![]() ![]() ![]() Cruise's character, Jack, explains in voiceover that that's how aliens, called Scavengers, obliterated humankind. They're so conscientiously neutral, so droningly dull, that they almost pass for Stanley Kubrick (technical difficulties) big.īig, white impersonal settings on a big barren landscape under a big fractured moon, for one big segment broken off and simply hanging, suspended, or (technical difficulties). Yet "Oblivion's" early scenes do exert a strange fascination. Ron Hubbard movie "Battlefield Earth."īut making a film with Joseph Kosinski - director of "Tron: Legacy" - is like taking a multiple choice survey that says: I want my space movies more, A, incoherent, B, plotting or, C, migraine-inducing and checking E, all of the above. Nothing will ever be as shatteringly inane as Travolta's L. Film critic David Edelstein has this review.ĭAVID EDELSTEIN, BYLINE: As I suffered through the Tom Cruise vehicle "Oblivion" I wondered if Cruise was trying to beat out fellow Scientologist John Travolta for the worst plotted sci-fi movie ever. "Oblivion" is based on a graphic novel co-written by Joseph Kosinski, who went on to direct the film, and it costars Morgan Freeman and Melissa Leo. In December, Tom Cruise starred as the title character in the film "Jack Reacher." In "Oblivion," which opened on Friday, he plays another Jack, one of few humans left on an Earth devastated by an alien invasion. ![]()
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