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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