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[@dougsmith3621]

Quick ending explanation as I interpret it: The other 'resets' were from the blood of the blue guys but the brain of the omega was still alive. When he got the omega blood on him at the end, the big brain was dead and the reset was more... uncontrolled and the aliens didn't reset with it (they had no unifying brain). The Omega was dead so it couldn't reset. Tom still had the memories (shown by his reset confusion) and when he met Emily's character at the end, the assumption is that he gives her the entire story and he can at least take her out to dinner or something. Happily ever after.

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

"The Omega was dead so it couldn't reset." Yes, that's it exactly. He got the blood on him so he could go back, but the Omega died and could not continue. Since the Omega also was the brains of the aliens, they all died when the Omega died.

[@christopherschreiber5805]

There's no real evidence in the film to back this up, so far as I remember, but I always kind of liked the idea that killing the alpha lets you temporarily take control of the Omega's power, whereas killing the Omega GIVES you the power, which means Cage could theoretically find a way for Rita to exist long enough to know him as well as he knows her. He doesn't just get the day. He gets ALL the time he lost. Maybe just me. I'm a romantic.

[@neilbiggs1353]

My interpretation is that the Omega was working from a 'baseline', so it existed at that point in time and the future. When Tom Cruise died, the Omega's blood carried him back to the 'baseline' as the last connection of the Omega, but as the Omega existed at all points in time, dying in one killed it in all, so now it is dead along with the minions

[@martind5653]

Also they deliberately changed the ending of the book for the holywood audience.

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

@@martind5653The movie is pretty different from the manga already, but I thought they did a good job. There's been talk for years about a sequel but I don't know where they could go with it and still make it interesting AND plausible.

[@maxwell7709]

"Find me when you wake up" is the best line in this film. When i heard it i immediately knew that this movie is gonna be awesome

[@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710]

" What the Hell were you thinking? " - Master Sargeant Farell

[@tfpp1]

@@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710 “You told me NOT to think!” - Rooster

[@warpviix]

Cage's "How many times?" was not explored enough.

[@shinyhappyrem8728]

@@warpviix: we need to go deeper

[@fikrihusnul522]

​@@warpviixit will be a long series with 20 episodes minimum

[@phoenixdzk]

To explain the ending: the first time Cruise's character died, it was the claymore vs Alpha scene around the morning of Operation Downfall. The day reset to 24 hours prior each time. In the end, the grenades blew up the Omega and he died along with it much earlier in the morning of Operation Downfall & the blood from it mingled with his as it happened. It reset the day but not the aliens, so it brings him back to the morning of the day before, just before he met the general & tried to blackmail him, so he still had his rank When the blood mingles with his, he has the power to reset the day, not the aliens, which is why he was hunted at the dam

[@kentonkruger8333]

But why did the Alpha die in the past?

[@AdeptCharon]

The distinction between the first and the second one is that he first gets it from an Alpha, which is not the actual source of the power, it's more like a walking reset point for the omega (an alpha is like a feeler that the omega stretches out into world probing and learning), and that's what Cage became for most of the movie. The second time he literally kills the omega and steals its power (which is probably a power like "sending the gathered information from the alphas back to the alphas"), so when the final reset happens (due to any alpha anywhere dying), the omega now gives up, since it is unable to make use of the alphas who are probably just running into the same deaths over and over, not seeing them coming and forever resetting.

[@CollideFan1]

I knew it had something to do with the him absorbing the Omega's blood. Makes perfect sense what you said

[@phoenixdzk]

@@AdeptCharon that's correct, the Alpha's more of a messenger that provides feedback to the Omega as it dies, and the Omega resets the day. So as he absorbed the Alpha's blood, the Omega probably kept mistaking his signature as that of an Alpha, which is why it kept resetting the day when he died, and why it tried to track him down. That's why a blood transfusion alters the signature. My theory was that with the Omega's blood mingling with his, it stands to reason his blood signature is now that of an Omega's. The real Omega could've reset the day one last time but only Cage travelled back alive since his blood signature was that of the Omega's, meaning the Omega in Paris the day before Operation Downfall did technically reset but was dead upon arrival, and took out the rest of the aliens phantom menace style

[@papabear1535]

But since it provided this new reset does that mean that he will have to now continually reset, unless of course he just gets a blood transfusion which would stop the process.

[@songrunner3027]

Best thing about the movie is the editing. Flows so well and cuts out any fluff - gets right to the point.

[@bloodymarvelous4790]

So very true. There isn't a moment where you go "Yeah yeah yeah. I've seen this already." It's perfectly paced.

[@phoenixdzk]

This movie's criminally underrated & I hear real good stuff about the Manga it's based on too, also RIP Bill Paxton

[@Amonabus]

All you need is kill is the only manga I've ever had an interest in reading and have read. It isn't very long and was ok. The movie takes a wildly different direction and is better for it imo. Highschool teen type dramas isn't my thing. Tho, I did appreciate the ending of the manga.

[@morgoth9671]

The manga is meh is only very conceptual. The story is almost non existant. the only thing that made it special is its concept

[@YonkoAgenda]

​@@morgoth9671how do you mean the story is non existent in the manga

[@morgoth9671]

@@YonkoAgenda it's really poor, short and doesn't really go anywhere. It's only in two volumes and by the time you grasp the concept it's over

[@dcresistance]

It's actually not based on the manga! It's based on the original light novel from 2004, and the manga was released in early 2014

[@BigGator5]

"Bloody hell, it's the Full Metal Bitch!" Fun Fact: The soldier that says this and is punched by Emily Blunt, is her real-life younger brother. Historical Allegory Fact: The film was released in the U.S. on June 6, 2014, the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day invasion during World War II. The film shares many similarities to the attack on Normandy Beach. Uniquely, it premiered in two sequential events, designed to mirror the D-Day landings within the exact timeline of the historic event. Lost In Adaptation Fact: In the movie, Rita (Emily Blunt) appreciates having coffee at the farmhouse. This is a nod to her character in the book, who is a coffee lover and had been introduced to coffee at an early age by her coffee addict father. In the world of the book, where coffee growing has virtually ceased because of the Mimic invasion and people drink artificial substitutes, Rita still has some supplies of exotic real coffee beans and her only personal possession is a coffee grinder.

