I enjoyed it. I'm surprised a lot of people didn't get the living-the-video-game-reset-button thing; I've heard it more often referred to as "Groundhog Day with guns." Well, OK then.
Liked the little comic relief moments which contrasted with the generally serious tone of the movie, such as the first bus scene (if you've seen it, you know what I mean). Bill Paxton did a nice job in his role, as he did in "Agents of SHIELD"; too bad it looks like his character in the latter has finished his arc.
One scene I liked was the one midmovie where, after a certain number of resets in a particular scenario, Cruise's character came to the realization that what they were trying to do was just impossible no matter how much they tried to use the reset to guide their choreography, so they had to completely rethink how they were going about it. That, too, is reminiscent of how some endgames work in games: the Kobayashi Maru setup isn't just a Star Trek idea.
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Liked the little comic relief moments which contrasted with the generally serious tone of the movie, such as the first bus scene (if you've seen it, you know what I mean). Bill Paxton did a nice job in his role, as he did in "Agents of SHIELD"; too bad it looks like his character in the latter has finished his arc.
One scene I liked was the one midmovie where, after a certain number of resets in a particular scenario, Cruise's character came to the realization that what they were trying to do was just impossible no matter how much they tried to use the reset to guide their choreography, so they had to completely rethink how they were going about it. That, too, is reminiscent of how some endgames work in games: the Kobayashi Maru setup isn't just a Star Trek idea.