Oblivion (2013)
Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. His existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands.
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Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.
One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
This movie is entirely built around beautiful set pieces, included no matter how many irrational plot devices that is necessary to facilitate them.Oblivion is evidence that the big movie companies assumes that most viewers are stupid. The long line of 10/10 reviews here is evidence that they are right.Few things in this movie makes any sense whatsoever, from the stupid energy scheme to the pointless technological gadgets all the way to the transparent pool. This movie is dumb, painfully stupid, mindlessly pretty. Perhaps it's little surprise that the average movie goer would love it.If you are equipped with a three digit IQ on the other hand... don't waste your time.
People who say there are countless plotholes, are completely right. But I was more bothered by the woman's role in this movie. She was just there to love the hero and that love helped him to remember. It's like in this old action movies where the super buffed up very manly heroes have a (of course very beautiful, soft and loving) woman on their side so we can see their weak side and we know for what they are fighting. Until the very end I didn't understand what that woman was good for. She was a pilot, she was no damsel in distress, so why make her appear so weak? I'm really surprised that nobody seems to be bothered by this. We have so many movies out there where woman are potrayed much stronger and braver than man (which is ridiculous and unrealistic) and then we have such movies where they reduce a woman to her role as a caring and loving wife - who somehow got pregnant at the end of the movie and I don't know when that happened! I would prefer something in the middle: an interesting, strong woman who is no superwoman at the same time. Well, that said, the sci fi part was spectacular, I loved the scenery, the cinematography, the pace, the mood, the mystery. I was not bored for one second and that means something when a movie has a run time of two hours. I think 8 stars are well deserved considered how much I enjoyed the movie, even though the ending wasn't the most inventive.
This movie is really good in almost every way. CGI and other effects make the whole thing look really beautiful. Tom Cruise is way underrated as an actor, and most of this movie's haters are just Tom Cruise haters. The musical scores were really cool as well, and the action scenes were thrilling and fun. But in fact suffers from the same flaw as Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. That problem is the plot. It's a big over complicated, and at times, poorly explained. The movie can be pretty confusing, but once you make sense of it, you realize just how creative and well done it is. The problem is figuring out what the plot is.
Joseph Kosinski's 'Oblivion' is hidden classic, albeit a somewhat formulaic one. However much so, the formula is complex enough, containing homages and stolen riffs from many sci-fi and CGI classics of the past (not to mention _The English Patient_ ) such that it amounts to superb recipe, the kind one would hope find in the Sunday New York Times Magazine.I was most impressed by the film's spare approach to CGI--way more than a dash, but mostly not delivered in ham-fisted dollops--that combined with seamless integration of the flesh-and-blood actors' roles, effectively render the story into a visual masterpiece of post-apocalyptic storytelling. Granted, some of the effects are predictable enough to be cheesy: cue the Empire State building, George Washington Bridge, then the Brooklyn Bridge, encrusted in ice and tsunami effluvia. Post-nuclear-winter Broadway is an icy valley of crumbling structures, glimpsed multiple times and at multiple angles. Englewood Cliffs is a shoal of broken ice covered over with rock and other debris, finished a light seasonal coating of green. At one point, the partially entombed torch of Liberty makes its appearance leaning right from the left of frame, exactly at the same angle as it does in an iconic scene from the original Planet of the Apes. Such visual abundance would be cloying except there is plenty of easy-to-follow action with a fine cast, including expectedly strong performance by Tom Cruise. Like Tron of late, the action at turns is personal and human, then sound- and light-effected immersive video bravery. This one is worth the DVD. There's something for kids and adults both through multiple viewings.