[@greywolf7577]

Vkunia says that the character deserved being hit, but if a woman walked up to a guy in a mech suit and said "It's the Full Metal Dick" and he hit her with the mech suit's fist, I don't think people would think very highly of the man. So why do people react differently here?

[@Shadi092986]

I legit prefer this over his other sci-fi movie Oblivion. Tom Cruise doing cowardly yelping and running before becoming a full-on badass is extremely satisfying.

[@TheJerbol]

It's a significantly better movie than Oblivion

[@thecaptain3594]

Oblivion was not a very solid film.

[@3DJapan]

I prefer Oblivion actually. I just like that asthetic better and the time loop thing gets a little tiring.

[@philproffitt8363]

Minority Report and Vanilla Sky called and said: "What are we...chopped liver?"

[@Shadi092986]

@@philproffitt8363 I'm not disregarding his earlier (and still great) scifi movies. Edge and Oblivion just happened to be within close release dates.

[@stt5v2002]

Oh, the more times I see this movie and reactions to it, the more impressed I am with the relationship plot line. The idea that. or cage has spent hundreds or maybe even thousands of days with Rita but she is only spent one day with him is such an amazing structure. He cares deeply for her and is even falling in love with her. It’s completely understandable. From his perspective, they’ve been through so much together. She saved him countless times, and vice versa. He’s been through trauma with her and seen her go through trauma as well. They’ve shared the same goals and missions and values. but to Rita, he’s a guy she met earlier that day. Even when she understands what his experience has been, she cannot have had that experience herself. There’s something so beautiful yet tragic about the situation.

[@Trehek]

And the conversation with Rita in the car makes it even more tragic. In Verdun Rita had to see her brother die over and over again. And now the roles are reversed and her repeated deaths are the cause of the suffering, despair even! How to win AND save her life?

[@Alvan81]

Well written and agree totally! And the evidence is It's more like tens of thousands of repeats. In one version of Trailer, he even says (in the house) "For me, it's been an eternity". I hate that they cut that dialog.

[@BenjWarrant]

But she's had the power before, and she knows how many times he must have watched her die, and she knows that he's trying to stop her dying on the final mission, by keeping her back. She's not in love with him, but she kisses him because - well, you do on a first date, don't you?

[@Alvan81]

@@BenjWarrant Knowing is not the same as feeling, tho. And even more; she loved her brother _before_ the day even started looping.

[@BenjWarrant]

@@Alvan81 It's not an argument; that's my view.

[@TheGrumpyHobo]

Fun fact. This movie is based on a japanese manga called "all you need is kill". I'd highly recommend it to everyone, even though the story is vastly different from the movie. Its a very dark, psychological story that explores the mental battle of the main character as he becomes more and more divorced from reality with each repeat. He is stuck in the loop for so long, he forgets what his life was like before it. Ive never read anything else quite like it.

[@Tantalus010]

1. The other soldiers don't want Cage to know how to disable his safety because he is untrained, has been given a powerful weapon, and has been thrust into a "stressful situation." Statistically speaking, he was _much_ more likely to accidentally kill another soldier than he was a Mimic. Honestly, I'm amazed they gave him ammo at all - I wouldn't have. 2. My weird, favorite thing to point out: when Cage tries to roll under the truck the first time from pushups and he gets run over, he doesn't die right away. We know this because there was just enough time for Ferrell and the rest of the squad to react to him getting hit. 3. I get why Cage tells everyone to "take a hit for the team" if they're about to be killed by an Alpha, but it actually poses an interesting free will question. Let's say you were the last surviving member of J Squad on that suicide mission and there was an Alpha barreling down on you. If you let it kill you, the mission fails right then and there and Earth is doomed. If you kill it, the day resets, but you have no memory of it - still, J Squad gets another shot at killing the Omega, because Cage would still remember everything up until that point, same as how Rita still remembers all the times she reset the day after she lost the power. So here's the free will part: absent the memory of what you did before, are you doomed to make all the same choices again and thus inevitably fail again? Or, is it possible that you might randomly make a different decision than the one you made on your last run, and thus possibly eke out a victory (implying that free will is indeed a thing)? OR - third possibility - the Mimic's changing strategy _forces_ you to make slightly different decisions than before because circumstances have changed. 4. The ending - I got nothing. I don't understand how the Omega can be dead but a reset still gets triggered anyway. With the Alphas, it made sense: the Alphas were actually meant as trigger mechanisms and what they triggered was the Omega. If the Omega is dead, though, what's performing the reset? Cage? That would imply that all that's needed to do a reset is Omega blood, and if that's the case, then the Omega's...body is one giant tactical mistake. It's big, stationary, and defenseless, like a tree. Why not allow it to move around on its own and/or give it stabby tentacles like the Alphas? UNLESS...what if the Omega _isn't_ what's resetting the day and we just thought it was? What if the Omega is just a Mimic communications hub (relaying signals to ground forces), and something else has the power to reset the day? The Omega might have the same kind of reset-triggering blood as Alphas do because under ordinary circumstances, you'd want to reset when you lose a comm hub. That could mean the Mimic isn't dead and there might be a round 2 to this war.

