Trailers for this have just started cropping up on TV over here in Blighty...
Yeah, doesn't look that enthralling for me. Looks like much-of-a-muchness... and as others have already said, it seems like a rip off of other films.
After seeing his last attempt with the Moon rip-off Oblivion, and that Minority Report and War Of The Worlds weren't great either, I'm going off his attempts at Sci-Fi.
He's better in other types of action... he doesn't lend well to Science Fiction at all.
Minority Report was fantastic - one of the best Science fiction films of the 90s.
Can we just have you admit you dislike Tom Cruise? He is clearly the thing you whinge on about whenever one of these films comes up. I understand if you don;t like the guy, and i think that's absolutely enough of a reason to not like the films. His presence does not make the rest of the film terrible, though.
Oblivion is derivative, but again, I don't need films to bring totally original ideas to bear every single time. I love Boyle's Sunshine, and that doesn't bring anything new to the table, either. Science fiction films can still be good even when using ideas that have already been framed. Moon certainly did NOT use original ideas, at all. it's a great film, but not because of any twist - and moon uses concepts that had been around for DECADES - there just aren't many new ideas in today's post-modern society. Twists do not make a film, ever, IMO. There are great films with twists, and terrible films with twists. I maintain that the austere directorial vision of
Oblivion in the star of the show, as well as the fantastic score, and minimalist approach.
Why would you rave about the new X-men film, when it relies on a time-travel mechanic to fix continuity holes in the EXACT same way as Star Trek of 2009, but then slay this film you haven't even seen for not being original? X-men is completely and utterly unoriginal in almost every way. it's Star Trek meets The Terminator meets X-Men First Class. Zero original ideas. Is being unoriginal good or bad? Why does one film get a pass?
Meanwhile, Edge of Tomorrow is cleaning up, with a 90% fresh rating on RT currently. I will certainly be seeing it.