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Edge of Tomorrow
A mud-and-steel science-fiction war film that turns death into a rehearsal. One cowardly man keeps waking into the same doomed morning until fear wears into grit and hopelessness into a stubborn, rueful hope.
Edge of Tomorrow
Edge of Tomorrow

"Live. Die. Repeat."

27 May 2014 United States of America 114 min 7.6 (14,810)

Director: Doug Liman

Cast: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Brendan Gleeson, Bill Paxton, Jonas Armstrong

Action Science Fiction Growth through failure Fate versus choice Cowardice, courage and the making of a soldier Isolation and unshared memory War as a machine
Budget: $178,000,000
Box Office: $370,541,256

Edge of Tomorrow — Characters & Cast

Character Analysis

Bill Cage

Tom Cruise

Archetype: Reluctant hero / coward turned warrior Key Trait: Adaptability learned through endless repetition

Motivation

At first he wants to survive and escape. Later he wants to win the war and protect Rita.

Character Arc

He starts arrogant and clueless, a media officer who tries to avoid combat. Each reset strips away his fear and ignorance until he becomes a hardened warrior who is willing to sacrifice himself.

Rita Vrataski

Emily Blunt

Archetype: Warrior mentor Key Trait: Ruthless, pragmatic resolve

Motivation

To end the war by using the loop the way she once did.

Character Arc

She is a legendary war hero who has lived through a time loop herself. She trains Cage without mercy, and over the loops she moves from treating him as a tool toward a guarded closeness she never remembers.

Master Sergeant Farell

Bill Paxton

Archetype: Drill sergeant / comic foil Key Trait: Bombastic, preacher-like zeal about war

Motivation

To whip his squad into shape and deliver them to battle.

Character Arc

He barely changes, and that is the point. He is the constant of every loop, repeating the same speeches every day, and Cage learns to predict him.

Cast

Tom Cruise as Cage
Emily Blunt as Rita
Brendan Gleeson as General Brigham
Bill Paxton as Master Sergeant Farell
Jonas Armstrong as Skinner
Tony Way as Kimmel
Kick Gurry as Griff
Franz Drameh as Ford
Dragomir Mrsic as Kuntz
Charlotte Riley as Nance
Masayoshi Haneda as Takeda
Terence Maynard as Cruel Sergeant
Noah Taylor as Dr. Carter
Lara Pulver as Karen Lord
Madeleine Mantock as Julie

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