[@wwoods66]

2. "... and [Cage] gets run over, he doesn't die right away. We know this" Or he _does_ die right away, but we follow that timeline a bit further before snapping back onto Cage's next one. There's precedent -- in the original _Groundhog Day,_ after one of the times Phil kills himself, we get a scene at the morgue, where Rita[!] and Larry identify Phil's dead body before we get the next rendition of "I Got You Babe". 4. Shrug. I figure the Alphas and the Omega trigger time resets _as_ they die, so Cage (and Rita) just lucked out.

[@kryptonianguest1903]

Regarding the Mimics' design flaws, they're evolved not engineered because an engineer would give the Omega the ability to reverse time at will and just use Alphas for relaying sensory information. Evolution makes things that are good enough, not optimised. Which is why the Mimics have a couple of glaring flaws.

[@fenderbender2096]

p. 1,2 great observation! p.3 current state of things in science is that world is non-deterministic, so no fatalism. If we follow this trope, it is possible that choices may be different each time. p.4 cmon this movie needed a happy ending after all the shit people went thru.

[@whereDoCarrotsComeFrom]

4. There's no day reset, omega physicaly travels back in tiem and relays information to alphas. I take that by cage getting mixed in with its blood the omega added him to the network again (as when he first got mixed with alpha blood). This assumes the omega didn't die instantly in the explosion, but managed to go back in time, where it succumbed to its injuries and thus the whole Mimic network went down. By going back in time and relaying the information, Tom Cruise knows what happened, but he doesnt drop like the mimics because he has his own conscience and not only the shared hive mind of the omega.

[@mmattson8947]

For pt. 3: My pet theory (after the second time I watched the movie) is that this actually happened. They should have had the element of surprise, but the Mimics seemed to be ready for them. (Their airship was hit well away from the Louvre.) Something probably went wrong the first time; either an Alpha got caught accidentally in a bomb explosion or was deliberately sacrificed by the Omega. By resetting the timeline to try to achieve a "perfect" victory, the Mimic Omega wound up changing things so Cage couldn't make the same decisions, creating the path where he ended up winning.

[@niallrussell7184]

Who doesn't love a montage of Tom Cruise dying for the whole length of a movie?! 🤣

[@BenjWarrant]

Somebody said 'People who love him will love the movie, people who hate him... will love the movie.'

[@davidmeir9348]

The movie is often called: "Groundhog Day with aliens" but that's not a bad description. It absolutely is and is excellent. Without a doubt one of the best Sci-Fi action movie ever. I personally would warmly recommend it to anyone, a must see.

[@patinho5589]

He’s not tearing up.. he’s super happy that she’s alive and he’s going to get to know her now with all their romance ahead. It’s pretty obvious.

[@Talancir]

37:57 What explanation do you need? He remembered. And he went to Rita as he had been so many times. He gets a chance for her to know him as much as he knows her.

[@eddielong8663]

The sheer amount of surprisingly well-timed humour throughout this film is the movie's way of communicating to its audience that it knows it's a silly concept and doesn't want to be taken in any way seriously. That's why the ambiguous ending is not only forgivable but actually very fitting. Just the way I interpret things anyway. One of my personal favourites.

[@kryptonianguest1903]

Regarding the ending, I think after Cage went back the final time, the Omega died from temporal feedback. Either there can only be one Omega on a planet, so Cage showing up as a second Omega caused the first one to explode, or its death rippled backwards through time due to him traveling back at the moment of its death.

[@Jeff-rn7bm]

When he died, the Omega blood got into him, meaning that he can now freely control time (without having to die). His memories were certainly intact, and he went back to "introduce" himself to the woman he loved.

[@moisesmartinezmorales5885]

Fun fact this movie is based on a Japanese Novel called "All you need is kill"

[@BaldingSince1999]

Fun fact. This loser is most likely the 100th person to leave this exact comment. Unoriginal copycat cringe.

[@Talancir]

Great manga.

[@Anime-Doom]

I remember being absolutely blindsided when this movie got announced, I discovered the manga it was based on about 4 chapters into it's run and I was immediately hooked. I adored that story and followed it religiously, hoping that someday it would get an anime adaptation, never expected it to skip that step and go straight to live action. There are certain aspects of the original that I prefer but all-in-all this was an incredible adaptation and a personal favourite movie of mine.

[@thecaptain3594]

I wasn't a huge fan of the manga. I listened to the audiobook on the way home from a road trip and it didn't grab me. This movie is one of the extremely rare instances where the movie actually makes a better version of the original story, in my opinion.

[@platinumphazer]

The story is good but the art is really what made it, the audio book approach may not of been ideal.

[@jozx713]

This is one of the best Sci Fi movies ever made! Emely Blunt is awesome and of course Tom... this desperately needs a sequel!!

[@Eryomis]

As a frenchman i can confirm we all have helicopters in our backyards. If we don't have backyard, we put them in the fridge, no big deal.

[@erickknutz5599]

Always fun to ask a creator, if they can pinpoint when exactly their opinion of Cruise as an actor changed... because so many of them state they are NOT a fan of Tom on the first couple of reactions, but very very quickly their tune changes and he is like in their top 5 actors of all time. Just setting aside anything from his personal life, he is both an amazing actor and very selective about the movie roles he chooses. Perfect combo to have if you want an extremely successful career.

[@BubblyRainbows]

I am not a fan of Tom Cruise as a person and probably never will be. But whatever I think of the man, I have to admit that he picks fantastic roles. There are so many of his movies that I really like. I know people who haven't watched a Tom Cruise movie since before I was even born because they don't like him and refuse to support his work, but after having seen so many of his movies that I enjoyed, I can't skip them just because Tom Cruise. They might be great.

