Speaking with Collider (opens in new tab) before Liman’s involvement was announced, producer Simon Kinberg stated: “We have a director in and I don’t know if I’m allowed to say who it is yet because his deal isn’t done, but it’s somebody we’re excited about, and somebody I adore, and hopefully we can make an announcement soon about that. But we’ve been spending a lot of time together—Channing, [Reid Carolin, Tatum’s producing partner], [screenwriter Joshua Zetumer], the director, and myself—just working on the script, and we hope to start shooting next spring.”

The key soundbite there is that Gambit will be “shooting next Spring”, meaning there’s no way it will be able to make its October 2016 release date. When it does eventually reach cinemas, Kinberg promises that the film “will have its own flavour and tone to it, and will be more of like a heist movie and a sexy thriller in a way.” Starring Tatum and Léa Seydoux, Gambit will likely be hitting cinemas in 2017.

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Tom Cruise is Lt. Col. Bill Cage, a wimpy PR strategist content to sit out the fight when US troops pour into England to help stem the alien invasion that’s sweeping through Europe. Then he pisses off the wrong people and finds himself locked into a heavily weaponised exosuit and cast into the frontline of a beach invasion. Mere minutes into battle, he splats off his mortal coil.

Short movie? Well, here’s the hook: Cage jolts awake at the exact spot he inhabited 24 hours before, and again finds himself thrust into action. He dies, resets, dies, resets (each death ghastlier than the last), and Edge Of Tomorrow (game)plays out with this reluctant soldier having to find his way off the Saving Private Ryan (opens in new tab)-esque beach before graduating to the next level: rescuing the world.

The movie offers a clever spin on Cruise’s frequent journey as a leading man: instead of going from cocksure git to compassionate hero via a crisis, he here travels from cowardly git to compassionate hero via the mother (or should that be Alien Queen?) of all crises.

The time-loop works. Far from being the multiplex equivalent of a trek to the laundry, the spin-cycle lends a fresh tilt to the time-worn Us vs. Them genre, with Liman and Cruise serving humour and invention to ensure each rewind veers into territory as unexpected as it is familiar. Not that it’s all about the boys. Aiding Cruise on his seemingly impossible mission is a pumped-up Emily Blunt as supersoldier Rita Vrataski aka Full Metal Bitch. Together they tackle wave after wave of tentacular-tastic E.T.s, all the while trying to balance a curiously one-sided relationship (he knows her well, she’s just met him).

The breakneck pace leaves little room for meaningful character development, and the climax, set in a flooded Paris, fails to match the handheld ballistics of the earlier scenes. But there’s imagination, spectacle and thrills to spare. There’s a freshness here too that comes not only from the structure, but from Edge Of Tomorrow being a shiny new property in this cyclical age of sequels, prequels and spin-offs.

Verdict:

Liman brings the anarchic fizz of Looney Tunes to a big-budget studio film, while having the balls to cast Cruise as a coward. One to watch again and again and again…

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