How can man die better: than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods

Rating: 9/10 (7 May 2013)

An intelligent piece of sci-fi directed by Joseph Kosinski after adapting it from his own graphic novel and a more than competent second movie for him as a director (his first being the excellent Tron Legacy).
There is action aplenty in the trailers but the movie itself is more measured and thoughtful. The film provides wave after wave of revelation that had me scratching my head at one point wondering how deep all of it would go. Fairly deep as it turned out. The minimal cast all acquit themselves well. Tom Cruise as Jack Harper carries the film with ease with good support from Andrea Riseborough as the sad and confused Victoria, and also the gorgeous Olga Kurylenko.
Special effects were not overplayed, they didn't need to be, but there were some great scenes of the ruined Earth, ie the harbour of ships that is now a desert and the bombed Pentagon, etc etc.
Last year's Prometheus should have been like this, and not the mindless rubbish it was, I wish more films had as much care and thought put into the storyline as Oblivion.
Try and see this film before it expires at the cinema, you won't regret it.