They did defeat the aliens. The general at the end is describing the surge of energy that the omega gave off when it died, which killed the entire alien force. Him getting the blood again at the very end and resetting one final time was just luck, they won anyway, he just expected to die doing it. They have nothing to fight at the end, the aliens are already all dead when he resets. He goes to meet her again just to get to know her properly.
I agree with everything you said with the exception of "get to know her properly." Because he changed what happened it also means he would never get to know her. "Have I got something on my face?" what about her attitude leads you to believe she would even give him the time of day?
@@lexwells4763 LOL he knows everything about her and he can prove it, after that she will give him the time of day he just has to say "your middle name is ROSE", so what you said makes no sense.
@@xxn0cturn3xxHopeless romantic. You can believe that if you want, but she is as hard as nails and I don't see her getting to know her in this alternate time he created. Its the price of changing reality.
@@lexwells4763 "Hopeless romantic" You are delusional, only you mention romance, you cant just want to know people better? So what Tom cruise is gonna involve himself romantically with the male scientist that helped them too? The only hopeless romantic here is you.
@@lexwells4763 That is exactly the way she treats him upon their first meeting every single day. He has met her hundreds of times, spent hundreds of days with her. Which is exactly why his response to her abrasiveness is just to laugh, because he knows the person she is underneath it. "My middle name, is Rose"
@@reactswithjax lol... but I didn't think that was the same soldier - I thought the naked soldier was boisterous while the pushup guy was reserved. I could be wrong.
Between her not wanting to talk about Hendricks and 24:00 him saying he wish he never met her. I think this is the best part of the story. Falling in love with someone, while watching them dying over and over. I think this is why he tried to do it without her. Love this movie and Oblivion.
@dabreal82 a movie that is generally liked, but not well known us pr definition underrated. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's not underrated.
@@dabreal82It did fine in box office but this was at the time when Marvel movies were having massive box offices so by comparison, from a studio perspective, it under performed. On top of that lots of folks were just hating on it because Tom Cruise was involved and iirc he had some pretty bad PR at the time from his divorce and Scientology drama. When it hit streaming and rental, people realized they slept on it and that it was better than most of the big action flicks that were coming out at the time, So, by definition, it was underrated. Same for his other movie Oblivion. It took a couple years for people to come around on it. While I agree at this point calling it "underrated" is not true because the nerdosphere has embraced it, most reactions I see from folks who had no idea it even existed, broadly it is a fair way to describe it. It was under appreciated when it came but now is widely loved.
The author of the light novel this was based off on -- Hiroshi Sakurazaka -- was an old-school gamer. Games back then (like Super Mario Brothers, Contra, Galaga, or Sonic the Hedgehog) didn't have save files, so when you died and spent all of your lives you had to start all over from the beginning. You get to the point where you'd know what to do before something happened, because you've already gone through that part before. His experiences playing those games led to him writing the novel "All You Need is Kill".
Well, no Jax, the war is over and we won. When Tom blew up the Omega all the Mimic troops froze dead like spiders. Then the Omega power reset the day even early than before, like you read on the blog. The General then mentions in his speech they detected a "large energy serge" early that morning and while it's not on your reaction you posted I remember him then saying in the movie "Russian and Chinese troops pushing through Europe unopposed" or somthing like that. So then it's just GG we won thanks to Tom, Emily and J squad. Such a great movie concept and experience. I'm so glad you enjoyed it so much, I had a feeling you would, as it's one of my favorite movies. So great to share this one with you. Fun fact, Edge of Tomorrow is often referred to as "Live. Die. Repeat." thanks to an excellent advertising poster.
but they killed the omega after meeting j squad. how did they register the energy surge of the omega's death before tom's character even met the general??? 🤔
"For having no weapons, Tom Cruise has been able to survive a lot." He survived *because* he had no weapons. The Mimics have already been replaying this day for a long time. We don't know how long, but if you assume that the Mimics initially did not know about the invasion, they would have been resetting the day over and over in their attempts to perfect their response. That's why, when a soldier fires a heavy weapon at the Mimics, he is immediately killed by counterfire. The Mimics already know where he is because they have played that part of the "game" before. Cage can't figure out how to get his suit to work. So he's not any kind of threat at all. The Mimics are focusing on the soldiers who are a threat. They know exactly who those soldiers are and exactly when those soldiers need to be eliminated. The presence of the silver Mimic means that the Mimics are trying something new in that part of the game board on this playthrough, so the silver Mimics introduces a wildcard element, since its interactions with the soldiers it encounters haven't been part of any playthrough before. The Mimics don't know how any of the soldiers will react to its presence. So, while Cage would have died on every previous playthrough, this time he survives because he had the opportunity to kill a silver Mimic at the right place and time. And he only succeeded at that because, as a soldier, he's incompetent.
The helicopter rotor sword was such a good idea that Marvel copied it with Thanos in Endgame. His double-bladed sword is literally the rotor from the Thanos-copter that he flew in a cheesy 1980s comic (the Thanos-copter also showed up as an easter egg in the first season of Loki).
In the comics she says she uses the blade (and other melee weapons) because bullets run out too quickly. Also it makes sense that it's a helicopter blade because she'd need something she could make quickly in the area, and having a power suit to wield it, you can go bigger than just a simple sword.
My understanding is that there are no combat-capable aliens left to fight at the end. After Cage resets, he watches the general's press conference where he talks about that.
40:15 You still missed it... all the Aliens are done. Since the Omega died, and it was the brain, the alien species is "brain dead". There will be no combat, just the disposal of the alien bodies.
Basic rundown is the movie takes place over 3 days. day 1 movie intro , day 2 base , day 3 beach. Cage got the power on day 3 and reset back to day 2 most of the movie. When he lost the power it was morning of day 2 and they kill the omega on day 2 night. So when he gets reset with the omega blood it resets to day 1 when the movie starts. But since the omega was dead the mimics had no "brain" and couldn't fight back.
Because at the end of the movie…they are attacking the Louvre to kill the Omega…before they ever get on the beach..time is re-set much earlier…before he even meets the General and ends up in handcuffs…but he will be able to tell Rita the story..and her middle name is Rose…and he smiles…and he is still a major, an officer…in the US Army…
Fun fact: The original story of "edge of tomorrow" is from a manga, light novel called "All you need is kill". And its original is even more profound while the movie focuses on fighting and entertainment
And so begins the Lambie Rebellion... :) 14:15 Also, Emily Blunt said wearing those suits was exhausting for both her and Cruise in at least a couple of interviews. They are not exo-skeletons in real life. :)
39:46 The last line in the article is not correct. The Omega couldn't reset the day in the end because it was already dead. It was Cage who reset the day after he got the blood of the Omega in him, essentially making him a human Omega. The aliens stay dead in the end because they're all one organism that's a part of the dead Omega (15:03) and Cage is not. But it makes me wonder; if Cage ever have kids, and he resets time, will his kids also know that?
The scene when they recruit the unit is so good. He knows everything about everyone of them which means he tried to make it through the beach with every option he had and failed, probably multiple times. I'd love a counter to see how many attempts he took in total.
@@reactswithjax Honestly pretty likely. I don't know how many attempts they show on-screen, but it's clear that he's done a significant amount more than that as we go later into the movie. Also, the Angel mentions having seen someone die over 300 times, so she probably also had it for around a year if we also factor in that she must have had a certain amount of adjustment period just like he did.
