Friday, May 17, 2013

Oblivion

Sci-Fi, Drama
4 stars
Good, but a little slow.  Tom Cruise stars in this futuristic film that feels like a combination of WALL-E and Total Recall.  Cruise and Andrea Riseborough are on Earth to maintain the machines that are sucking the ocean water from earth to be used in the spaceship the earthlings had been evacuated to after a war ruined the planet.   But things change when he meets the strangely familiar Olga Kurylenko as well as Morgan Freeman.  Then the movie feels like it steals a little from Star Wars chase scenes and a touch of 2001: A Space Odyssey.  But the combination of influences from other films works here.  I liked it.

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