A high ranking army officer flees from an order and because he is a deserter, is treated as a low level soldier. The war that is being fought is against aliens and the army is using mechanical suits to fight them. The demoted soldier accidentally kills a large alien before dying and wakes up to repeat the same day again. He meets a renowned female soldier who has been through this process before. Together they must stop the entire alien invasion.
Groundhog Day in science fiction video game format. Duration and pacing are standard for the average action film. Fast pace and an hour 45 duration. The plot was interesting and full of action, but extremely predictable. I found the characters to be stereotypical and did not care about what happened to them. Writing and dialogue was pretty standard for the genre. There was lots of camera movement. It's a spoiler, but most of the final conflict scene was just underexposed shots with lots of movement and editing cuts. There were some very good battle scenes though, with visible monsters and heroes striving to win the day. The audio seemed fine, with audible dialogue, tense musical soundtrack and realistic sound effects. 178 million dollar budget will buy some high quality sets, costumes and special effects. The armors looked good, but would have been done with physical effects in the '80s. I don't think that was the case here. The aliens were animated well, but extremely uncreative. How much thought goes into a glowing ball of tentacles? I rate this adequate because I liked the reset premise and there were lots of good action scenes.
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