@@reactswithjax It was far longer than a year. Rita experienced her day "over 300 times", but Cage did far more than she ever did. It's likely that Cage experienced this day over a thousand times.
From my understanding, this film is based on All You Need Is Kill, a Japanese science fiction light novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, published in 2004, with illustrations by Yoshitoshi Abe. I remember seeing it years back and thinking, "Huh, they look like Spartans from the Halo games," who themselves were inspired by the Mobile Infantry from the Starship Troopers (1988) anime, which featured power armor designs that would later inspire Halo: Combat Evolved (2001), bringing things full circle by 2004 with All You Need Is Kill. I do wish we got the power armor from the light novel or manga, as they looked amazing. However, the idea that the exo-suits in the film are prototypes still being tested is a unique concept. Humanity wasn’t fully prepared, so what we’re seeing throughout the film is essentially a large-scale field test. If they ever make a sequel, I’d love to see more advanced suits that give off Spartan vibes from Halo and, of course, All You Need Is Kill.
You are correct. Its loosely based, akin to how similar Starship Troopers is to its respective source material, perhaps even less related, but it is definitely directly inspired by All You Need Is Kill.
@@NewsofPE it is, but there are quite a few differences. For one in the manga both main characters had the power at the same time, and even started to learn how to evolve it.
@@YukoValis And the changes (especially to the characters) make it better than the light novel / manga imo. Which is rare. I can't think of another LA adaptation that is better than its respective manga or anime source.
@@SilentBob731 Captions are done by a computer so they are by sound, not the actual English spelling of "lamb". If the caption was typed by a person then said person is illiterate.
@@paulmartin2348 I'm referring to an animated caption Jax put up in one of her reactions. I would also spell it with a "b", but that's not the way she does.
"Those things look exhausting. Like, just the sheer muscle you'd have to have to carry it." That's the point of a powered exoskeleton. It does all the carrying so you don't have to.
To be fair this exoskeleton sucks. They're slow and they look so vulnerable. If they have exoskeleton like the one on G.I. Joe I think they'll have best chance on taking on those aliens.
Not as vulnerable as they'd be without it. It's nearly impossible to kill mimics hand-to-hand without superhuman strength, and the exoskeleton provides it. The mimics are always faster than the humans anyway. It sacrifices agility and quickness in exchange for a soldier still being able to fight hand-to-hand if he runs out of ammo.
My theory of the ending: it was the same "reset effect" when he died on the beach and in Paris. However, he died earlier in Paris than on the beach. It was nighttime in Paris well before the beach assault was to begin. It's all relative to the moment he died covered in alien blood as to which day starts over.
@@bable6314 When it comes to time travel, I consider it all to be a theory -- logical assumptions based on observed events. Consider this -- before that final day of fighting and before he received the blood transfusion, he was able to go further and further into the day of the battle and eventually to that dam which was a trap. He was able to survive the beach landing, then died at another location time after time until he figured out how to get past that point. But, no matter how far he progressed after the landing, he always started over at the same exact point in time -- him waking up on the tarmac. If the reset was based on a specific number of hours, why did he not reset to different times later in the day as he survived longer and longer the next day? That inconsistency tells me the theory is either more complicated or has exceptions to it. It's possible resets are in increments other than a single hour. Or maybe the resets take you back to a specific point in time, kind of like save points in a video game. Once you get past the next save point, you'll always reset to that point. By Tom regaining the power to reset the day and dying before the beach landing ever started, he went back to an earlier save point. Another good question would be, if Tom died at the same time he killed the Alpha, did he replace the Alpha as far as being able to reset the day? If so, then killing the Omega and reseting the day as the Omega might mean he has a longer reset capability than the Alpha. Just another theory,, of course.
Absolutely loved Oblivion (and I promise, not solely because of Olga…😉), very underrated film. I’m not necessarily a huge TC fan, but this & Oblivion are truly fun, well-made films.
The ending isn't complicated at all. You're misreading the synopsis that you looked up. The omega reset the day at the end, not Tom Cruise, but because it was dying when it reset all of the other mimics, that required it to survive, died in the reset. Meaning when Tom Cruise wakes up the day prior, all of the mimics are already dead because of a wave of energy(the omega's last attempted reset) that occurred right before he woke up, as is explained in the news reading during the movie. And, because the omega is dead, there is no longer a time looping ability tying off the loose end.
One of the best live-action adaptations from manga. I really like this film ending and little tweak. Because the manga version is so sad ending for me. Subjectively I love a happy ending than bittersweet ending or sad ending.
I loved this movie when I first saw it...then as I re-watched this movie about half a dozen times in the intervening years, it has slowly worked it's way into my top 5 all time favorites!
Yes. The Omega is killed the night before the invasion. So the reset is back 24 hours on the helicopter. But he's covered in the Omega's blood right before he dies, so Cage basically becomes the Omega for one last reset that he triggers by dying. But since the actual Omega is gone, that's the end.
I have just one complaint with that analysis. IMO only the Omega is capable of resetting the day, with the alphas/Cage merely being the automatic triggers. I don't think the Omega died right at the grenade explosion. If it did, no reset would have happened when Cage died a moment later covered again in the blood. I think the Omega was on its last legs when Cage died - then the day reset to the helicopter trip - and then the Omega died, along with all its mimics. My guess is the Omega is the only being that isn't effected by its time reversing ability. I think this is how it can retain its memories (that it presumably then shares with its alphas). This would explain why Cage was able to reset the day and why the Omega wasn't "reset" back to perfect health along with everyone else. Just my take anyway.
all good stuff. Entirely possible that Cage took over the reset point of the Alpha he killed. That Alpha's reset point was set by the Omega. There is no explanation about the Omega but the Omega could have had a reset point as well which was a day before the Alpha's reset point. Cage took a reset one last time using the Omega's reset point. Remember the original Alpha that Cage killed?, we assume that Alpha never came back to life again, and therefore the Omega also never comes back either but Cage did a final reset one last time but there was no battle left to fight and all the Mimics on Earth were incapacitated.
37:00 so, you always reset to one day prior to your time of death when you first acquired the power. Cage's initial time of death was 24 hours after he woke up on the duffel bags, and it no longer changes after that, regardless of how quickly he dies. But then he lost the power, and reacquired it when they made the Louvre attack a couple hours before the final battle was supposed to be launched, and before his initial time of death. This made him wake up a couple hours before the first reset point, which landed him in the helicopter for his meeting with the general. And since the Omega's death was permanent across time, it died the instant Cage reset back.
Everything MSG Farrell says, like "Battle is the great redeemer, the fiery crucible in which the only true heroes are born." Or when they are caught playing cards: Farrell: "And what is my definitive position on the concept of fate?" J Squad: "Through readiness and discipline, we are masters of our fate." then Farrell says: "You might call that notion ironic. But trust me, you'll come around." Through his death, Cage is literally "reborn" into the hero, thanks to battle. He is, indeed, redeemed. Also, he only becomes the hero because he trains... readiness and discipline are now what he is about, and this makes him a great soldier; and more to the point, allows him to control his own fate!
