 fortunate because then what stops it from coming back
@@NewsofPE That, good sir, is what we in the biz call a "sequel".
I really hope a sequel is made soon. Emily blunt wants to make it but is waiting on Tom cruise
Yeah I think after finishing the Mission Impossible series, He is gonna make it..
This was the best love story. Science fiction was just for premise.
The ending doesnt really make sense but the rest of the movie is so so good. Really like this one
Real
Which part didn't make sense?
@@DaveH82 just like she said in the video. He wins the war by destroying the thingy, gets covered by the time accid again. Gets thrown back in time, not 1 day but even more days where the war should be in full swing again, but no. All of a suden the war is over in the past as well?! It would make sense that the war will be over in the future where he dies while destroying the thingy, not in the past where all this still has to take place... Its a plot hole and i understand why they did it. They lost on a technicality, but it was needed to get a nice roundup to the plot arc consistent with the upbeat style of the movie.... great action flick, good humor
Not really hard to understand the ending. If the omega controls time then you'd have to assume the omega exists outside the realm of time. You'd also have to assume each time an alpha dies the omega resetting the day is more of a "bodily" impulse reaction. If alphas are the "nervous system" of the omega then the omega dying would also impulse reset the day. So Cruise blows up omega, gets covered in its blood, omega dies and resets day, Cruise is back a few hours before he met the General which is a few hours before the original reset point throughout the movie, since omega exists outside of realm of time his injuries persist and it dies, the day is reset with omega and all other mimicks dead as mimicks are part of the omega. Not hard to understand
@@Lukasgate I have a different take on it. When Cage killed the Alpha, he became an Alpha. When Cage dies, the Omega resets the day.
By that logic, when Cage killed the Omega, he became the Omega. He now has the power to reset time.
Cage being the Omega, means there is no other Omega, so when he resets time, the Omega ceases to exist from the moment he reset to, creating the electromagnetic pulse that kills all the Mimics.
If the Omega had reset time when it died, they'd have to start all over again.
I think the helicopter was a crop duster model, this is a house/farm... so maybe not a common sight but it his possible and not so far-fetched.
The book explains it a little differently (SPOILERS AHEAD)
When an Alpha (or a human infused with Alpha blood) dies, it doesn’t exactly reset the day. It sends all of their memories of that day back in time to themselves, the day before. They live through it again, then send the next memories back. It repeats until the war is done. So, in the timeline, Cage actually defeated the Omega only once, using the memories of having played through it hundreds of times. Once the Omega was defeated, the repeat loop ended.
Tom Cruise has four solid scifi films to his credit, and this is one of them. Edge of Tomorrow, Oblivion, Minority Report, and War of the Worlds. He has a fifth scifi movie, but it's not action. It's more of an art film. Not bad, but not what you'd think for Tom Cruise. It's Vanilla Sky. And if you want to see him joke about his Mission Impossible role, try Knight and Day.
If "fell in love with a movie" was an actual definition.... this movie is my true love
This is based on a manga light novel called All You Need is Kill. Took Cruise is called Cage in this, in the light novel the character was named Keiji.
The way i see the ending is that the Omega is actually a creature out of time, basically It exists at all times at the same time, thats what when It died in the "future" It also died in the past. That could explain how they retain memories from the posible futures too
Your mech-a-suit, stands for Mexico, when I turn on CC! 😂
22:00 "His body isn't resting. He needs to eat and drink and sleep."
His body is different every time. I mean, he gets crushed, shot, blown up, but then he wakes up with none of those injuries.
In fact, when he wakes up, he was JUST SLEEPING.
So each day his new body is fed and rested and ready to go.
Soldiers get to eat, so he probably has meals during that day like all the other soldiers.
And since his body only has to last one day, or less, he's physically fine each day with his new, well-rested body.
The only thing in doubt is if his mind (not brain, but the mind itself) gets fatigued.
Since he has all his memories and experiences carried to his new body each day, that means his mind is processing all of this constantly without resting or sleeping in between.
That might be a problem.
Until we can test mental fatigue in time-loops in laboratory conditions, we may never know.
