Tom Cruise lived, died and repeated his fight against an invading swarm of aliens in the 2014 movie Edge of Tomorrow, which has landed on Netflix as of Saturday, September 7, and immediately goes onto my personal list of best Netflix movies to watch. I absolutely love this movie and the fact that it's found a passionate fan base after an initially disappointing run at the box office. But I have to be honest — I have no interest in a proposed Edge of Tomorrow sequel.
In case you missed Edge of Tomorrow when it was first released and have yet to discover it online, here's a quick summary. Based on the novel All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, Edge of Tomorrow follows Cruise's Cage, a military PR officer who gets conscripted into active duty as world forces are fighting an invasive breed of aliens known as mimics. Not properly trained, Cage scrambles on the battlefield and is killed by a mimic. However, having been covered in the alien's blood, Cage somehow wakes up the day before the battle, with everything playing out as it did before. He continues to die again and again in battle, but gets better each time, and eventually he's noticed by Rita (Emily Blunt), a skilled soldier who knows what Cage is going through because it happened to her. Together, they must figure out how they can defeat the mimics once and for all. All Cage has to do is die each and every day until they do.