This movie is an underrated gem. Based on a manga called 'All You Need is Kill'. The editing is really tight, giving you just enough information to go "Oh, we're at this bit now," without having to see everything over and over again. Fun facts about Emily Blunt's character: The sword she uses is made of a helicopter blade, and the reason she uses a sword is because when she was doing the resets, she got sick of constantly running out of ammo. When she's getting off the bus and one of the guys calls her the 'Full Metal Bitch' and she punches him, that's Emily Blunt's IRL brother.
I love the way you just allow yourself to be immersed in the movie, like you still ask questions but you are enamored by the movie without wanting to try and poke a bunch of holes in the plot
Re: the ending. They do *NOT* have to fight the war again after the last reset. Killing the Omega killed all the mimics in the past, present, and future. The war was won, as was explained in General Brigham's public address at the end.
28:07 Well well well, guess im not the only one who jumped here. And im watching your reaction using a laptop and my phone is a mile away... we got pranked Jax.
When he was covered by the Alpha's blood at the end after the explosion, he again reset 24 hrs back to the early morning, when he was sleeping on the helicopter.
I understood the ending to be, when he got covered in the omegas blood at the end, he took over the omega’s ability to reset the day. But, since they destroyed the omega and the mimic’s survival was dependent on the omega; the mimics were now completely gone but he’s got the ability to reset the day if he needed to.
Let me explain something about the military, especially boot. When they give you a punishment, you do the punishment. Because trust me, they can always give you a worse punishment.
Now, just imagine he lives an intire life and after passing out with 80-100 years old he resets everything again getting back to 35-40 years old(don't know how old is he now). could be hell or paradise depending on the perspective.
Yea you might missed a bit at the end. The Omega was an omnipresent being, meaning that it existed in all timelines simultaneously. So when Cage killed it, it also dies in all timelines - past, present and future. This time Cage was touched by Omega blood, then able to returned to the point where the story begins, the aliens are now weakened (not defeated), and the chance for humanity to win is now greater, because the aliens can't reset the day anymore. Hope that helps.
This movie is soooooo underrated. It's amazing. It shows off some amazing character growth. It touches on the horrors of war, the skill gained by repetition, and how deeply war buddies can bond. As far as the ending goes, when Cage kills the Omega he gets covered in its blood. The Omega is the one that resets the day and learns what humanity does. So the more they fight the more the Omega can learn and counter it which is how they are utterly dominating mankind. When the Omega dies Cage gets its power one last time but since the Omega is dead the day resets to Cage instead of the Omega. He resets earlier than the rest of the movie because he died earlier than he did originally. With the Omega dead the Mimics have no leadership or direction and are indeed just braindead. So the military sweeps through meeting no resistance. Cage goes to find Rita because now he has the chance to get to know her with the advantage of all the time he already has spent with her. And since her last words to him were that she wish she would know him better, they both get that chance without the threat of death hanging over them both. Hence the smile. And of course the song over the end credits is perfect for expressing that.
Hi Jacqueline and Lamby 😊. I refer to this movie as Groundhog Day on steroids. I think it might have been one of the last films Bill Paxton made before he passed away. Hope you have been well as always and Happy spooky season.
@@reactswithjax it is me David. Saying you are like Sherri Lewis with Lambchop. I'm still around Jacqueline. Paxton is one of my favorite actors. I wanna ask are you and Lamby going to dress up for Halloween? Btw my bday is on a Friday this month this year.
You asked if it's realistic militarily? Paxton perfectly encapsulates every NCO lifer from the South I ever met during my time! What a great performance he gave. . .
The ending, although brief and somewhat ambiguous, is meaningful to me. If you think about it, Cage went up to Rita in full officer uniform (a Major) and yet she still addressed him exactly the same way as when he was only a private. I think it made him smile and giggle because it signified her genuine character. She is being a sass to him whether he's at the bottom or her superior. 😂 ♥
I've rewatched this film so many times, and it never gets less entertaining. I wish it was advertised a little better, because it nails the videogame film (it's based on a manga, so it makes sense). "Find me when you wake up" still gives me chills every time.
Edge of Tomorrow is a movie that is very reminiscent of Dark Souls, where you have to learn the map and the opponents' rhythm to survive and advance in the game. Tom Cruise played the role of the player very well and Emilly Blunt was a great tutorial, guiding us and explaining the story to us who watched the film. I don't even need to say how good this movie was, it's a wonder in our face and I hope there's a game based on this movie, because I want to play it immediately. I loved the reactions, I've never seen anyone as excited, surprised and amazed as Jax was. I had forgotten what it was like to have reactions like that.
I always looked at it as if his absorption of Alpha blood allowed him to be reset, when the Omega did the resetting. Then when he absorbed the Omega blood, he absorbed it's power to do the actual resetting.
The death of the Omega is like dropping a stone in water. The ripples of time move away from the death at the center. Which means the death of mimics in the past and future. The death of the Omega killed the mimics through time. Cage absorbed the power from the Omega before he died thereby resetting time. So Cage reset 24 hours before the beach invasion and the mimics were already dead. The war was over. Hope that helps Jax. ✌️😉
In this fictional world, nobody has killed an Omega and got Omega blood on them before so nobody can really know what happens in that case. So viewers are free to theorize whatever they want regarding Cage's Omega powers and won't necessarily be wrong. Brilliant.
Yeah what they said, the day is reset, a day earlier, but all of the aliens are dead, and he is not. They keep talking about a sequel, but it hasn’t happened hopefully someday. Glad you liked it. I really enjoyed their chemistry too.
If you listen to the announcement, the aliens were being taken out without resistance since the Omega was gone. There was no "brain" controlling the alien army without the Omega. Also, if you think about how Tom Cruse is the only person who remembers from reset to reset what happened before, the mimics were all in the same boat. For every failed battle, the Omega could replay it as many times as needed to win. The rest of the mimics were acting as if it was all new to them every single repeat but with the Omega telling them what to do. The Omega was their advantage. Killing it and at the same time resetting the day took the aliens' advantage away.
no wait... You missed the part where the war was over. In the voice over, the general guy is saying somehow there was a surge of energy originating from the Louvre... which incapacitated all of the Mimics. He then goes on to say "We believe we are going in to take this victory" - thinking that there will be little to no resistance from the Mimics in the coming battle - which will be no battle because the war was over. Company J and our two heroes took the day - they won the day before tomorrow... right on the edge of doom. With the destruction of the Omega the war was over. Cage lucked out once again and was reset earlier. This means everyone was still alive because the battle at the beach does not happen. Cage also lucked out that he was not conscripted to be at the front lines because he never met the general and also that it was all over - it's all in the voice over.
Actually, that Looper article was wrong about the ending. When Cage died after killing the Omega, he absorbed the Omega's power, and the power was not gone because the Omega was dead. He now has that power indefinitely.
What happened is that as he killed the Omega it tried to reset to a point in time when it was still alive and its position was unknown, but the damage was so severe that it couldn't reset its own position and instead only reset the character back to that time because of the blood. The surge of power was the attempt of the Omega to reset but it was already dead but the reflex triggered. That's why the humans would now be able to mop up because essentially the brain, the Omega that was driving all the tactical elements and logistics, is dead but bits of the body (the mimics) are still scattered around but have no leadership.