20:20 "So he's made a game plan."
Yes.
"And he's training her because that's the most efficient way?"
No.
She can't remember any of this.
Only he can.
So he's discussing it with her because she's the expert.
Then when they really are on the beach, only he remembers the conversations so he has to tell her everything to do.
This was one of my favorite love stories.
How are you explained it is kind of how I see it, the Omega was trying one last ditch attempt to reset the day for itself and move positions, however the bomb went off first so all that energized blood was in the water and latched onto the last living thing there, which just so happen to be Tom Cruise
It is an exo suit. Mechs are things depicted in the movie "Pacific Rim" and games such as Mech Warriors. An exo suit is a hydraulic frame assisting the frail human body while a mech is a self propelled assault vehicle usually depicting human form possessing two to four legs and a pilot.
This is such an underrated movie. I absolutely love it. Seeing Cage go from total noob to hardened war vet is moving for me. Yet he still manages to fall in love with Rita. Imagine losing someone you care about, then imagine doing it every day for what may have been a year or more. I like the ambiguity regarding how many times he actually died. After a while all that would start to blur together. As for the ending, given that the Omega can reset the day and regained the ability when Cage lost it, I assume it either reset the day one more time in a last ditch effort to avoid defeat and it backfired, or because Cage was dying and got the blood on him that he gained the power one more time right before he died, just as in the beginning. The of course he goes to see Rita and he smiles knowing he already knows so much about her and he actually gets the chance to be with her and not watch her die over and over.
They don't tell where the safety is because they conclude he is more likely to panic and kill one of them rather than the enemy - this is puzzling?
I think a lot of people are just surprised that they would want an ineffective soldier on their side during the invasion, and so their minds don't immediately go to a darker place. Personally, I always just assumed they didn't show him where the safety was because if he was really a coward committed to getting out of fighting, he could potentially kill all of them and make a run for it.
...and on your left, it's the glass thing in France. Tips will be appreciated.
"Tom Cruise in a mecha-suit" is all you need to know.
This movie hits all kinds of different ways.
Even my mother, who doesn't like Cruise, and doesn't watch sci-fi movies absolutely loves this one.
It’s basic. The omega resets on automatic based on connection with its alphas. In the last seconds Cage reconnected and caused a reset with one last breath from the dying omega.
in answer to your question, you are right, it does not make any sense from what little we've been told in the movie that Tom Cruise would have been sent all the way back to when he arrived in England. Nor did it make any sense that the war would have ended then rather than later that night when the Omega was taken out. My guess is that it was simply the place the director felt would provide the best ending.
I did really enjoy though your thinking that it was the French that were defending the Louvre from Tom Cruise and his gang.
As to the way we were left hanging as to whether there was going to be any future romantic interactions with Rita and Cage you may soon find out as I understand there have been several talks a sequel.
A few other commenters have explained it already. If you've already seen their explanations, then I'm sorry for repeating them. Basically, Tom Cruise lost the power before the invasion, and during the night before the invasion, he convinces J Squad to follow Rita and him to the Louvre. Then, in the early hours of the morning he kills the Omega and absorbs its blood. However, the new start time for resetting the day is now the late night/early morning of the day before the invasion, instead of during the invasion. And we know from the first time, that when he was killed on the beach, every time the day restarted, it started about 24 hours _before_ the time he died.
So, with the new start point being the morning before the invasion, 24 hours earlier would have been a day earlier than that, which is about when he was flying into London to meet with the General. Meaning he still has his rank and the others in his squad are alive. It's not immediately obvious, but if you look at how the movie plays out and kind of play it out in your head from the new start time, it really does make sense.
@@BubblyRainbows OK I'll buy that. And thanks for sharing. But there are now 1,000 timeloop paradoxes that pop up by sending him back to a new reality before the Omega was killed. Like why should the war have even ended if the Omega is still alive and no mission has yet been sent to destroy it? Seems to me as though Cruise got extremely lucky killing it the first time. And if needed, who knows whether he could duplicate that effort commencing from a new starting point? So the Omega obviously gave up too quickly. Or was the Omega now dead having been killed by future Tom Cruise? You see it is a real hornet's nest with no satsifying way to tie up all the loose ends when you look too deep.
