Will
Oblivion Excite Movie Fans?
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review of Tom Cruise's Oblivion C+
In his
new movie Tom Cruise takes moviegoers into a future where
Earth’s moon has been destroyed, and the human race is
rebuilding after an alien attack. The humans won the war
but in doing so destroyed the planet using nuclear weapons.
In this new world Tom’s character Jack Harper and his
partner Victoria played by Andre Riseborough must help
restore the planet using huge triangle mechanical like
devices which clean the planets radiation. In different
scenes you see a planet that has been uninhabited for
years. The Pentagon is destroyed and filled with dirt, the
White House is partial underground, and the country’s
sporting stadiums look like landfills.
The flick has the same feeling as Will Smith’s “I Am
Legend” for the first twenty minutes or so, one person
roaming around a devastated Earth. Even though there’s
nothing but ruins in each scene it’s shot beautiful. The
lone threats are Sav’s scavenger aliens that attack humans
and the droids that protect them. Jack’s job is to repair
droids and get the Earth cleaned up on schedule. From time
to time Jack and his partner report to command for updates
and assistance. Before taking on this mission Jack and
partner had to undergo a mind wipe where they can’t
remember anything before their mission.
The movie takes a turn when a space vessel carrying human
bodies crashes onto the planet and Julia Rusakova played by
Olga Kurylenko enters the flick. Slowly her relationship
with Jack is revealed. In this movie you have to pay
attention, there is very little explained. The story has
plenty of gaps but once you get the jest of the flick it’s
pretty much predictable. If you put together the beginning
of “I Am Legend” and the end of “Independents Day” you have
Oblivion. The movie has its spots and the action scenes are
on point but for a two-hour movie Oblivion leaves you
unsatisfied. For someone that’s new to this genre
“Oblivion” is a must watch but for Sci-Fi and comic book
movie fans there’s nothing here we haven’t seen before. The
movie stars Cruise and Morgan Freeman both were heavily
advertised in the promotion of Oblivion. With all that said
the movie should do good because of the lack of
competition.