This movies is inspired by the japanese novel "All You Need Is Kill", and later a manga (graphic novel) as well. Both have a different storyline and ending, though "Edge of Tomorrow" takes the core idea and some of the main scenes from them.
The aliens are not constrained by time. Everything that happens to them still has been done even when time is reset for the humans. So when he defeats the prime and resets, the aliens have been defeated because they don't reset.
In interviews, Emily said she had to be in the best shape of her life to sell herself as a warrior. Talk of Part 2 has long been thrown around. Both leads are game if the story is good and they both have time in their busy schedules.
"Knight and Day" with Cruise and Cameron Diaz is a fun action/romcom you'd love. As well as "Oblivion," which many are recommending. Fabulous reaction videos, Jax. Best I've seen so far.😊
They did defeat the aliens, that burst of energy mentioned was the death signal coming through the time stream. Tom Cruise's character was able to jump back to that point in time, selected because it was the first scene he was "physically" in at the beginning of the film, and he carried the signal back with him. They're wearing EXO-Suits that are hydraulically boosted, meaning the soldiers don't need to put any extra effort into moving around in them, as their speed and strength is augmented; because the frame and equipment are supported by the hydraulics. This tech exists, but isn't battle ready, as it's still in the prototype phase...
"What kind of movie do you want to watch? Action adventure? Sci-fi time travel? Slapstick comedy? War movie? Offbeat romance with an excessively happy ending?" "Yes."
Remember it's one organism. They killed the big Omega, therefore all the aliens are also dead, like it showed when the explosion happened, or at least the ones attached to and controlled by this particular Omega. So, Cruise has the power to re-set the day again, but at an Omega level, ... so he went back another day before he landed and everything is still dead. The General was heard talking about how an energy surge was detected in Paris, which is the explosion/the killing of the Omega, and all the aliens are apparently inactive and they believe they are marching to a complete victory, which they are. Cruise reset the day/days and he goes to talk to Rita, roll credits. I think you might have been talking over the proof that everything is fine when the General was addressing the world at the end.
Listen to the general talking at the end he said they detected large surge of energy it was the omega so they were going after it. He just has a stronger time warp since he has the omegas blood . They just didn’t show anything else past that. It’s open ended for the planned sequel
I always call this like a Sci-fy/Action Groundhog Day, but you haven't seen that (or at least reacted to it), so might not get the reference. This movie does the time jumping mechanic perfectly imo. It's like gaming, you fail, learn and repeat, each time getting further. Can't have a code word because she would forget it each day he dies. She wouldn't have had the conversation in her timeline. I think of it like a save in a video game. Cage first died on the beach and it reset 24hrs before that because that's when an Alpha died. It stayed at that spot until the night prior of the day of the invasion, they killed the Omega and he got the power to reset one more time (24 hrs from that point) That's why he was in the helicopter arriving again. I believe he still has the power since he has now become the Omega?
The Omega reset the day when it died, but the Omega is still dead for good (it had one last reset). That means all the mimics are still dead/unresponsive even after the reset. Because they are a hive mind and tied to the Omega. Tom Cruise got the Omega's blood on him when he died but since he is human and not alien, he got reset but was allowed to live since his nervous system isn't tied to the Omega. Once an Omega dies, all the aliens can't function, that includes after the reset
Iirc, the moment the Omega dies, all other mimics under it die. As I understand it, when the Omega got hit with the grenades, it attempted to escape the explosion by resetting, but the explosion was too big and completely destroyed it. Everyone linked to the Omega still got reset (including Cage), but then the Omega "finished" dying after resetting, taking all the other mimics with it, leaving Cage fully reset and healed by grace of being sort of an "infected human" rather than a mimic.
They did defeat the aliens.
The general at the end is describing the surge of energy that the omega gave off when it died, which killed the entire alien force.
Him getting the blood again at the very end and resetting one final time was just luck, they won anyway, he just expected to die doing it.
They have nothing to fight at the end, the aliens are already all dead when he resets. He goes to meet her again just to get to know her properly.
I agree with everything you said with the exception of "get to know her properly." Because he changed what happened it also means he would never get to know her. "Have I got something on my face?" what about her attitude leads you to believe she would even give him the time of day?
@@lexwells4763 LOL he knows everything about her and he can prove it, after that she will give him the time of day he just has to say "your middle name is ROSE", so what you said makes no sense.
@@xxn0cturn3xxHopeless romantic. You can believe that if you want, but she is as hard as nails and I don't see her getting to know her in this alternate time he created. Its the price of changing reality.
@@lexwells4763 "Hopeless romantic"
You are delusional, only you mention romance, you cant just want to know people better? So what Tom cruise is gonna involve himself romantically with the male scientist that helped them too? The only hopeless romantic here is you.
@@lexwells4763 That is exactly the way she treats him upon their first meeting every single day. He has met her hundreds of times, spent hundreds of days with her. Which is exactly why his response to her abrasiveness is just to laugh, because he knows the person she is underneath it.
"My middle name, is Rose"
"No, Sir. I'm from Kentucky." RIP Bill Paxton.
This character must be a relative to Randall McCoy…..
Bill (game over dude!} Paxton🙂
One of his best performances was always in True Lies
pretty sure the line from Infinity War: -"I am not from Earth I am from Missouri." is the reference to this :D
He was a cool guy RIP Bill Paxton
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Jax: "I believe! So does Lamby!"
Lamby: "No. You are crazy."
That made me laugh out loud, well played!
Dragon Lamby would believe her!
I don't know who you're talking to. Lamby never reads the comments.
The naked soldier: “I didn’t mind the push-ups.”
Jax: “yeah but…you weren’t even doing them.”
Lol savage…
Hahaha!
@@reactswithjax lol... but I didn't think that was the same soldier - I thought the naked soldier was boisterous while the pushup guy was reserved. I could be wrong.
@@mannygee005 he gets bummed by the guy from Hitch hikers Guide To The Galaxy
Between her not wanting to talk about Hendricks and 24:00 him saying he wish he never met her. I think this is the best part of the story. Falling in love with someone, while watching them dying over and over. I think this is why he tried to do it without her. Love this movie and Oblivion.
oblivion is a massively underrated movie in my opinion! there are so few reactions to it.
That would be devastating, to have to watch someone you love die so many times.
Had he succeeded in doing it without her, he would have ensured that she died.
@@davidperkins6752agreed! Such a great movie too. Story, characters, and design of the film with the tech. Those drones are scary af!
@@davidperkins6752 underrated as in it's watchable
The military version of Groundhog Day.
Groundhog Day meets Starship Troopers - is what I always say
Another really fun movie with the same premise is Boss Level.
a lot of "groundhog day" movies out there...50 first dates, happy death day, palm springs, source code, run lola run, etc.
@@MrKINSM hey great list thanks
@@MrKINSM Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
Emily Blunt looked incredible in this film. Another underrated sci-fi movie with Tom Cruise is Oblivion.
And she act very good as a death angel.
Oblivion had one hell of a soundtrack.
Can we please stop with the "underrated" bs. Just bc you like something and others don't... Doesn't mean it's underrated...
@dabreal82 a movie that is generally liked, but not well known us pr definition underrated. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's not underrated.
