Hell no this movie was absolute shit it was as deep as a kitty pool. The first problem with this movie was the stupidity of every single character except for Rita. Why in gods name does no one take stock in anything that the man who can predict the future say especially that general since this is not the first time he has heard about time travel stuff. Second problem why was Rita described as such a badass but every time she is on screen she sucks. Third problem even though this movie goes through all the work of telling and showing us how smart these aliens are they still did not have the intelligence to keep more than one gard when it has no means of defending itself other wise. Fourth problem which relates to the second problem everyone besides Tom cruise is useless. Fifth problem the inconsistency of how easily Tom cruise dies. Sixth problem that ending why in gods name does Tom cruise become God. Were the directors really that scared to have an ending where the crew sacrifices themselves to save humanity. That ending pretty much flips you the middle finger because the whole movie pretty much never happened, Tom never met Rita, Tom never met his squad, Tom never talked with the genral, and Tom never fought the aliens, and Rita never had to fight in Verdun which now makes me ponder did Hendrick even die? I honestly have no damn clue why anyone thinks that this movie was good, it was fun to watch but that is all. Oh on a side note I also hated how the fact that even though Tom had been fighting mimics all that time which should have boosted his reaction ablity he still couldn't handle those mechanized claws that moved way slower and far less sponanteous than mimics. Oh and speaking of the general what was the point in that character he was given two chances to save humanity when all else would seem lost. Anyone in his situation would cooperate and grasp at any straw if it means winning, but nope not this fucker he would rather lock up technology that might save the day, and try to lock up and kill humanities only hope. This movie was good like Naruto, Bleach, or any other main stream action shounen manga, Aka they suck but because the action is cool to watch you forgive the massive amounts of bull shit and say that the series is good
The only praises I can sing about this movie was first seeing Tom learn each pattern and how to react but that is the norm for time loop movies, second the scene where he feels utterly helpless and learns that he cannot save everyone but unfortunately the ending of this movie proves otherwise which throws out one of the key themes of time loop movie, and finally watching him grow as a character from selfish coward to selfless hero.
*Sigh* Classic case of a person who can't get past the novel to realize that all these questions are answered when you just try to think about the movie instead of asking the movie itself to solve every one of your questions straight up. SO Let me pick a random part out and show how you need to think.
" Oh and speaking of the general what was the point in that character he was given two chances to save humanity when all else would seem lost. Anyone in his situation would cooperate and grasp at any straw if it means winning, but nope not this fucker he would rather lock up technology that might save the day, and try to lock up and kill humanities only hope."
Okay, well let's say this general isn't a naive idiot, which, from the beginning you can see he isn't. As the movie CLEARLY states there was no point in Rita telling anyone about her powers because every time she did no one believed her except the one physicist. Or if they did they dissected her, not a great ending for her imo. Which means that the final loop involves her never telling anyone anything. MEANING that the General heard about some RANDOM scientist RANTING about TIME TRAVEL and spending RESOURCES to build a DEVICE. Now, AS a general he probably thought it was some scientist spending money on a fantasy, which, is pretty much what they do. So yes, he locked up the device because he had no REAL idea what it was and only had 1 guy who sounds crazy as fuck with NO PROOF about the claims that were being made.
OH, wait sir, you claim he should have just SAVED HUMANITY LIKE THAT? Cause that general OBVIOUSLY got to being a general by making very very quick decisions based on absolutely 0 proof whatsoever. The whole reason for that scene was for Tom Cruise to LITERALLY shoot down every chance at the general TRYING to think in that situation. Anytime he did Tom would just back it up with time travelling proof (as in telling the future and it coming true). But he still isn't being a complete idiot because he calls security after them after, meaning what he was ACTUALLY doing was making sure Rita didn't fucking blow his head off.
And what? You think he should have just straight up believed a guy who, just the last 24 hours was trying to fucking blackmail him?...Did you even watch the movie and think about the rational of what was happening?
I won't even bother with explaining the other points because some of use actually used our brain to think about the plot instead of wanting it to be given to us on a silver platter.
In the LN Rita had access to the power throughout the story, even while the story centered on the main character.
But anyway people who have told me to "Take my head out of my ass", need to do the same to themselves. You can't understand, that people have different expectations and standards. I know people who hated Harry potter's 3rd movie cause of slight character mis-matches and cuts from the book (I hate 4th-7th movie, cause it was just shit.). This was way bigger then what my friend got bothered by.
Like fg said, it only had ties to the original story. And that's not alright with me. Get over it. People already agree that it has changes in the story, and for me I see a lot of loopholes in terms of what aspects they changed for no good reason. If you can't face that there's people who get pissed off by silly changes then it's a problem from your side.
As for you sir, I understand your point. As a person myself who does prefer when things take from the source 100% I was disappointed at what they did. But also relieved at the fact that, it could have been really bad but wasn't. So all in all the movie didn't turn out to be a flop and the person who wrote the story got money for it and I had an enjoyable 2 hours despite it not being the same. Good for me, and if you don't want to look past it and try to enjoy the movie for what it is, a movie, than oh well, that's your decision. But all in all it covered a lot more wholes than the manga in my opinion, never touched the novel so no clue how it ties up ends.
Edited by TheUnknownMercenary, 10 June 2014 - 09:30 AM.