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''Edge of Tomorrow'' (also marketed with the tagline ''Live. Die. Repeat.'') is a 2014 American science fiction film film starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. Doug Liman directed the film based on a screenplay adapted from the 2004 Japanese light novel ''All You Need Is Kill'' by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. The film takes place in a future where Earth is invaded by an alien race. Major William Cage (Cruise), a public relations officer with no combat experience, is forced by his superiors to join a landing operation against the aliens. Though Cage is killed in combat, he finds himself in a time loop that sends him back to the day preceding the battle every time he dies. Cage teams up with Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski (Blunt) to improve his fighting skills through the repeated days, seeking a way to defeat the extraterrestrial invaders. In late 2009, Productions purchased the rights to the novel and sold a spec script to the American studio Warner Bros. Pictures. The studio produced the film with the involvement of , the novel's publisher Viz Media, and Australian production company Village Roadshow. Filming began in late 2012, taking place in England at Leavesden Studios outside London, and other locations such as Trafalgar Square and Saunton Sands. Nine companies handled the visual effects. The film was released in theaters on the weekend of , 2014, in 28 territories, including the United Kingdom, Brazil, Germany, Spain, and Indonesia. On the weekend of , 2014, it was released in 36 additional territories, including North America (United States and Canada), Australia, China, and Russia. The film grossed over in theaters worldwide and received largely positive reviews from critics. ==Plot== In the distant future, a race of extraterrestrials called Mimics has taken over continental Europe. In England, General Brigham, head of humanity's United Defense Force, orders Major William Cage, a public affairs officer with no combat experience, to cover the next day's amphibious assault in France. Cage objects to the dangerous assignment and threatens to blackmail Brigham to avoid it. Brigham has Cage arrested; Cage is knocked out trying to escape. He wakes in handcuffs at a forward operating base at Heathrow Airport and discovers he has been demoted to private, charged with desertion, and assigned to a combat squad named "J" squad under the command of Master Sergeant Farell. The invasion is a disaster for the humans. Cage, despite his inexperience and incompetence, kills a large Mimic but dies covered with its acid-like blood. He wakes up at Heathrow the previous morning; no one believes his story that he knows the invasion will fail. Cage repeats the loop of dying on the beach and waking at Heathrow until he encounters Sergeant Rita Vrataski during the invasion. The famous and brusque soldier recognizes his ability to anticipate events, and tells him to locate her the next time he "wakes up". Vrataski introduces Cage to Dr. Carter, a former government scientist and expert in Mimic biology. Cage learns that the kind of Mimic he killed in his first loop, an "Alpha", resets time when it is killed to give the Mimics an advantage in battle. Cage inherited this ability when he died doused in the Alpha's blood. Vrataski had gained this ability in a recent battle and became an effective killer of Mimics, but lost it after receiving a blood transfusion. She tells Cage that they must hunt the Mimics' hive mastermind, the "Omega", and destroy it. Over innumerable successive time loops, Vrataski trains Cage to make him a more formidable soldier. Frustrated by his continued failures Cage retreats to London during one loop, but learns that the Mimics will attack the city after defeating the humans in France. He and Vrataski spend many more loops learning how to survive the battle on the beach and get inland, based on his vision of the Omega hiding within a dam. After loops inevitably end in Vrataski's death, Cage decides to hunt the Omega alone, abandoning her and the rest of the invasion to doom on the beach. When he arrives at the dam, he discovers that the Omega is not there. Realizing that the vision was the trap, Cage kills himself before an Alpha can bleed him out and prevent him from resetting the day. Cage and Vrataski infiltrate the Ministry of Defence to obtain a prototype built by Carter that will allow Cage to discover the Omega's true location. After more failed loops they obtain the device, which reveals that the Omega is located under the Louvre Pyramid in Paris. They are injured as they flee; Cage is saved by a blood transfusion, removing his ability to reset time. Vrataski frees Cage and they return to Heathrow, where they convince Farell's squad to help destroy the Omega before the invasion will happen. They fly to Paris, where the other soldiers sacrifice themselves to get Cage and Vrataski beneath the Louvre. Vrataski distracts a waiting Alpha while Cage advances on the Omega. The Alpha kills Vrataski and mortally wounds Cage, but not before he primes and drops a grenade belt into the Omega's core, destroying it and neutralizing all Mimics. Cage's dying body floats down into a rising cloud of the Omega's blood. Cage wakes up en route to his first meeting with Brigham the day before. Brigham announces that Mimic activity has ceased following a mysterious energy surge in Paris. With the events leading to his arrest never happening, Cage travels to Heathrow on his own. None of his former squad recognizes him, and everyone he met during his previous lives treats him with the respect due to rank of an officer. Vrataski greets him with disrespect, causing Cage to laugh. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edge of Tomorrow (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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