@@dabreal82It did fine in box office but this was at the time when Marvel movies were having massive box offices so by comparison, from a studio perspective, it under performed. On top of that lots of folks were just hating on it because Tom Cruise was involved and iirc he had some pretty bad PR at the time from his divorce and Scientology drama. When it hit streaming and rental, people realized they slept on it and that it was better than most of the big action flicks that were coming out at the time,
So, by definition, it was underrated. Same for his other movie Oblivion. It took a couple years for people to come around on it. While I agree at this point calling it "underrated" is not true because the nerdosphere has embraced it, most reactions I see from folks who had no idea it even existed, broadly it is a fair way to describe it. It was under appreciated when it came but now is widely loved.
The author of the light novel this was based off on -- Hiroshi Sakurazaka -- was an old-school gamer. Games back then (like Super Mario Brothers, Contra, Galaga, or Sonic the Hedgehog) didn't have save files, so when you died and spent all of your lives you had to start all over from the beginning.
You get to the point where you'd know what to do before something happened, because you've already gone through that part before. His experiences playing those games led to him writing the novel "All You Need is Kill".
Those are powered exo suits, you don't carry them, they carry you.😊
Up until the point when Rita steals your battery pack, that is, hehe .🤪
@@PaperclipClips well, not for long
Except the _actors_ actually _did_ have to carry them, which was apparently quite a chore!
In this case the actors were carrying this science fiction un powered exo suit.
@@bigdream_dreambig wrote the same at the same minute … funny random moment. 👌
Well, no Jax, the war is over and we won. When Tom blew up the Omega all the Mimic troops froze dead like spiders. Then the Omega power reset the day even early than before, like you read on the blog. The General then mentions in his speech they detected a "large energy serge" early that morning and while it's not on your reaction you posted I remember him then saying in the movie "Russian and Chinese troops pushing through Europe unopposed" or somthing like that. So then it's just GG we won thanks to Tom, Emily and J squad.
Such a great movie concept and experience. I'm so glad you enjoyed it so much, I had a feeling you would, as it's one of my favorite movies. So great to share this one with you.
Fun fact, Edge of Tomorrow is often referred to as "Live. Die. Repeat." thanks to an excellent advertising poster.
And, what was regarded at the time of the movie's release, a terrible title.
@@kwebb121765 and right now the sequel is on imdb known a "Live Die Repeat and Repeat" hopefully they'll change it.
War is not over. Only one Omega was destroyed, one battle was victorious. There is sequel in works that will be about rest of war.
surge
but they killed the omega after meeting j squad. how did they register the energy surge of the omega's death before tom's character even met the general??? 🤔
"For having no weapons, Tom Cruise has been able to survive a lot."
He survived *because* he had no weapons.
The Mimics have already been replaying this day for a long time. We don't know how long, but if you assume that the Mimics initially did not know about the invasion, they would have been resetting the day over and over in their attempts to perfect their response. That's why, when a soldier fires a heavy weapon at the Mimics, he is immediately killed by counterfire. The Mimics already know where he is because they have played that part of the "game" before. Cage can't figure out how to get his suit to work. So he's not any kind of threat at all. The Mimics are focusing on the soldiers who are a threat. They know exactly who those soldiers are and exactly when those soldiers need to be eliminated.
The presence of the silver Mimic means that the Mimics are trying something new in that part of the game board on this playthrough, so the silver Mimics introduces a wildcard element, since its interactions with the soldiers it encounters haven't been part of any playthrough before. The Mimics don't know how any of the soldiers will react to its presence. So, while Cage would have died on every previous playthrough, this time he survives because he had the opportunity to kill a silver Mimic at the right place and time. And he only succeeded at that because, as a soldier, he's incompetent.
silver? They're called Alphas
Rita is my favorite strong female character next to Lt. Ellen Ripley and Sarah Conner. The fact she uses a helicopter rotor as a sword is so badass.
The helicopter rotor sword was such a good idea that Marvel copied it with Thanos in Endgame. His double-bladed sword is literally the rotor from the Thanos-copter that he flew in a cheesy 1980s comic (the Thanos-copter also showed up as an easter egg in the first season of Loki).
In the comics she says she uses the blade (and other melee weapons) because bullets run out too quickly. Also it makes sense that it's a helicopter blade because she'd need something she could make quickly in the area, and having a power suit to wield it, you can go bigger than just a simple sword.
My understanding is that there are no combat-capable aliens left to fight at the end. After Cage resets, he watches the general's press conference where he talks about that.
40:15 You still missed it... all the Aliens are done. Since the Omega died, and it was the brain, the alien species is "brain dead". There will be no combat, just the disposal of the alien bodies.
Basic rundown is the movie takes place over 3 days.
day 1 movie intro , day 2 base , day 3 beach.
Cage got the power on day 3 and reset back to day 2 most of the movie.
When he lost the power it was morning of day 2 and they kill the omega on day 2 night.
So when he gets reset with the omega blood it resets to day 1 when the movie starts.
But since the omega was dead the mimics had no "brain" and couldn't fight back.
Because at the end of the movie…they are attacking the Louvre to kill the Omega…before they ever get on the beach..time is re-set much earlier…before he even meets the General and ends up in handcuffs…but he will be able to tell Rita the story..and her middle name is Rose…and he smiles…and he is still a major, an officer…in the US Army…
Jax is one of the only people to be as thoroughly amused as I was upon hearing:
"You're an American..."
"No sir, I'm from Kentucky."
Kentucky educational system checks out.
Fun fact: The original story of "edge of tomorrow" is from a manga, light novel called "All you need is kill". And its original is even more profound while the movie focuses on fighting and entertainment
And so begins the Lambie Rebellion... :) 14:15 Also, Emily Blunt said wearing those suits was exhausting for both her and Cruise in at least a couple of interviews. They are not exo-skeletons in real life. :)
I am so glad you recognize the sheep uprising is coming!!
Oh, the rebellion is long underway! Check out Jax's reaction to Zootopia to get what I mean.
39:46 The last line in the article is not correct. The Omega couldn't reset the day in the end because it was already dead. It was Cage who reset the day after he got the blood of the Omega in him, essentially making him a human Omega. The aliens stay dead in the end because they're all one organism that's a part of the dead Omega (15:03) and Cage is not. But it makes me wonder; if Cage ever have kids, and he resets time, will his kids also know that?
Will they have his powers
all he needs is to get some blood and he can't reset anymore and everything is baxk to normal.
Fetuses share the mother's blood, not the father's.
@@darkhoof69 then you couldn't identify (or rule out) a father by blood type. I don't think they share it.
@@darkhoof69 true but she still could have some in her system just not enough for powers.
The scene when they recruit the unit is so good. He knows everything about everyone of them which means he tried to make it through the beach with every option he had and failed, probably multiple times.
I'd love a counter to see how many attempts he took in total.
I'd love to see how many attempts it took as well. He could have been stuck in that time loop for over a year.
@@reactswithjax Honestly pretty likely. I don't know how many attempts they show on-screen, but it's clear that he's done a significant amount more than that as we go later into the movie. Also, the Angel mentions having seen someone die over 300 times, so she probably also had it for around a year if we also factor in that she must have had a certain amount of adjustment period just like he did.
@@reactswithjax It was far longer than a year. Rita experienced her day "over 300 times", but Cage did far more than she ever did. It's likely that Cage experienced this day over a thousand times.