[@DavetheGrue]

@@BubblyRainbows You are right to separate the art from the artist. It's easy to become a jerk when you're rich and famous; you don't socialize much with normal people and there might be no one in your life who will say no to you. I'm sure there are a great many filmmakers, actors, musicians, writers, etc. who are unpleasant people. To bypass them all you'd essentially have to opt out of our culture.

[@highlander31527]

@@DavetheGrue You haven't made it far enough past the public stories yet. Cruise is nutty in his beliefs, but he is a nice guy, and dedicated to film making. People with bad stories about working with him share a lot in common. Namely, if you are phoning your acting in on set, Tom can tell, and he will relentlessly attack you for it until you shape up. If you give it your best, he will respect and support you. The covid rant Tom made on the set of Top Gun Maverick was massively misunderstood. He wasn't worried about masks or covid. Tom specifically said in the rant that if people kept treating the mask wearing lightly, that the set would get shut down, and delay production, hurting everyone involved from top to bottom of the actors in the movie. Tom was also responsible for the great shape many of the actors were in, and because of him, at minimum, four of the actors got their pilot's licenses, with Tom himself as a partial instructor. Even in Edge of Tomorrow, Tom pushed Emily hard, yet Emily trusted Tom enough to let him know that she was three months pregnant and had not brought it up out of fear of being replaced. Tom kept her secret, and made sure that she was not in any stunts or scenes that could hurt her baby. After the movie was done, and everything put together, Emily herself talked about how hard he was on her, yet she loved it and he was a good friend.

[@DavetheGrue]

@@highlander31527 I appreciate your passion and all, but you are responding to something I never said. I said you have to separate the art from the artist. It was a general statement, regardless of whatever anyone thinks about Cruise. I don't know him personally.

[@kevinr5544]

The original title for this movie was "Live, Die, Repeat." Also they didn't want to help Cage because they were told that he was a deserter, so most people wont help someone that has a proven recorder of not doing what they should.

[@oliverconway6960]

I know the biggest thing about this film is that it was based on a Japanese light novel, and I get that, but the thing that I appreciated the most is that it served to commemorate the D-Day landings in World War 2. It was even released on their 70th anniversary (a week earlier in the UK). Also, can we appreciate that this film has now become a way of describing Tom Cruise's entire acting career? For his first 15 years, outside of the original Top Gun and Days of Thunder, he wasn't that much of an action star. His dedication to his work has increased by the year since the first Mission Impossible movie in 1996, just like his character here became better skilled with each loop, to the point that he has done his own insane stunts for many years now.

[@5ilver42]

I think that the adaptation of taking a novel written as taking place in Japan, and transplanting that to Britain, a different island nation across the globe, was also a really smart thing to do as well. It's kind of an obvious choice in hindsight really, but it the sort of thing I can imagine another creative lead doing a really poor job at, or doing something else entirely. And as you said, this adaptation serves to commemorate the D-day landings with this choice too.

[@gurugulab1414]

The teary eyes and grin are an indication that how much fun he's gonna have telling Rita Vrataski all the adventures and everything they have been in together and the moment when he will finally reveal her middle name.

[@SuperFunkyMonkey19]

Best way to describe this movie... Starship Troopers meets Groundhogs Day. One of my favorite movies by the way.

[@todd8398]

I always find it hilarious when the one soldier straps a Claymore to his chest with the iconic words facing out: "FRONT TOWARD ENEMY" (To be clear: if that thing went off, the soldier would be dead no matter what)

[@totomomo18]

Great movie. Other great time travel movies are The Butterfly Effect and Frequency. Also another great Tom Cruise movie which is not reacted at all is the first Jack Reacher movie.

[@mikedawg45]

Ending explanation (from what I can gather): The Mimics are 4 dimensional beings that exist across a 24hr period, so killing the Omega in the present killed it in the past.

[@kevincmejia]

Fun FACT: this is one of the few good hollywood MANGA adaptations, this one was adapted from: All You Need Is Kill in case you want to read it

[@jorgeeduardopereztasso6134]

If "fell in love with a movie" was an actual definition.... this movie is my true love

[@rayvanhorn1534]

What a terrific sci-fi film, one of the best using a time repeating window. Someone suggested watching "Oblivion" & I wholeheartedly second that!! A really unique sci-fi film that I think you'd enjoy. Great reaction, look forward to more.

[@surlycanadian]

Love this one. He gets a nights sleep every time. He dies, wakes up, confronted by sarge, meets J squad, goes about his day training with Rita, gets a nights sleep, they launch attack next morning, he dies. Repeat.

[@paulmartin2348]

Here is the thing about snacks during the reaction. We enjoy watching you check out our favorite movies. It's a great time, pretty much why we are all here. Problem is if you don't have snacks then we feel self conscious about eating snacks when we can't really offer to share with you. So if WE ALL are having snacks it's a GREAT TIME while watching a great movie. Make sense? 😁

[@PlumbPitiful]

There is another reaction channel I like called Popcorn in Bed where, as the title suggests, the reactor eats popcorn while reacting to the movie. At least she used to! Unfortunately Cassie received complaints from viewers that her crunching was annoying and distracting so she doesn't really do it anymore. 🍿 Fun Fact: Recently she and her sister Carly (who sometimes reacts with her) were invited to attend the premier of the new Mission Impossible and had their picture taken with Tom Cruise! They were even featured on Access Hollywood! (Sorry about plugging another channel Vicky 🥴 You're still the best😃👍 Love ya!)

[@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710]

@@PlumbPitiful Hello, if I need a snack, I have snack. Vicky if you need a snack have a snack. If your audience wants quiet snacks have some ice cream. I would.

