When the bullets aren't flying, it's pretty engaging sci-fi

Rating: 7/10 (10 February 2015)

The best of what "Oblivion" has to offer is its unique look. It features a distinctive style and design from the weapons, air/spacecraft to the architecture (man, that house in the sky is something) that makes this Apple store future inviting. This is a visually attractive movie, there can be no doubt.
It's somewhere in the second half that the movie starts to question everything thus far, and switches gears into action movie with a series of shootouts. Surprisingly, this is where it started to lose me. Even so, the answers provided in the third act are a nice payoff. Iit ends on a poignant, hopeful note. For a Tom Cruise sci-fi, it's a solid movie - not as satisfying as "Edge of Tomorrow" or "Minority Report", but still pretty good. And after "TRON: Legacy", Joseph Kosinski is someone to keep an eye on.
7/10