The female character of Groundhog Day (1993) is also called Rita
From my understanding, this film is based on All You Need Is Kill, a Japanese science fiction light novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, published in 2004, with illustrations by Yoshitoshi Abe. I remember seeing it years back and thinking, "Huh, they look like Spartans from the Halo games," who themselves were inspired by the Mobile Infantry from the Starship Troopers (1988) anime, which featured power armor designs that would later inspire Halo: Combat Evolved (2001), bringing things full circle by 2004 with All You Need Is Kill.
I do wish we got the power armor from the light novel or manga, as they looked amazing. However, the idea that the exo-suits in the film are prototypes still being tested is a unique concept. Humanity wasn’t fully prepared, so what we’re seeing throughout the film is essentially a large-scale field test. If they ever make a sequel, I’d love to see more advanced suits that give off Spartan vibes from Halo and, of course, All You Need Is Kill.
You are correct. Its loosely based, akin to how similar Starship Troopers is to its respective source material, perhaps even less related, but it is definitely directly inspired by All You Need Is Kill.
@@TearDownGenesis it's directly inspired in that the director himself said this was a movie adaptation to the manga
@@NewsofPE it is, but there are quite a few differences. For one in the manga both main characters had the power at the same time, and even started to learn how to evolve it.
@@YukoValis And the changes (especially to the characters) make it better than the light novel / manga imo. Which is rare. I can't think of another LA adaptation that is better than its respective manga or anime source.
14:54 🤣🤣🤣 Lammy is a skeptic, and I respect that.🐑🥰
lamby*
@@Heroo01 Not how it's spelled in her captions.
@@SilentBob731 Captions are done by a computer so they are by sound, not the actual English spelling of "lamb". If the caption was typed by a person then said person is illiterate.
@@paulmartin2348 I'm referring to an animated caption Jax put up in one of her reactions. I would also spell it with a "b", but that's not the way she does.
There is an unwritten rule that states if you watch this movie you have to watch Oblivion too
"Today the code word is Oblivion..."
Lol 🤣😆
"Those things look exhausting. Like, just the sheer muscle you'd have to have to carry it." That's the point of a powered exoskeleton. It does all the carrying so you don't have to.
To be fair this exoskeleton sucks. They're slow and they look so vulnerable. If they have exoskeleton like the one on G.I. Joe I think they'll have best chance on taking on those aliens.
@@khaiylex7866 Still better than the Matrix ones.
Not as vulnerable as they'd be without it. It's nearly impossible to kill mimics hand-to-hand without superhuman strength, and the exoskeleton provides it. The mimics are always faster than the humans anyway. It sacrifices agility and quickness in exchange for a soldier still being able to fight hand-to-hand if he runs out of ammo.
@@khaiylex7866 it's the near future, what do you expect?
@@peteg475Have you ever tried to kill a Mimic hand to hand?
My theory of the ending: it was the same "reset effect" when he died on the beach and in Paris. However, he died earlier in Paris than on the beach. It was nighttime in Paris well before the beach assault was to begin.
It's all relative to the moment he died covered in alien blood as to which day starts over.
That's not a theory, that's just what happened. He died 18 hours sooner, so he reset 18 hours sooner.
@@bable6314 When it comes to time travel, I consider it all to be a theory -- logical assumptions based on observed events.
Consider this -- before that final day of fighting and before he received the blood transfusion, he was able to go further and further into the day of the battle and eventually to that dam which was a trap.
He was able to survive the beach landing, then died at another location time after time until he figured out how to get past that point. But, no matter how far he progressed after the landing, he always started over at the same exact point in time -- him waking up on the tarmac.
If the reset was based on a specific number of hours, why did he not reset to different times later in the day as he survived longer and longer the next day? That inconsistency tells me the theory is either more complicated or has exceptions to it.
It's possible resets are in increments other than a single hour. Or maybe the resets take you back to a specific point in time, kind of like save points in a video game. Once you get past the next save point, you'll always reset to that point. By Tom regaining the power to reset the day and dying before the beach landing ever started, he went back to an earlier save point.
Another good question would be, if Tom died at the same time he killed the Alpha, did he replace the Alpha as far as being able to reset the day? If so, then killing the Omega and reseting the day as the Omega might mean he has a longer reset capability than the Alpha.
Just another theory,, of course.
This, and Oblivion are probably the two most underrated Tom Cruise sci-fis.
So true, Oblivion is one of my favourite movies👌
Oblivion is REALLY good.
Absolutely loved Oblivion (and I promise, not solely because of Olga…😉), very underrated film. I’m not necessarily a huge TC fan, but this & Oblivion are truly fun, well-made films.
“And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?”
@@thegunslinger1363 such a great quote.
The ending isn't complicated at all. You're misreading the synopsis that you looked up. The omega reset the day at the end, not Tom Cruise, but because it was dying when it reset all of the other mimics, that required it to survive, died in the reset. Meaning when Tom Cruise wakes up the day prior, all of the mimics are already dead because of a wave of energy(the omega's last attempted reset) that occurred right before he woke up, as is explained in the news reading during the movie. And, because the omega is dead, there is no longer a time looping ability tying off the loose end.
One of the best live-action adaptations from manga.
I really like this film ending and little tweak. Because the manga version is so sad ending for me.
Subjectively I love a happy ending than bittersweet ending or sad ending.
LMAO! Best encouragement I have heard! "You can do it! You only got stabbed a little!"
I loved this movie when I first saw it...then as I re-watched this movie about half a dozen times in the intervening years, it has slowly worked it's way into my top 5 all time favorites!
14:16
Jax: "I believe. So does Lamby."
Lamby: "No. You are crazy."
🤣🤣🤣 The sass on that creature! 🐑
Hahaha!
Jax: I believe you
Lammi: Nah, he cray cray
Yet an other killer performance from Bill Paxton...that guy had such a range......I get really sad everytime I see him nowadays
It's like Cruise keeps playing a virtual video game and is learning how to anticipate the enemy.
Yes. The Omega is killed the night before the invasion. So the reset is back 24 hours on the helicopter. But he's covered in the Omega's blood right before he dies, so Cage basically becomes the Omega for one last reset that he triggers by dying. But since the actual Omega is gone, that's the end.
As far as I can see, you're the first to properly explain the ending...
I have just one complaint with that analysis. IMO only the Omega is capable of resetting the day, with the alphas/Cage merely being the automatic triggers. I don't think the Omega died right at the grenade explosion. If it did, no reset would have happened when Cage died a moment later covered again in the blood. I think the Omega was on its last legs when Cage died - then the day reset to the helicopter trip - and then the Omega died, along with all its mimics.
My guess is the Omega is the only being that isn't effected by its time reversing ability. I think this is how it can retain its memories (that it presumably then shares with its alphas). This would explain why Cage was able to reset the day and why the Omega wasn't "reset" back to perfect health along with everyone else.
Just my take anyway.
all good stuff. Entirely possible that Cage took over the reset point of the Alpha he killed. That Alpha's reset point was set by the Omega. There is no explanation about the Omega but the Omega could have had a reset point as well which was a day before the Alpha's reset point. Cage took a reset one last time using the Omega's reset point. Remember the original Alpha that Cage killed?, we assume that Alpha never came back to life again, and therefore the Omega also never comes back either but Cage did a final reset one last time but there was no battle left to fight and all the Mimics on Earth were incapacitated.
