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All You Need Is Kill is a dazzling movie with the soul of a video game

While Hollywood has repeatedly tried adapting stories from Japanese manga, vanishingly few of them have been as good as Edge

of Tomorrow – Warner Bros.’ 2014 live-action film based on Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s sci-fi light novel All You Need Is Kill. Edge of Tomorrow wasn’t a one-to-one translation of All You Need Is Kill‘s original story or its manga adaptation by Takeshi Obata, Ryosuke Takeuchi, and Yoshitoshi Abe. The movie was more militaristic and focused on humanity rallying against an alien invasion.

But Edge of Tomorrow understood that what made its source material so powerful was its imaginative exploration of what it means to be tenaci …

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