Starring: Tom Cruise, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough
In the year 2017, aliens fleeing their dying home planet
landed on the Moon and began a war between them and Earth. The destruction to
the Moon caused earthquakes and floods and the resulting nuclear war finished
off most of the Earth’s atmosphere. Sixty years on, Jack (Cruise) and Victoria
(Riseborough) are two surviving humans living above Earth’s atmosphere,
surveying the planet and ridding it of remaining aliens, known as “Scavs”. When
Jack discovers and rescues a sixty-year-old escape pod containing a woman
(Kurylenko) he recognises from his dreams, a whole new reality starts to dawn
on Jack.
Directed by Joseph Kosinski (and based off of his own
graphic novel), Oblivion treads a fine line between mainstream-friendly
pop-science fiction and more cerebral and esoteric material, lurching further
towards the latter as the film goes on. It’s a film that wears its influences
on its sleeve, with a story that meshes elements from Aliens (1986) and 2001: A
Space Odyssey (1968). It twists and it turns but doesn’t take a very
interesting shape until the movie is well underway, just enough to stop you
losing interest completely. However, the film does have a great sound and set
design and the final moments of the film are a real tour-de-force.
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