Will audiences really want to see him in a movie that isn't already part of a franchise that they care about? Come to think of it.Ĭan ANY Original Action Movie Make Money This Summer? But Tom Cruise hasn't had a hit movie that wasn't a Mission: Impossible sequel in nine years. Tom Cruise is still household name - although not necessarily for all the right reasons - but is he still a "movie star?" A movie star can actually open a movie: audiences will turn out just to see him or her, whatever they're doing. Will Edge of Tomorrow rule or suck? That’ll have to wait for the review, but how will it impact the summer and the careers of the talent involved…? That’s an important part of Our Five Questions About Edge of Tomorrow. The plot may not be such a known quantity, and we can’t really worry about how Liman’s film will depict characters we all have been following for years, but the film’s release raises a series of questions that fans and Hollywood insiders are going to be asking themselves until audiences worldwide cast their votes by buying their tickets. Unlike all the supehero sequels and reboots competing for your attentions in Summer 2014, there hasn’t been as much attention focused on Edge of Tomorrow leading up to its June 6 release date because, unless you’ve read the book (and most Americans haven’t), there’s been nothing to compare it to, and very little speculate about.īut let’s not let Edge of Tomorrow off the hook that easily. Although it’s based on the novel All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, the new sci-fi thriller from director Doug Liman is perhaps most easily described as “ Groundhog Day with aliens.” Tom Cruise is stuck in a time loop at the start of an alien invasion, and as he relives the same day over and over again, he finds himself becoming exactly the warrior Earth needs to survive the attack.
Even one of the summer’s very few new intellectual properties, Edge of Tomorrow, looks suspiciously familiar. The way popular culture works these days, nothing is new.
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