That does sound like a satisfying plot for a movie. However it would be just a cruel tease if Tom lived at the end. It would be an interesting premise for a movie if Baptists, Scientologists, Mormons, and whoever, adopted the Taliban’s Islamic method of spreading their religion.
It would be one way to see whose God is mas Macho.
That's not a premise for a movie, that's Election 2014.The plot... and this is for Edge Of Tomorrow -- works out to Groundhog Day during an alien invasion, with a military twist. William Cage, happy and proud coward, manages to get on the wrong side of a general and thus winds up on the beach at the new D-Day. (With mild irony, in France.) He dies. Painfully. But not before killing one of the aliens with an updated Claymore.
He then wakes up on the day before his involuntary deployment, remembering everything. And gets to die again.
Repeat.
It gets a bit action movie syfy from there, but part of the core is that on any replay where Cage does not defeat the invasion, the only way to try again is to die. An invasion he is in no way equipped to fight. So he dies a lot. And when he finally tries to train, any injury sustained there which would take him out of the combat? Means he has to die. There is a ton of graveyard humor in this movie, and said graveyard is completely filled with the failures of William Cage.
So if you've ever wanted to see Tom Cruise die? This is your movie. Dear gawds, is this your movie.
Your throat may go raw from cheering. Pace yourself.