Star rating: **
Considering that the last time Tom Cruise was seen in a film was Jack Reacher, Oblivion promised to be yet another Cruise adventure but this time of the sci-fi kind. With a silver suited Cruise gracing the posters, it seemed that this would just as action packed film as Cruise's films always promise.
Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) is a self-reliant and tough soldier/technician in the late 21st century where he spends him time fixing drones that patrol planet Earth. The planet has been destroyed after a nuclear war against alien invaders and its surface is inhabited with scavs aka scavengers. He works with adoring Victoria (Andrea Riseborough) to monitor humanity's final emigration to one of Saturn's moons. His immediate memory has been wiped but he keeps having a reoccurring romantic dream where he keeps meeting Julia (Olga Kurylenko).
Confused? You will be watching this film. Tom Cruise spends a lot of time with a worried expression on his face whilst he flies through space. He has some romantic scenes with Riseborough and Kurylenko but the women really are pretty props in the film and just as disposable. Morgan Freeman is entirely useless in his supporting actor role and could have done much more in this film. It is almost like the writers themselves got lost writing this incredibly long-winded complicated storyline and by the end of it, you begin to lose hope in the entire film. There are some fantastic CGI created of the post-war Earth surface with remnants of famous skylines scattered across the screen. Overall, the story for this film just didn't work and it went on for too long.
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