All You Need Is Kill

All You Need Is Kill was "soon to be a major motion picture starring Tom Cruise," when I read it.  Which is too bad, because the book, by Hiroshi Sakurazaka is a lovely rendition of the old Bill Murray movie Groundhog Day on the battlefield against an alien invader. On the one hand, it's a video game of a story, but on the other hand it's got a lot of subtlety with great storytelling and nicely-drawn characters. I can't imagine that a Tom Cruise rendition, now released as Edge of Tomorrow, directed by Doug Liman (the Bourne movies, and Mr & Mrs Smith), will be anything like the book, save in the broadest of strokes.  Look for a future review of the screen version.