From director Doug Liman comes the new sci-fi action film ‘All You Need Is Kill’ starring Tom Cruise based on a Japanese novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. The movie follows a soldier in a war against aliens who finds himself reliving his last day in the battle over and over again after being killed, causing him to be a better soldier with every return experience.
Sounds a lot like Bill Murray’s ‘Groundhog Day’, but in a science fiction setting…in the future… with aliens… and in a bloody war. Not so funny anymore, but it looks like it could be great!
Also starring is Emily Blunt as a soldier who fight alongside lead character Cruise, and Bill Paxton, a hardcore, gritty platoon sergeant. (Check below for the official synopsis)
Official Synopsis:
The story unfolds in a near future in which a hive-like alien race, called Mimics, have hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault, shredding great cities to rubble and leaving millions of human casualties in their wake. No army in the world can match the speed, brutality or seeming prescience of the weaponized Mimic fighters or their telepathic commanders. But now the world’s armies have joined forces for a last stand offensive against the alien horde, with no second chances.
Lt. Col. Bill Cage (Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and then dropped—untrained and ill-equipped—into what amounts to little more than a suicide mission. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an Alpha down with him. But, impossibly, he awakens back at the beginning of the same hellish day, and is forced to fight and die again…and again. Direct physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop—dooming him to live out the same brutal combat over and over.
But with each pass, Cage becomes tougher, smarter, and able to engage the Mimics with increasing skill, alongside Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski (Blunt), who has lain waste to more Mimics than anyone on Earth. As Cage and Rita take the fight to the aliens, each repeated battle becomes an opportunity to find the key to annihilating the alien invaders and saving the Earth.