[@culthaven5871]

Yeah exactly, it'd be kinda lame to find it bothering when people have snacks while watching a movie. I just don't get people who won't stop bickering about the most minor things. Yet so good of Vkunia to ask her audience.

[@silversailer]

Love this movie. And Bill Paxton is great in it!! RIP

[@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710]

" What the Hell were you thinking? " - Master Sargeant Farell

[@beelzhelheim2750]

Okay here is my explanation, Omega = controls time Alpha = commander Every time an alpha dies omega resets time by 1 day. Tom cruise gets alpha's blood. Therefore Tom is considered commander by omega resulting in the resets everytime he dies. Tom cruise gets blood transfusion so, Tom cruise is not an alpha anymore. And at the end he gets the blood of Omega that has the ability to control time. Not the alpha. So now, Tom cruise= control time, not the actual omega doing it for him. So my theory is, subconsciously he wanted to avoid the war and not see anyone dead especially Emily blunt, changing time further more now that he has that power

[@michaeljacyna1973]

To me the ending means Cage has newly retained the power. So...I like to imagine Cage and Rita getting together after this, having a bunch of kids, growing old, and when Cage is on his deathbed surrounded by his great grandchildren: "I love all of yo--" SNAP CUT He's back on the helicopter 😂 "Hmmm wonder is Nance from J Squad is single...."

[@spdcrzy]

Well, if he has the power to reset the day, can he choose not to?

[@michaeljacyna1973]

@@spdcrzy I would say its not presented as a choice in the movie, and is even presented as a curse in the early stages.

[@spdcrzy]

@@michaeljacyna1973 I completely agree. But from a biological standpoint, he IS the omega now. And the Omega resets the day when AN Alpha dies, but it seems to be something that the Omega can choose to do and use as an offensive weapon. There are no Alphas left, so is there a reason to reset the day anymore? Yes, maybe it's part of their biology, but I wonder if that instinct is something that the Mimics controlled - and maybe he has, too.

[@michaeljacyna1973]

@@spdcrzy Interesting point. But I would think as a human unintentionally inheriting the ability, it would likely be a surprise, much like the first time was a surprise. And if such a choice is true, would take some practice to figure it out. I think he at least gets to live two seperate lifetimes, minimum LOL

[@SG-js2qn]

Tom Cruise has four solid scifi films to his credit, and this is one of them. Edge of Tomorrow, Oblivion, Minority Report, and War of the Worlds. He has a fifth scifi movie, but it's not action. It's more of an art film. Not bad, but not what you'd think for Tom Cruise. It's Vanilla Sky. And if you want to see him joke about his Mission Impossible role, try Knight and Day.

[@henriklarsen8193]

The Omega realized invading would lead to its death, so it reset far enough back to abort the entire thing with minimal casualties to its forces, and the energy surge was probably from it getting the heck out of dodge by space travel or some such thing.

[@Norp-i7m]

That's a cool theory.

[@NewsofPE]

nice headcannon, fortunately not what happens, fortunate for humanity that is

[@henriklarsen8193]

@@NewsofPE Why not? Based on what?

[@NewsofPE]

@@henriklarsen8193 fortunate because then what stops it from coming back

[@henriklarsen8193]

@@NewsofPE That, good sir, is what we in the biz call a "sequel".

[@crispy_338]

The ending doesnt really make sense but the rest of the movie is so so good. Really like this one

[@ypey1]

Real

[@DaveH82]

Which part didn't make sense?

[@ypey1]

@@DaveH82 just like she said in the video. He wins the war by destroying the thingy, gets covered by the time accid again. Gets thrown back in time, not 1 day but even more days where the war should be in full swing again, but no. All of a suden the war is over in the past as well?! It would make sense that the war will be over in the future where he dies while destroying the thingy, not in the past where all this still has to take place... Its a plot hole and i understand why they did it. They lost on a technicality, but it was needed to get a nice roundup to the plot arc consistent with the upbeat style of the movie.... great action flick, good humor

[@Lukasgate]

Not really hard to understand the ending. If the omega controls time then you'd have to assume the omega exists outside the realm of time. You'd also have to assume each time an alpha dies the omega resetting the day is more of a "bodily" impulse reaction. If alphas are the "nervous system" of the omega then the omega dying would also impulse reset the day. So Cruise blows up omega, gets covered in its blood, omega dies and resets day, Cruise is back a few hours before he met the General which is a few hours before the original reset point throughout the movie, since omega exists outside of realm of time his injuries persist and it dies, the day is reset with omega and all other mimicks dead as mimicks are part of the omega. Not hard to understand

[@bloodymarvelous4790]

@@Lukasgate I have a different take on it. When Cage killed the Alpha, he became an Alpha. When Cage dies, the Omega resets the day. By that logic, when Cage killed the Omega, he became the Omega. He now has the power to reset time. Cage being the Omega, means there is no other Omega, so when he resets time, the Omega ceases to exist from the moment he reset to, creating the electromagnetic pulse that kills all the Mimics. If the Omega had reset time when it died, they'd have to start all over again.

[@wirebrushproductions1001]

"Why didn't they give him pants?" Because he's got to be free. Didn't you hear him? And they don't want him to know how to release his safety because they don't trust him not to hurt them through sheer incompetence. They don't know him, they've been told he's a deserter - so they aren't about to trust him with a working weapon.

[@donaldduncan7095]

Love this movie, I call it Groundhog Day on steroids.😉 Notice how both love interest in both movies were named "Rita", I think they did this as a way to pay tribute and say thanks for the Idea. The happiest ending, Tom Cruise's next line to Rita......"Can I buy you a cup of coffee and tell you how we saved the world".