Oblivion was another good Tom Cruise Sci-fi that came out around this time. it reminds me of like an old 50s sci-fi book.
37:00 so, you always reset to one day prior to your time of death when you first acquired the power. Cage's initial time of death was 24 hours after he woke up on the duffel bags, and it no longer changes after that, regardless of how quickly he dies.
But then he lost the power, and reacquired it when they made the Louvre attack a couple hours before the final battle was supposed to be launched, and before his initial time of death. This made him wake up a couple hours before the first reset point, which landed him in the helicopter for his meeting with the general.
And since the Omega's death was permanent across time, it died the instant Cage reset back.
"before he met Mad-Eye Moody's character"
Fck, I love your commentary.
"Come on, come on, believe him!" --- and then, THAT LOOK 🤣classic
Everything MSG Farrell says, like "Battle is the great redeemer, the fiery crucible in which the only true heroes are born." Or when they are caught playing cards: Farrell: "And what is my definitive position on the concept of fate?" J Squad: "Through readiness and discipline, we are masters of our fate." then Farrell says: "You might call that notion ironic. But trust me, you'll come around." Through his death, Cage is literally "reborn" into the hero, thanks to battle. He is, indeed, redeemed. Also, he only becomes the hero because he trains... readiness and discipline are now what he is about, and this makes him a great soldier; and more to the point, allows him to control his own fate!
This movie is an underrated gem. Based on a manga called 'All You Need is Kill'. The editing is really tight, giving you just enough information to go "Oh, we're at this bit now," without having to see everything over and over again.
Fun facts about Emily Blunt's character:
The sword she uses is made of a helicopter blade, and the reason she uses a sword is because when she was doing the resets, she got sick of constantly running out of ammo.
When she's getting off the bus and one of the guys calls her the 'Full Metal Bitch' and she punches him, that's Emily Blunt's IRL brother.
Think this is one of those films a lot ppl forget when they list off Cruise's films and this one is really good
5:10 “I think he’s gonna survive til the end of the movie, at least.”
I got a huge laugh out of that!!
Great reaction as usual! ❤
I love the way you just allow yourself to be immersed in the movie, like you still ask questions but you are enamored by the movie without wanting to try and poke a bunch of holes in the plot
Re: the ending. They do *NOT* have to fight the war again after the last reset. Killing the Omega killed all the mimics in the past, present, and future. The war was won, as was explained in General Brigham's public address at the end.
28:07 Well well well, guess im not the only one who jumped here. And im watching your reaction using a laptop and my phone is a mile away... we got pranked Jax.
Hahaha! The phone ringing always gets me!
When he was covered by the Alpha's blood at the end after the explosion, he again reset 24 hrs back to the early morning, when he was sleeping on the helicopter.
lamby had all the best lines today 🤣 REALLY ENJOYED your reaction! 👍☺
Thank you so much!
I understood the ending to be, when he got covered in the omegas blood at the end, he took over the omega’s ability to reset the day. But, since they destroyed the omega and the mimic’s survival was dependent on the omega; the mimics were now completely gone but he’s got the ability to reset the day if he needed to.
Let me explain something about the military, especially boot. When they give you a punishment, you do the punishment. Because trust me, they can always give you a worse punishment.
Tom Cruise, Ellen Ripley and Sarah Conne: I'm in no danger. I'd just get in the way. I'd drop down and have a picnic.
Now, just imagine he lives an intire life and after passing out with 80-100 years old he resets everything again getting back to 35-40 years old(don't know how old is he now). could be hell or paradise depending on the perspective.
Yea you might missed a bit at the end. The Omega was an omnipresent being, meaning that it existed in all timelines simultaneously. So when Cage killed it, it also dies in all timelines - past, present and future. This time Cage was touched by Omega blood, then able to returned to the point where the story begins, the aliens are now weakened (not defeated), and the chance for humanity to win is now greater, because the aliens can't reset the day anymore. Hope that helps.
I think without the Omega they are mindless.
This movie is like Groundhog Day with a twist.
This movie is soooooo underrated. It's amazing. It shows off some amazing character growth. It touches on the horrors of war, the skill gained by repetition, and how deeply war buddies can bond.
As far as the ending goes, when Cage kills the Omega he gets covered in its blood. The Omega is the one that resets the day and learns what humanity does. So the more they fight the more the Omega can learn and counter it which is how they are utterly dominating mankind. When the Omega dies Cage gets its power one last time but since the Omega is dead the day resets to Cage instead of the Omega. He resets earlier than the rest of the movie because he died earlier than he did originally. With the Omega dead the Mimics have no leadership or direction and are indeed just braindead. So the military sweeps through meeting no resistance.
Cage goes to find Rita because now he has the chance to get to know her with the advantage of all the time he already has spent with her. And since her last words to him were that she wish she would know him better, they both get that chance without the threat of death hanging over them both. Hence the smile. And of course the song over the end credits is perfect for expressing that.
I just realized the guy that plays Dr. Carter in this movie also plays as Locke in Game of Thrones.
Hi Jacqueline and Lamby 😊. I refer to this movie as Groundhog Day on steroids. I think it might have been one of the last films Bill Paxton made before he passed away. Hope you have been well as always and Happy spooky season.
Hello and happy spooky season! Bill Paxton was great in this and it's such a shame he isn't here anymore. Thanks for watching!!
@@reactswithjax it is me David. Saying you are like Sherri Lewis with Lambchop. I'm still around Jacqueline. Paxton is one of my favorite actors. I wanna ask are you and Lamby going to dress up for Halloween? Btw my bday is on a Friday this month this year.
One of the smartest SF movies. Thanks for reacting to this.
You asked if it's realistic militarily? Paxton perfectly encapsulates every NCO lifer from the South I ever met during my time! What a great performance he gave. . .
The ending, although brief and somewhat ambiguous, is meaningful to me. If you think about it, Cage went up to Rita in full officer uniform (a Major) and yet she still addressed him exactly the same way as when he was only a private. I think it made him smile and giggle because it signified her genuine character. She is being a sass to him whether he's at the bottom or her superior. 😂 ♥
I've rewatched this film so many times, and it never gets less entertaining. I wish it was advertised a little better, because it nails the videogame film (it's based on a manga, so it makes sense).
"Find me when you wake up" still gives me chills every time.
"Mad Eye Moody's character" 😂
Edge of Tomorrow is a movie that is very reminiscent of Dark Souls, where you have to learn the map and the opponents' rhythm to survive and advance in the game. Tom Cruise played the role of the player very well and Emilly Blunt was a great tutorial, guiding us and explaining the story to us who watched the film.
I don't even need to say how good this movie was, it's a wonder in our face and I hope there's a game based on this movie, because I want to play it immediately.
I loved the reactions, I've never seen anyone as excited, surprised and amazed as Jax was. I had forgotten what it was like to have reactions like that.
This is one of my favorite movies ever
I always looked at it as if his absorption of Alpha blood allowed him to be reset, when the Omega did the resetting. Then when he absorbed the Omega blood, he absorbed it's power to do the actual resetting.
