A new low for Tom Cruise

Rating: 4/10 (19 April 2013)

I did not have great expectations with OBLIVION. TRON 2 was really a piece of crap with nice FX. Sadly I was not wrong; but the effects are better.
I really liked Tom when he was a human person with defects and qualities (RISKY BUSINESS, TOP GUN, COCKTAIL, JERRY MACGUIRE; even the first MI ). In his new face as action hero; Tom became just PERFECT. He is always the nicest, the strongest, the smartest and all the ...est you can find. That could work for a while but after so many movies it just became a repetition of exactly the same. If you do not believe me see back to back OBLIVION and JACK REACHER.
Here his acting is basically a repetition of his sad, fierce, tender, loving and surprised face. It is a pity he gave up on Oscar's glory; he should have done that with the action hero mode.
The story is a mixture of the shallow elements of MOON, 2001 and a couple of Bradbury tales (in fact I am pretty sure Martian Chronicles includes a very similar tale); but because of the high budget it never becomes existentialist but violent in the third act. The problem is that the few action scenes are not really interesting. The shutdown with the drones has some dramatic effect but even GI JOE II gets better battles.
The worst part is the epilogue; SPOILER begins After an heroic act; he cannot stay dead; he has to be resurrected.
END OF SPOILER.
In brief; Tom can do better. He does not need to be controlled by the Hollywood machine. Reject this movie so he tries to give us something worth seeing.