[@MegaroadProducciones]

Don't even try Vicky, that ending is just a brutal convenience of the script. And in fact, the script itself has many plot holes when it comes to explaining the power of the aliens. That's what usually happens when you put time travel elements in a movie and you don't know how to handle them. I don't want to say much, other than it's another time travel movie, and it shares one of the same actors, Noah Taylor. It's a movie you need to see if you need to see it (if you haven't already seen it privately). Predestination. You really need to do a reaction to this great movie.

[@rasg3000]

The way i see the ending is that the Omega is actually a creature out of time, basically It exists at all times at the same time, thats what when It died in the "future" It also died in the past. That could explain how they retain memories from the posible futures too

[@zaratustra27]

My personal theory is that the mimics' blood actually travels back in time and goes back to its host but when the blood is 'transferred' it goes back to the last host, i.e. the person who killed the mimic and got impregnated. Since the human can't control the time travel power, he/she goes back to his/her last time sleeping and the respective mimic just gets drained of blood and dies at the same time. That explains all the times Cage got back to the morning of the invasion but when he finally killed the Omega and the blood tried to go back to the last time he was asleep, it found that slot used by the Alpha's blood, and it goes back another slot to the helicopter. The blood was transferred, the Omega was drained, and it died with all the hive

[@anthonybean931]

When the Omega was killed and Cage died with the Omega blood on him, the day was reset (because Cage died) to the beginning of the chain of events that started the path of the Omega's destruction. He had killed the Omega earlier in the morning and the control of the Omega over time was lost since it was dead and there were no Alphas alive to trigger the reset (since they all died when the Omega was killed). That's why he didn't reset to the FOB day when he was introduced to J squad. Because he never went into combat with J squad where he would die with the Alpha, he reset to the helicopter flight where his initial involvement began. It was the only time reference left to reset to.

[@noah_ncl0223]

This movie is so insane. I don’t know if a sequel is making with the same actors, but I hope that do ❤😊

[@moisesmartinezmorales5885]

Doubt it

[@tareav]

they are planning a sequel since 2015, but Emily Blunt said it will cost a lot of money.

[@TomH2681]

I hope not. Sequels too often ruin the original.

[@moisesmartinezmorales5885]

@@TomH2681 i think the problem would be that they don't have something to guide them like in the first movie (they based it of a novel called "all you need is kill") leading to a possible bad script

[@JayM409]

There are a million sequels.

[@markcooper4876]

They didn't want Private Cage to know where the safety was, because they didn't trust him to not accidentally or intentionally shoot his own people.

[@Gammaskalle]

When she shoots him. For her it does not start over. She lives on in a parallel universe where he perma dies. Powerful gift to create so many universes.

[@AngeloBarovierSD]

RE: Da Choppa: Pretty sure they were at a generational farmhouse and the chopper was the crop dusting vehicle. So, old house, old cars, new chopper. Pretty common to have a mishmash of vintage and modernity in hereditary farms.

[@RealNazrax]

Boss Level is another fun time loop movie, and they really go all in on the video-gaminess of the loops. Source Code - despite the terrible name - is another good take on the genre.

[@kryptonianguest1903]

I remember watching a time loop movie where a guy is being sent back in time to stop a train with a nuke on it from reaching the city the time machine is in. Every loop in the past uses up time in the present and if the nuke goes off in the city, the time machine will be destroyed. So he only has a limited number of loops to get it right.

[@kirkanos771]

@@kryptonianguest1903 Better than this, Source Code is not only a good time loop movie, it's also an explanation how we can be transferrd to another life when we die. It's fringe esoterist sci-fi but damn it's inspiring. If you can experience another life, you can live that other life. Consciousness is boundless.

[@blakewalker84120]

22:00 "His body isn't resting. He needs to eat and drink and sleep." His body is different every time. I mean, he gets crushed, shot, blown up, but then he wakes up with none of those injuries. In fact, when he wakes up, he was JUST SLEEPING. So each day his new body is fed and rested and ready to go. Soldiers get to eat, so he probably has meals during that day like all the other soldiers. And since his body only has to last one day, or less, he's physically fine each day with his new, well-rested body. The only thing in doubt is if his mind (not brain, but the mind itself) gets fatigued. Since he has all his memories and experiences carried to his new body each day, that means his mind is processing all of this constantly without resting or sleeping in between. That might be a problem. Until we can test mental fatigue in time-loops in laboratory conditions, we may never know.

[@anothervagabond]

"Why don't they want him to know where the safety is?" Because it's obvious to them that he has no idea what he's doing, so if he can use his weapon he's much more likely to kill them than he is the enemy. They don't want to get shot in the back by a terrified newbie who doesn't even know how to arm his weapon.

[@batbrick3949]

The book explains it a little differently (SPOILERS AHEAD) When an Alpha (or a human infused with Alpha blood) dies, it doesn’t exactly reset the day. It sends all of their memories of that day back in time to themselves, the day before. They live through it again, then send the next memories back. It repeats until the war is done. So, in the timeline, Cage actually defeated the Omega only once, using the memories of having played through it hundreds of times. Once the Omega was defeated, the repeat loop ended.

[@lurkerrekrul]

Nobody wanted to tell him where the safety was because they didn't trust him. He'd never been in combat and wasn't trained to use the mech suit, so they assumed that he was a screwup who would probably shoot them by accident if they told him how to activate his weapons. When you think about it, Cage is like a gamer who keeps hitting the quickload key until he learns the patterns.

[@blakewalker84120]

20:20 "So he's made a game plan." Yes. "And he's training her because that's the most efficient way?" No. She can't remember any of this. Only he can. So he's discussing it with her because she's the expert. Then when they really are on the beach, only he remembers the conversations so he has to tell her everything to do.

