'Edge of Tomorrow' trailer: how many times have we been here?

It’s been awhile since we saw the first trailer for Edge of Tomorrow, which is best described as a sort of Groundhog’s Day meets Starship Troopers hybrid. Doug Liman directs this futuristic thriller, about an officer (Tom Cruise) who dies during a climactic battle against an alien force, only to find himself reborn on the same day. Stuck in an endless cycle of death, life, and death again, he and a fellow soldier (Emily Blunt) try to find a way to change the outcome of the battle. Check out the new trailer below.

I’m really intrigued by the concept behind this one, and I’m hoping Liman can keep the film entertaining without falling victim to the typical sci-fi and time travel clichés. We’ll find out when Edge of Tomorrow opens on June 6.

The story unfolds in a near future in which a hive-like alien race, called Mimics, have hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault, shredding great cities to rubble and leaving millions of human casualties in their wake. No army in the world can match the speed, brutality or seeming prescience of the weaponized Mimic fighters or their telepathic commanders. But now the world’s armies have joined forces for a last stand offensive against the alien horde, with no second chances.

Lt. Col. Bill Cage (Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and then dropped—untrained and ill-equipped—into what amounts to little more than a suicide mission. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an Alpha down with him. But, impossibly, he awakens back at the beginning of the same hellish day, and is forced to fight and die again…and again. Direct physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop—dooming him to live out the same brutal combat over and over.

But with each pass, Cage becomes tougher, smarter, and able to engage the Mimics with increasing skill, alongside Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski (Blunt), who has lain waste to more Mimics than anyone on Earth. As Cage and Rita take the fight to the aliens, each repeated battle becomes an opportunity to find the key to annihilating the alien invaders and saving the Earth.

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