
Based on the Japanese light novel “All You Need Is Kill” by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, with illustrations by Yoshitoshi Abe and directed by Doug Liman, the lesser-known film “Edge of Tomorrow” narrates humanity’s struggle against a formidable alien race called “mimics.” Major William Cage, played by Tom Cruise, who previously worked as a war effort spokesman and lacked battlefield experience, is unexpectedly thrown into the heat of combat. However, he finds himself trapped in a time loop that constantly resets to the beginning of a critical fight each time he perishes in it, which could potentially hold the secret to defeating the mimics.