And the only truly logical way to resolve everything I believe would be if Tom Cruis was not sent back in time and the war simply ended with the death of the Omega. But that of course would not have been the dramatic ending the producers needed so so much for logic.
@@itt23r I haven't been able to find the original comment talking about this, but what I once was told was that the Omega basically sits in a time rift, half in today and half in yesterday. When one of the Alphas dies, the Omega closes the gate in the current day and is just back in yesterday, allowing it to open a new gate and do it all again. They said something about Tom Cruise being close enough to be reinfected with its blood meaning he was within the gateway when it collapsed, so he was sent back to the earlier time, etc. I apologize for not being able to recite specifics. I saw the original post 6 months ago, maybe more. I only remember the gist of it. I think they said it was explained in the book? But I could be misremembering.
As for my own thoughts about the time travel thing: I believe where you make your mistake is in mentioning alternate realities. It never says the reset is an alternate reality. Again, this is just my theory, it's never confirmed anywhere that I know of, but it seems to me that in this movie's universe, you need to treat time like an old video game. Basically, the Omega saves the game the day before the battle, and then keeps playing. When its Alpha dies, it resets the game and loads up its last save, so it can try again for better results. But the reset doesn't send it to an alternate reality or anything, it literally just overwrites the current save with the reload, the way old video games used to when they had limited save slots.
When Tom Cruise kills the Omega and gets caught up in its blood, he once again steals control of the ability to reset the game, and the Omega can't go back because this time, instead of its Alpha's reset being stolen, its entire save was stolen since it itself is kind of like the console. So, Tom goes back to yesterday, the Omega stays stuck in today, and when Tom wakes up, he overwrites the save and continues on. Thus the Omega is permanently gone, since it wasn't able to be reloaded into the new save while it was trapped in tomorrow. Either that, or when the reload occurs, the Omega is loaded as a dead Omega because without its power it couldn't reset itself during the reload.
Just my theory on it. If messing with time just overwrites any previous timelines, it eliminates a lot of the plot holes in time travel movies. And I believe it eliminates all of the plot holes in this specific movie. But I could be wrong. I haven't read the book or manga or whatever, so I could definitely be missing key information.
@@BubblyRainbows Yeah but simply because someone came up with a way of explaining it, it does not follow that it makes sense. A time rift?! Really?! Oh of course, if there was a time rift!!
Simply stated, when you start talking about time travel into the past you have to resort to crazy talk because there is no way to do it without producing a ton of temporal paradoxes. The only way around it is to invoke the even nuttier multiverse theory. But if you do that you end up with the humans losing the war thousands of times in thousands of alternative universes until they finally get it right. Is that the satisfying ending you think audiences would love?
I do undersand the concept of the timeloop though, as ridiculous as it is portrayed. No need to explain that. But the only way you can really make sense of getting out of one while dealing with only one reality is by exiting into the future, not into the past. And I doubt there is any way you are going to convince me otherwise. Thanks though for the info. I'm happy to see that they at least tried to explain it.
@@itt23r Well, as I said, the first explanation wasn't originally mine, and it's been too long since I read it to remember all the intricate details. But I thought they said it was explained in the book, so if it really matters to you, you could try there.
I don't find this movie at all confusing when dealing with only a single timeline. It works perfectly the way I worked it out, but maybe I didn't explain it well. However, since you said you won't be convinced, I won't continue to use up your time by trying. I appreciate your honesty and directness. I hope you have a great week. ✌🤓
Tom Cruise is now the Omega. He has reset the day
Groundhog Day At War is not a movie I ever would've expected to exist but it came out all those years ago and it was incredible
No wasted scenes, flow was near perfect, you can tell right away when he starts "skipping" resets, etc.
Easily in my top ten
22:00 His body is as rested as it was the first day. The thing that would be a problem is he is physically restarting too. So only his memory of moves is improving, but not like the training is giving him muscles or endurance.
