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Tango0106 Jun 2014 3:45 p.m. PST

"Super Mario Bros. fans: Remember when you found out how to get multiple 1-ups by meticulously bouncing on Koopa shells? Remember the exhilaration of knowing that with 99 lives you could keep trying things until you got it right and beat Bowser? Edge of Tomorrow is the movie version of that feeling—just with Tom Cruise. And aliens. And a kickass woman who is the hero instead of some stupid princess locked in a castle.

It's been said before—including by WIRED's own Angry Nerd—but Edge of Tomorrow, out today, might just be the best videogame movie not actually based on videogame. For years Hollywood has tried to make movies based on the games, from Resident Evil to Max Payne, but what director Doug Liman's movie proves is that they should've been based on videogames' narrative structure—the ability to continue after "Game Over" and discover something new. The joy of gaming is fighting a little further with every life, learning a little bit more about your enemy's weaknesses, until finally reaching victory…"
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haywire07 Jun 2014 10:48 a.m. PST

I liked it. Every time Tom Cruise died a laughed a little more. His reactions to dying just added to it.

RavenscraftCybernetics07 Jun 2014 5:40 p.m. PST

hmmm buy a ticket, see TC die many times. Im sorely tempted.

The G Dog Fezian07 Jun 2014 9:30 p.m. PST

Who knew it,s a comedy!

I enjoyed it….

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