![]() The Edge of Tomorrow gave me that feeling, while ALL YOU NEED IS KILL left me feeling slightly… empty. Sometimes I want to fist-pump in the air after finishing a story. For me, while I love the grimdark that is all over the place, sometimes I just want a story of pure heroism. Which version you like better will depend on your outlook. The movie, on the other hand, is a war story where character growth is the focus, and the ending strives for real heroism. A tragic ending that feels out of place and shoehorned in. The novel is a gritty war story that forces a tragic ending upon the reader. Ultimately, the movie and the novel are telling a different story, and I think this is why I liked the movie better. But the progression we get to see of a character as he becomes a better person. That story trait is one of the main reasons why I am such a David Gemmell fan. The thing I like most about this story is the chance for one person to become a literal hero. My comparison this time around is ALL YOU NEED IS KILL by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, and the movie "Edge of Tomorrow". In the movie it’s pretty much “Hey there are aliens! And they wanna kill us all!” The novel, with just a simple explanation, really gives them a bit more meat.īut even with all this, it still isn’t enough to overcome the issues that the novel has in tone and in main character development. The other place where the novel shines is in its brief description of where the Mimics come from. And again, the Full Metal Bitch’s backstory is fleshed out way more…and yet I felt like she had more personality in the movie, and was much more relatable. The other characters in the squad have a bit more personality as well. The sergeant-played extremely well by Bill Paxton in the movie-has a much more defined backstory in the book. Now there are places where the novel surpasses the movie. Additionally, the character progression was much better in the movie. But to me this is definitely the case with the movie. The relationship between Cage/Keiji and the Full Metal Bitch was so much more refined in the movie. But the movie worked better in terms of character and WAY better in terms of an ending. This isn’t to say I didn’t enjoy the novel, because I did. So, to be super blunt, I thought the movie was way better than the novel. Turns out the main PoV has hijacked the Alien power. The Military Science Fiction version of Groundhog Day. Cage/Keiji dies super quick (within minutes of the battle beginning), but not before taking out a very different looking Mimic.Īnd then the main character wakes up, and lives that same day again. Anyway, the main character is thrust into battle, and it’s a trap set by the Mimics. The movie does a way better job of actually giving some character background for the main PoV, while the novel does better with the main secondary female character, a female soldier known as the Full Metal Bitch. The change didn’t bother me at all, because the person’s race has no actual bearing on the story. After all, in the movie the main PoV is American, and in the book Japanese. This is where the differences start creeping in. Earth will be saved, and all that.Įnter the main character of the story. This makes it so the propaganda centers on the effectiveness of the suits, and how Earth is going to beat the Aliens back. In one of the first major conflicts using the suits, a female solider is able to kill a ton of the aliens-or Mimics, as they are called. Everything is going as poorly as possible. Also, I way prefer the name of the book to that of the movie. However, I tried to ramp up my criticalness for the movie this time around, knowing I’d be doing this review. The second is that I typically go far easier on movies than on literature-a critic needs to have something he can just enjoy. My first disclaimer is that there will a few more spoilers in this review than in others. ![]() ![]() My comparison this time around is ALL YOU NEED IS KILL ( Amazon) by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, and the movie Edge of Tomorrow ( Amazon). I realize how fruitless such comparisons can be, and I also realize that most people opt for the auto-response of “the book is better”. Half the fun of it is the whole process of comparing the two versions and having that debate about which is “better”. ![]() I am continually fascinated by novels and short stories being made into movies and TV shows. ![]()
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