Oblivion stars Tom Cruise as Jack, a drone repair man in what's left of the Earth following a war that destroyed it but one day he sees a ship crash down to the planet with a very familiar face that has been haunting him in his very dreams.Oblivion is sadly a film of two halves for me, the first half I thought was kind of interesting with its wide visuals, sparse soundtrack and little dialogue calling the shots and giving you everything that you needed to know.
But sadly the film's second half kills it stone dead by turning into a pastiche of most major Sci-Fi films like 2001, Predator, Mad Max, Star Wars and The Terminator to name as examples and as a result the film lost me in a big way to the point where I just switched off from the whole thing and stopped caring about what happened to Cruise's character.
And as for Cruise himself, he's actually not that bad here but he also didn't really grab me either, he just seemed to sit in the middle throughout the film and playing it safe as he has done many times before and as a result you don't really want to get invested in his character or what might happen to him as the film goes on towards its very dull finish.
And so, Oblivion is not a terrible film by any stretch of the imagination but it is also not that good and frankly plays it too safe, its saddens me that in a world where the biggest film of all time "Avatar" is a Sci-Fi flick and yet this is all we get in the aftermath of its enormous success, the fans of this genre myself included deserve much better than films like this, guess you could chalk this one up as my first disappointment of the year folks, 1.5 out of 5.
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