Edge of Tomorrow - in which Tom Cruise illustrates what he has learned from both Emily Blunt and Bill Murray. Cruise is a military PR guy named Cage, who tries to get out of ground combat, and accidentally ends up deserting the World Military Force in England. The combat mission is against some scary af aliens, called Mimics, and they are winning the war for Earth. Bummer. Alright, so, Cruise ends up on a battlefield while his unit is getting wrecked, and he gets off this lucky shot and kills a super big and blue glowing mimic, but it backfires, like literally and the alien explodes goo all over him, killing him. Then he wakes up like 36 hours before, and is trapped in a Groundhog Day situation until he finds out it also happened to Emily Blunt, who is a military celebrity affectionately named the Full Metal Bitch. It is technically propaganda, but it is also badass. She helps Cruise train to fight the mimics, and they get a little bit further every day, but it is grueling, and possibly takes years. Cruise gets psychically connected with the mimic brain center, and learns its location through shared dreaming. This had happened to Blunt, but once she was injured and received a blood transfusion, she lost the connection and her save point was destroyed. Blunt stays with him every step of the way, although she does need to be re-convinced after every time Cage dies and goes back to his save point. Through much trial and error, they eventually get to the brain center and with some soldiers that were convinced that something weird was going on when Tom Cruise knew everything about them before ever meeting them, according to their perception of time. The Big Brain is under the Lourve, and the rogue mission to destroy it is tough, but they get to the brain and explode it, resetting time to and even earlier save point, but still within the timeline of the film.
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