Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on July 2014

Those not fans of Tom Cruise will be glad to know that he dies in this movie. Several hundred times. Groundhog Day meets Starship Troopers. A smarmy Army PR flack is sent along with an invasion of alien-infested Europe. He dies quickly but wakes up 24 hours earlier, and goes through the doomed invasion another time, and then another, etc. It’s deja vu all over again.  He teams up with kick-ass commando Emily Blunt, nailing the Ripley/Sara Conner role. It’s a fun little puzzle picture, sharply written, imaginative, action-packed, unexpectedly funny and thoroughly entertaining. Adapted from a Japanese manga. (113 min)