The Edge of Tomorrow

A movie that I just saw recently was The Edge of Tomorrow, staring Tom Cruise. In the film an alien race invades earth for some purpose and to try and defeat the aliens the humans send a D-Day style invasion of France to try and take back Europe. Now the story line is pretty strange and complex, but none the less very interesting. Essentially, the aliens possess a weapon that allows them to reset time every time a certain one of there soldiers die. Tom Cruise kills one of these certain aliens and its blood gets on him allowing him to use their time resetting power. He then uses this power to try and find a way to destroy the machine allowing him to use this power and the aliens HQ.

            The editing in this film I think was extremely good, but I almost felt as if the shots were a little in consistent. The way the editor was able to convey what was a shot back in time and keep it in an order that made sense was very impressive. One very cool thing the editor did was what the editor did in the scene from JFK we watched. The editor took the dialogue from where Tom Cruise and his constituents are making the plan for their invasion and put it under the scenes of them actually acting out that part of the fight. Another, thing that really impressed me was the way the editor edited the scene where the platoon is talking. The way the editor was able to keep a cohesive conversation going with like 10 different people involved was amazing and extremely well done. Finally the most impressive thing that I think this movie did was changing the mood of the same scenes simply only using editing. Throughout the movie you see the same sequence of Tom Cruise waking up and ending up at the military base multiple times. However, though it’s the same scene the editor was some how able to change the scene just enough to give an entirely different feeling, it was absolutely amazing.

            The only bad thing I noticed about the film as far editing, which I don’t think is even the editor’s fault, was inconsistent shots. For instance, in one scene Emily Blunt is entering a building with Tom Cruise. When the camera cut to the inside of the building, however, Tom Cruise would be entering first. These small inconstancies stuck out to me, but I believe they were so minor you probably wouldn’t even notice them unless you were really analyzing the film.

            In the end I believer this is a great movie with a very cool storyline that keeps you constantly interested.