[@Octavian7771]

The obvious way to defeat the Omega, kills a blue, then uses the blue blood to give Angel the power. From there, Tom and Angel recruit others to be given the power until they have an army of time shifters.

[@noodle_fc]

I think there is more than one sensible theory about the ending. We're told the rules that arise and the Omega's role when Rita and Cage have Alpha blood. Nobody knows the rules for when Cage gets Omega blood, except that the Omega remains dead, it triggers an energy surge in the past, and the reset point is earlier. People can come up with a variety of explanations to fit those constraints. We needed to know the Alpha-blood rules because those mechanics drive the narrative, but the Omega-blood rules can remain a mystery without affecting the story.

[@andrewichigo]

By quote from the band the reason why Tool have that name is because they want you to use them as a tool to understand something about yourself. So don't worry if you don't vibe with a song here and there, so long as you pay attention to the lyrics and try to understand the message

[@colaphoenix6849]

He wouldn’t need food or a rest. Every reset he has completely healed muscles and and abd is fully nourished as much as he are the day before the reset

[@nrgmanifest]

11:24 VKunia typing on an old typewriter lol

[@treystone9464]

I guess he got the Omega's blood and that reset the day back to the first reset point, the first battle.

[@fdtori]

I think the helicopter was a crop duster model, this is a house/farm... so maybe not a common sight but it his possible and not so far-fetched.

[@rgodase]

This was the best love story. Science fiction was just for premise.

[@dhavaram8064]

The ending...Cage killed the Omega, and it was the OMEGA'S blood that engulfed him, so he gained the ability to reset the time. So he started even further back than the previous resets, but the Omega was dead, and that DIDN'T reset. Since the Omega was dead, and its really all one organism, that means ALL the Mimics were dead.

[@s1p0]

37:43 Explanation: ♫ I need to know now, know now. Can you love me again? ♫ (Tom Cruise gained ability from Ω to go back several days. Even in an alien army, decision-making are shared in levels).

[@joshuawells835]

This is my favorite time loop movie. It's also a Tom Cruise film in which Tom Cruise tries to be less of his usual characters. Fun Fact-Operation: Downfall was the name for the proposed invasion of the Japanese Home Islands in WWII. It was an unused plan because Japan surrendered after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

[@colbyboucher6391]

I'll never get over how Hollywood saw a tree-sized sword in the manga and went "yeah, let's just do it anyways"

[@shanz7758]

Fun fact, from what I heard, the actor playing the man that Emily Blunt punches at the beginning of the film (At 8 : 00) would actually be her real life brother! I guess brotherly bickering takes a whole new level with actors :p

[@THEvagabond29]

Girl in the original comic, Rita fights Cage for the ability b/c she doesnt think he has the chops. He kills her and wears her colors in battle from that point on.

[@Ergand]

I know it's not how the Mimic reset works, but here's a sequel idea I had. Imagine many years later a second invasion of Mimics happens, but far stronger and more brutal. Nothing can be done to stop them, and eventually Tom Cruise's character is killed. He wakes up back on this helicopter and has to figure out a way to get the planet ready to beat the invasion.

[@tooluser]

You totally didn't understand that movie. He remembered everything.

[@vex2788]

aww vkunia is so innocent, thinking that aliens have to have been wronged by humanity to want to attack us. I mean they could just be conquerors of the galaxy, bloodthirsty or fight for more land.

[@Nexidal]

Pressing people into military service that'll likely kill them is as old as human civilization, and it's still going strong with no end in sight. Great movie, the light novel was pretty good and as far as films from that sphere go, this is probably my favorite.

[@arraymac227]

'How would they not see this on the radars?' Time travel is the mimic's radar...

[@cameronkiley6690]

It’s implied that cage tells Rita they win and fills her in on how it happen. The omega has the ability to reset time by another day where the alpha can only reset so far back. Cage blows up the omega which at that point the omegas blood interacts with cage giving cage the power that the omega has to reset time even further back. since the omega is now dead, time plays out as normally however technically cage still has the power to reset time. There’s a whole lore with much more context that their are multiple omegas throughout the universe and how the aliens got to earth were from asteroids or meteors entering our orbit. There was a possibility for a sequel at one point but it never got green lit for the script

[@michaeljacyna1973]

Callbacks to Groundhog Day: Female lead is "Rita." Another female supporting character "Nance" (aka Nancy Taylor)

[@sujithkumar8033]

Tom Cruise is now the Omega. He has reset the day

[@RageMojo]

He laughed at the end because he was going to have to explain it all to her yet again.

[@notsureyou]

VKunia: "Aliens" Me: "Did you just assume their planet of origin???"

[@Niks.Camera]

It’s basic. The omega resets on automatic based on connection with its alphas. In the last seconds Cage reconnected and caused a reset with one last breath from the dying omega.

[@chiefcrash1]

"Wouldn't he need headphones? How does he sleep?" -- learning to sleep with the small slivers of time you can't do anything else with is an important skill everyone learns in the military.... It's actually almost impossible to keep them awake during a road trip if they're not driving. 2 minutes in, they're out like a light...

[@Hiraghm]

They don't want him to take the safety off because they know he's incompetent and they don't want him to accidently shoot _them_ . If a guy asks you where the safety is on his gun... he hasn't been trained to use it.

[@Mr.Ekshin]

"He needs to eat, he needs to sleep" - Ummm... no he doesn't. Each time he wakes up, it's a reset on the same day. He has slept and doesn't really need to eat. Only his mind retains the past events, but his body doesn't. Each time he wakes up, his wounds are gone, and he's not getting more tired or hungry.

