Tuesday, 24 September 2013

Oblivion

Oblivion (2013)
 Starring: Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko.
Director: Joseph Kosinski


 
If you're not a fan of Tom Cruise, then I suggest you stop reading and don't bother hiring/watching this movie. This movie is pretty much 95% Tom Cruise, with very few other actors even in the film.

Jack (Tom Cruise) and Victoria (Andrea Riseborough) live on a suspended platform high above what was once earth. Set in the future, earth has been devastated by an alien species and Jack and Victorias job is to maintain the droids that patrol the ruins seeking out any alien stragglers and repairing broken robots.
Everyday is the same, until one day, Jack discovers that they are not alone and that the truth has been withheld from them for a very long time.

I found this movie gripping and very well told. I think being a scifi fan is an absolute necessity with a movie like this, otherwise it will just bore you to tears.

Visually stunning, but paints a very bleak picture of our beautiful planet.

Tom Cruise is brilliant as Jack and really throws himself into the role. I really wish people would stop judging him by his personal life and start seeing him for what he can be, a fantastic actor.
Smaller but no less important roles from Morgan Freeman and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jamie Lannister from Game of Thrones) make this an entertaining piece from the scifi genre.

Definitely worth a look.

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