Fun FACT: this is one of the few good hollywood MANGA adaptations, this one was adapted from: All You Need Is Kill in case you want to read it
VKunia: "Aliens"
Me: "Did you just assume their planet of origin???"
When the Omega was killed and Cage died with the Omega blood on him, the day was reset (because Cage died) to the beginning of the chain of events that started the path of the Omega's destruction. He had killed the Omega earlier in the morning and the control of the Omega over time was lost since it was dead and there were no Alphas alive to trigger the reset (since they all died when the Omega was killed). That's why he didn't reset to the FOB day when he was introduced to J squad. Because he never went into combat with J squad where he would die with the Alpha, he reset to the helicopter flight where his initial involvement began. It was the only time reference left to reset to.
Quick easy explain for ending . When Cage had the ALPHA power he was considered like and ALPHA to the OMEGA , the OMEGA reset the day as soon an ALPHA dies , But after all that .The Omega reset time like he want , When cage got the Omega blood on him , He was the only one with the power to reset so he did unconsciously to were he was safe and sound , but the omega is still dead because its Cage who did the reset , not the omega . ( Sorry for my bad english , hope it made sense)
Tom has done several Alien invasion movies: Oblivion and War of the Worlds.
If you like the groundhog day but in other genres thing i highly recommend Happy Death Day. It's groundhog day slasher movie with a lot of heart. Love your reactions :)
My personal theory is that the mimics' blood actually travels back in time and goes back to its host but when the blood is 'transferred' it goes back to the last host, i.e. the person who killed the mimic and got impregnated. Since the human can't control the time travel power, he/she goes back to his/her last time sleeping and the respective mimic just gets drained of blood and dies at the same time. That explains all the times Cage got back to the morning of the invasion but when he finally killed the Omega and the blood tried to go back to the last time he was asleep, it found that slot used by the Alpha's blood, and it goes back another slot to the helicopter. The blood was transferred, the Omega was drained, and it died with all the hive
The manga this is based on is called "All You Need Is Kill" its a great read. I think they really nailed the premise of this movie and really did a good job with the whole "groundhog's day" thing. one of the better takes on it.
omega tried to reset to an earlier day but it wasnt fast enough while dying. blood got mixed up and the reset happened - but because it was already dying in the "future" it died in the past too.
7:33 - "Why doesn´t he want the pants :/" made my day haha
actually, the whole !"underwear saga" is one of vkunia´s comedy gems
What is a Mecca suit? An exoskeleton one wears to go on pilgrimage?
This reminds me so much of the "Mystery Spot" episode in season 3 of Supernatural (where someone kept dying over & over & over).
In the end it was not the security of France taking it seriously 😂. It was all the guarding mimics around the Louvre protecting their omega.
My ending explanation is that the after the alpha died in the omega explosion the blood from the alpha allowed Tom's character to reset the time one last time to a point a bit further back in time but another reality, just when he was in that helicopter again. And in this reality the omega destruction just has happened (maybe it was Rita doing it herself this time?) before he was trying to blackmail the general. The only difference is that now he's no longer the sleazy marketing guy but a battle hardened man with character.
at the end, Tom's character got infused with the Omega's blood not an Alpha
14:38 "Find me when you wake up!" Love this scene
One thing I love to do is try to imagine the conversation Cage would have with Vertasky after the end; How he would explain to her what had happened.
"Yes? What do you want?"
Has tears in his eyes with a smile
"I need to Know Now! Know Now! WILL WILL YOU LOVE ME AGAIN?".
This is my favorite time loop movie. It's also a Tom Cruise film in which Tom Cruise tries to be less of his usual characters.
Fun Fact-Operation: Downfall was the name for the proposed invasion of the Japanese Home Islands in WWII. It was an unused plan because Japan surrendered after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
They don't tell him about the safety because if he doesn't know where it is then he's so untrained that they think if he shoots he'll be more of a danger to them than the enemy,
explain the alien dying in the "future." This is usually the case in most stuff dealing with time travel... once there is a being that can control or travel through time, when they die, they die in every existence in time past present and future. So while they did kill it in the future it can no longer live in the past because it's basically living in every moment in time