Decent sci-fi that doesn't cater to the masses

Rating: 10/10 (2 November 2013)

I thought this was a great film. There are so many movies these days that, no matter how serious the subject matter end up lumbered with some wise-cracking hero who chucks out a sequence of sharp one-liners throughout the entire film whilst taking down all adversaries with ease. These kind of films really cheese me off because the invariable accompaniment to this is a dead awful, dumbed-down plot. Think Independence Day.
Oblivion isn't Independence Day. It's up there with Sunshine, Solaris and Prometheus. If you get bored by complexity or seriousness or lack of non-stop action, don't bother seeing it.
There were a couple of very minor questionable areas of the plot but nothing that couldn't be feasible in context.
I highly recommend Oblivion. It's a solid, well paced movie with some good twists in the plot and some moving moments. The acting is solid, the visuals are amazing and the alien really felt suitably alien too.