meh!

I knew the "groundhog" premise going in so I should have been prepared but after awhile, I got bored.
It might be all these big summer blockbusters kind of have the same feel to them. The fact that Tom Cruise keeps getting shot in the head so he can relive the day over was kind of disturbing. An action movie is only as good as it's villian and the fact that this movie lacks a real villian might have been what's missing.

I give it 2.5 stars.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Getting great reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.

Just rented. Very good. Very entertaining. A must see

i still have no idea why they didnt just call this movie "LIVE. DIE. REPEAT." like it says on the box in even bigger letters than the actual movie title. of course they wouldn't go with the proper name from the manga (japanese comics)-- "all you need is kill"

that hearkens a video game from back in the day of the original PS1 where this one fighting game featured 3d polygonal fighters going at it but their gimmick was that they could do a super move where they turn into beasts and start going HAM on each other. this game was fittingly called "beastorizer" in japan, which is a truly awesome name because it hearkens thoughts of beasts carnage explosions death and destruction, but all with an indelibly catchy name that just sounds all kinds of yeah coming off of your tongue: BEASTORIZER!

...so of course in america it was called "Bloody Roar" and i mean holy shit.... do you know what kind of mental image/s "bloody roar" conjures up? how about one of a big fat chick on her period screaming as she deposits a purple marble of rejected life on the floor in a ROOOOAAARRRRRR that woiuld make bob rohrman (RIP, right?) run and hide due to survival instincts.

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as for the movie itself? it's fine. tom cruise always does a good job of picking out quality sci-fi premises so you know what you're gonna get from a tom cruise sci-fi/action flick. for added fun you can go get really stoned b4 the movie and then try to figure out what the subtle/subliminal undertones are that make some profound pro-scientology point/message/etc.

this movie's ending perhaps had a bit too much ending ex machina, or would iit be deus ex ending? either way once the smoke clears and you reach the promised land you're just kind of like "what the fuck?"



yes miz, really. that's how they ended the flick.

ah well isnt tom cruise doing mission impossibe 5/6/whatever next?

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