Look! It's another sci-fi movie starring Tom Cruise:

I don't wish Tom Cruise would retire. I just wish Tom Cruise would do something different, is all. This INTENSE LEADING MAN schtick is beyond tired. We're now in the third decade of Tom Cruise willing himself into an action hero mode, and everything about his acting style has become so aggressive that it's off-putting. Sometimes a director can use Cruise to his best ability—Brad Bird's Mission: Impossible movie was incredibly entertaining because it didn't force Cruise to even try anything outside his comfort zone—but for the most part, his movies are highly generic. He's got such an iron-fisted control over every aspect of the movie-making process at this point that Cruise overrides most directors and forces them to put his will up on the screen. Cruise movies are always about so-called perfect men, doing things perfectly. Who, outside of Ayn Rand, thinks that's an entertaining film? And how much more money does Tom Cruise need?

I'd love to see Cruise, at age 51, try something new. Something smaller. Something about a perfect man who finally failed. Something where he plays a small-town loser who thinks he's the greatest man alive. Something where he has to come to term with his flaws, in a small supporting role. Something where he doesn't have to pretend to care about wooing a love interest. Why does he have to keep doing the same thing over and over? How does he get himself out of bed to make the same movie every morning? In that respect, this trailer for Edge of Tomorrow maybe represents Tom Cruise's life better than most roles: He's stuck in a time loop of his own devising, acting out blurry action scenes over and over again for some unknown purpose.