Tuesday 12 November 2013

Oblivion (Joseph Kosinski, 2013)

Tom Cruise sails in to rescue humanity once more, with aliens having wiped out the world as we know it and him as a jet-flying caretaker for the whole planet, which seems to consist of only American ruins. He's a maverick, of course, constantly questioning his orders to leave things as they are and with a hidey-hole where he can shoot hoops and listen to Led Zep. Morgan Freeman turns up in standard post-apocalyptic gear at some point to cash his cheque, there's a computer-game dogfight sequence and then the highest-level Thetan saves the day by dying and not dying all at once, because he's Tom Cruise. Highly illogical, Captain.

4/10

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