Oblivion hits a few wrong buttons; however, it can't be totally ignored.

Rating: 7/10 (30 May 2015)

While it is thinly scripted and my reaction to the story is more or less mixed Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion is visually striking, original and greatly benefits from its strong production values and I thought that it had enough of these production values to satisfy and that they served up the story well. The movie has a few entertaining action sequences and a few interesting action set pieces. I thought that the combination of sf, romance, action, mystery and drama was interesting and that it made Oblivion a stylish genre film. The movie also has a few great and unexpected plot twists, a few memorable quotes and a few scenes with beautifully sustained awe. The scene where Tom Cruise meets up for the first time with a clone of himself is an example of it. When I first saw that scene my mind got so bombed up because I didn't expect this part of the story to come at all and it was a complete surprise to me as well as strange and I didn't even know what on Earth's name was going on even as Jack defeated the other Jack and went inside his Bubble Ship. When I first saw a second Tom Cruise in the movie I started shouting in my head out loud "Hey!? What on earth!?" and "Wait! Is it Cruise's character's future self having somewhat come back to the past!?" This plot twist was so original, so great, so surprising, unexpected, breathtaking, strange and incomprehensible that I started considering it to be the most beautifully sustained awe moment that I've ever experienced in any movies in my entire life in memory. The story kept me interested all the way through to the end of the film. I felt that the cameo appearance of the devastated Statue of the Liberty was unnecessary because it has already been used in a few or more disaster movies, making it clichéd. Another problem was the score sound when the Oblivion title showed up on screen because this score sound reminded me of Inception. Though Oblivion is not a great film so I can recommend it to you I still recommend it to you to see and add it in my MUST-SEE list of movies because many of the movie's elements are so impressive and unique, making Oblivion a successful film in its own right. I'm glad to have watched Oblivion. My rating for Oblivion: 7.0/10