The death of the Omega is like dropping a stone in water. The ripples of time move away from the death at the center. Which means the death of mimics in the past and future. The death of the Omega killed the mimics through time. Cage absorbed the power from the Omega before he died thereby resetting time. So Cage reset 24 hours before the beach invasion and the mimics were already dead. The war was over.
Hope that helps Jax. ✌️😉
In this fictional world, nobody has killed an Omega and got Omega blood on them before so nobody can really know what happens in that case. So viewers are free to theorize whatever they want regarding Cage's Omega powers and won't necessarily be wrong. Brilliant.
Yeah what they said, the day is reset, a day earlier, but all of the aliens are dead, and he is not. They keep talking about a sequel, but it hasn’t happened hopefully someday. Glad you liked it. I really enjoyed their chemistry too.
If you listen to the announcement, the aliens were being taken out without resistance since the Omega was gone. There was no "brain" controlling the alien army without the Omega.
Also, if you think about how Tom Cruse is the only person who remembers from reset to reset what happened before, the mimics were all in the same boat. For every failed battle, the Omega could replay it as many times as needed to win. The rest of the mimics were acting as if it was all new to them every single repeat but with the Omega telling them what to do.
The Omega was their advantage. Killing it and at the same time resetting the day took the aliens' advantage away.
no wait... You missed the part where the war was over. In the voice over, the general guy is saying somehow there was a surge of energy originating from the Louvre... which incapacitated all of the Mimics. He then goes on to say "We believe we are going in to take this victory" - thinking that there will be little to no resistance from the Mimics in the coming battle - which will be no battle because the war was over.
Company J and our two heroes took the day - they won the day before tomorrow... right on the edge of doom. With the destruction of the Omega the war was over. Cage lucked out once again and was reset earlier. This means everyone was still alive because the battle at the beach does not happen. Cage also lucked out that he was not conscripted to be at the front lines because he never met the general and also that it was all over - it's all in the voice over.
I have seen it 3 times and still get chills :D
Actually, that Looper article was wrong about the ending. When Cage died after killing the Omega, he absorbed the Omega's power, and the power was not gone because the Omega was dead. He now has that power indefinitely.
What happened is that as he killed the Omega it tried to reset to a point in time when it was still alive and its position was unknown, but the damage was so severe that it couldn't reset its own position and instead only reset the character back to that time because of the blood. The surge of power was the attempt of the Omega to reset but it was already dead but the reflex triggered. That's why the humans would now be able to mop up because essentially the brain, the Omega that was driving all the tactical elements and logistics, is dead but bits of the body (the mimics) are still scattered around but have no leadership.
This movies is inspired by the japanese novel "All You Need Is Kill", and later a manga (graphic novel) as well. Both have a different storyline and ending, though "Edge of Tomorrow" takes the core idea and some of the main scenes from them.
Excellent reaction. You figured it out more than most reactors. Thank you.
The aliens are not constrained by time. Everything that happens to them still has been done even when time is reset for the humans. So when he defeats the prime and resets, the aliens have been defeated because they don't reset.
This movie is basically Groundhog Day but with aliens and war 😂😂
In interviews, Emily said she had to be in the best shape of her life to sell herself as a warrior. Talk of Part 2 has long been thrown around. Both leads are game if the story is good and they both have time in their busy schedules.
"Knight and Day" with Cruise and Cameron Diaz is a fun action/romcom you'd love. As well as "Oblivion," which many are recommending.
Fabulous reaction videos, Jax. Best I've seen so far.😊
They did win, he got reset to when he first arrived but this time bells were ringing for victory. Killing the omega had a different effect.
reset the day
is code for life ending fantastic movie had to watch it multiple times to really enjoyed watching it with you and your sense of humor
They did defeat the aliens, that burst of energy mentioned was the death signal coming through the time stream. Tom Cruise's character was able to jump back to that point in time, selected because it was the first scene he was "physically" in at the beginning of the film, and he carried the signal back with him. They're wearing EXO-Suits that are hydraulically boosted, meaning the soldiers don't need to put any extra effort into moving around in them, as their speed and strength is augmented; because the frame and equipment are supported by the hydraulics. This tech exists, but isn't battle ready, as it's still in the prototype phase...
P.S.: The soundtrack of this movie is fantastic.
"What kind of movie do you want to watch? Action adventure? Sci-fi time travel? Slapstick comedy? War movie? Offbeat romance with an excessively happy ending?"
"Yes."
The ending was he reset all the way back to the beginning of the movie and he was the one that gave the Intel of where the omega really was in Paris
the kind of movie that gets better after rewatching over and over again 😊had plenty of fun in this reaction❤
Remember it's one organism. They killed the big Omega, therefore all the aliens are also dead, like it showed when the explosion happened, or at least the ones attached to and controlled by this particular Omega. So, Cruise has the power to re-set the day again, but at an Omega level, ... so he went back another day before he landed and everything is still dead. The General was heard talking about how an energy surge was detected in Paris, which is the explosion/the killing of the Omega, and all the aliens are apparently inactive and they believe they are marching to a complete victory, which they are. Cruise reset the day/days and he goes to talk to Rita, roll credits. I think you might have been talking over the proof that everything is fine when the General was addressing the world at the end.
Thanks for explaining that! That's an awesome ending!
I LOVE your wheezy laugh 😁. Makes me smile everytime.
It's a really great scifi story and concept.
This movie is basically Military version of "Groundhog day"🙂
R.I.P. Bill Paxton. Master Sergeant is a real rank. It's an enlisted rank, or senior non-commissioned officer, pay grade E-7 and E-8.
Listen to the general talking at the end he said they detected large surge of energy it was the omega so they were going after it. He just has a stronger time warp since he has the omegas blood . They just didn’t show anything else past that. It’s open ended for the planned sequel
Earlier not stronger.
You won the prize for getting the final reset. Congrats you are rare. The Omega was one day before the Alpha.
I always call this like a Sci-fy/Action Groundhog Day, but you haven't seen that (or at least reacted to it), so might not get the reference. This movie does the time jumping mechanic perfectly imo. It's like gaming, you fail, learn and repeat, each time getting further. Can't have a code word because she would forget it each day he dies. She wouldn't have had the conversation in her timeline.
I think of it like a save in a video game. Cage first died on the beach and it reset 24hrs before that because that's when an Alpha died. It stayed at that spot until the night prior of the day of the invasion, they killed the Omega and he got the power to reset one more time (24 hrs from that point) That's why he was in the helicopter arriving again. I believe he still has the power since he has now become the Omega?
The Omega reset the day when it died, but the Omega is still dead for good (it had one last reset). That means all the mimics are still dead/unresponsive even after the reset. Because they are a hive mind and tied to the Omega. Tom Cruise got the Omega's blood on him when he died but since he is human and not alien, he got reset but was allowed to live since his nervous system isn't tied to the Omega. Once an Omega dies, all the aliens can't function, that includes after the reset
The movie is actually a love story. We fall in love with Blunt just like he does. How can we not?
Iirc, the moment the Omega dies, all other mimics under it die. As I understand it, when the Omega got hit with the grenades, it attempted to escape the explosion by resetting, but the explosion was too big and completely destroyed it. Everyone linked to the Omega still got reset (including Cage), but then the Omega "finished" dying after resetting, taking all the other mimics with it, leaving Cage fully reset and healed by grace of being sort of an "infected human" rather than a mimic.