[@mariovaudry6272]

Quick easy explain for ending . When Cage had the ALPHA power he was considered like and ALPHA to the OMEGA , the OMEGA reset the day as soon an ALPHA dies , But after all that .The Omega reset time like he want , When cage got the Omega blood on him , He was the only one with the power to reset so he did unconsciously to were he was safe and sound , but the omega is still dead because its Cage who did the reset , not the omega . ( Sorry for my bad english , hope it made sense)

[@seand9844]

The thing about the safety is so he won't shoot them or anyone else because they think he might escape or purposely hurt them to get out of it. Something like that, they don't trust him

[@pustuleofyelough]

How are you explained it is kind of how I see it, the Omega was trying one last ditch attempt to reset the day for itself and move positions, however the bomb went off first so all that energized blood was in the water and latched onto the last living thing there, which just so happen to be Tom Cruise

[@CharlesVanNoland]

I just realized that Tom Cruise and the Noah Taylor (Dr. Carter, the science guy who is Emily Blunt's brainy sidekick) were both in Vanilla Sky. That was a trippy movie.

[@MikkosFree]

My understanding was that the Omega wasn't the big boss. I was just another level. While the death of an Alpha triggers a day reset, the death of an Omega triggers a longer reset, which is why Tom woke up when he was just arriving at London. There is a bigger boss out there than the Omega.

[@Hiraghm]

Btw, this is not a new controversy; in WWII America would not allow our troops to be under direct British military command. We had seen how they had used Canadian and Australian troops as cannon fodder, and we were not going to go along with that.

[@xaemosxone]

He got the OMEGA'S BLOOD not an ALPHA. So he had the power over time fully. So he turned it back before he was sent to the front. He used the power of the OMEGA to destroy it before the battle happened.So once the OMEGA was gone all the lessor aliens lost all will and power.

[@ВладимирЯрошенко-м1т]

The manga "all of you need is kill" served as the basis for the script. The ending is more understandable there.

[@TeamBevontation]

While yes, the inside of a helicopter is loud. If you’ve had enough exposure to them, and/or are tired enough sleeping in a heli is pretty easy. Source: they’re my daily ride to work in the summer.

[@frankman90210]

they killed the omega before the invasion, so he got put back to a day earlier, but since the omega died, the day was different and he didn't need to blackmail the general (probably didn't even get to speak to him because general was busy with the news that the invasion was not necessary anymore), so he kept his stripes.

[@sumonjamal1653]

The theory is that when Cage killed the blue Alpha mimic, he got covered in its blood and as a result, he got the Alpha's connection to the Omega's power and kept restarting the day without the Omega being aware... Only Cage can remember every restart. However, the Omega sensed after repeated 'restarts' that its power was compromised and dispatched the false vision to draw him out. Rita was killed the same way at Verdun and got covered in Alpha blood and kept restarting the day... only Dr. Carter would believe her story. She got the false vision as well to draw her out, but she was able to win in the battle in Verdun... However, her injury and blood transfusion ended her power to restart the day and she was unable to locate the Omega in her vision. With time carrying on... Rita knew that she would get only one chance to fight at the beach. She discovered that Dr. Carter had been 'sidelined' by military brass when he brought his discoveries forward... Rita meeting Cage at the beach gave her purpose because she knew that someone else w/ the 'restart' power could give her another chance to defeat the invasion and locate the Omega. Of course, Cage and Rita use Dr. Carter's transponder device to locate the Omega in Paris... but Cage loses the power after he is given blood. In the end, Cage detonates the explosives that kills the Omega, but is mortally wounded... The Omega is killed and it controls the entire mimic horde through its Alphas, so the explosion that kills the Omega sends a surge that incapacitates the mimics. But then, Cage absorbs the dead Omega's blood and seizes its power to restart the day... essentially becoming the Omega. Once the day is restarted by Cage one final time, this one takes him earlier than the previous 'restart' point... And since he had killed the Omega and absorbed its power, the final 'restart' results in the Omega 'arriving' dead in the past which is detected by the energy surge from its location in Paris and incapacitates the mimic horde as well... and only Cage can recall all the events of his restarts (Rita can only remember her own restarts). That's my theory anyways.

[@roystoyscomics1361]

It's not about hatred or anger towards humanity. It's that they want our resources and they are willing to go through us to get them. Then they can have the planet for themselves.

[@jorgesoross127]

The reason they don't tell him where the safety is is because they believe he's a deserter and if he's a deserter he might try to kill them to escape combat.

[@BrownCoatFan]

Everything about his body is resetting every day so he's not going forever without eating, drinking or sleeping. He's only keeping the memories.

[@AdrianChazz]

I like to think that the Omega conciousness stretches through time, so no matter when you kiIl them, they die infinitely... The blue blood allowed Tommy boy to travel back, but they were already ded.

[@BenjWarrant]

The problem with the ending is this. The time line goes like this: *Day 1* Cruise arrives in London, has the talk with the general, is tased, and wakes up on the FOB and meets Sgt Farrell and J Squad; *Day 2* they storm the beaches and Cruise eventually dies and time resets to Day 1 when he *woke up at the FOB* after being tased. On the final Day 1, Cruise and Blunt meet for the first time (again) and eventually travel to London, talk the general into giving them the device (which they have done before, but she had to shoot him) and this time he sees the Omega under the Louvre but they're both injured so he gets a blood transfusion and loses his ability to reset time. During that same night - i.e. *the night of Day 1* - they steal the drop ship with J Squad and during the night Cruise destroys the Omega and dies, but he resets one final time but this time (because of the Omega's blood?) he resets to the *beginning of Day 1* - but then immediately after landing in Trafalgar Square he watches a news broadcast in which the general says that they have already detected a blast "just before sunrise". And here's the question : _In the final timeline, how did the destruction of the Omega take place on _*_Day -1?_*