Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

Most people think so. 78% of audiences gave it a thumbs up based on 14,853 votes. Critics agree, scoring it 81%.

Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same day and is forced to fight and die again... and again - as physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop. Wikipedia ↗

Edge of Tomorrow is a 2014 American science fiction action film directed by Doug Liman and starring Tom Cruise as Major William Cage, a public affairs officer with no combat experience who is killed within minutes of being dropped into a massive military invasion against alien invaders on the beaches of France. However, Cage discovers that contact with alien blood has trapped him in a time loop — each time he dies, he wakes up at the beginning of the previous day and must relive the invasion. With each repeated cycle, Cage becomes progressively more skilled and knowledgeable, eventually partnering with Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski, played by Emily Blunt, who experienced the same phenomenon and knows the loop is key to defeating the aliens.

Edge of Tomorrow's premise — essentially Groundhog Day reimagined as a science fiction war film — was executed with remarkable intelligence and energy. The film cleverly compressed and accelerated repeated sequences as the audience's familiarity grew, finding both humor and horror in the repetition. Tom Cruise's willingness to play against type — beginning the film as a cowardly, incompetent officer who dies repeatedly in humiliating and painful ways — gave the character a comedic vulnerability unusual for the action star.

Emily Blunt's Rita Vrataski, nicknamed "Full Metal Bitch" by soldiers who idolize her, was one of the most compelling female action characters in recent science fiction. Edge of Tomorrow earned $370 million worldwide on a $178 million budget, a disappointing theatrical return that led to one of cinema's most effective word-of-mouth campaigns — audiences who discovered the film on home video championed it so vocally that its reputation has grown substantially since release, and it is now widely regarded as one of the finest science fiction action films of the 2010s.