Great movie with great visuals

Rating: 9/10 (16 December 2014)

Oblivion takes place on a futuristic version of earth in the year 2077. A war has broken out between two sides: Humans and Alien Scavs. The humans won the war, but it cost them the earth. They used nukes, which solved the problem temporarily but has forever ruined the earth's surface. The remaining inhabitants that survived the war are living on one of Jupiter's moons. Orbiting above the earth there is a space station called the Tet. Inside of the Tet is Sally (Melissa Leo). She gives orders to Jack (Tom Cruise) and Julia (Olga Kurylenko) who are the last 2 survivors on Earth. Jack is a drone repairman. His job each day is to fix the drones that Julia assigns him (Alien Scavs like to shoot down the drones and steal the cores of them for their use). With only 2 weeks remaining and vivid flashbacks of his past, can he make it off the earth to be reestablished with the human population?
This movie has quite a bit of action and plot twists; in fact you will probably be at the edge of your seat throughout the whole movie. The special effects for the scenes in space are through the roof, amazing. For someone like me, who appreciates the reality of space, they did a great of portraying it. Especially when they were describing how the Alien Scavs had blown up the moon. The camera slowly pans up in the night sky and you can see the moon with blown up bits around it.
A music group known as M83 made the soundtrack. Many people know this group for their song titled, "Midnight City". I really think music can make or break how much a scene matters and they did a great job with the movie score. It stars Tom Cruise, but also has Morgan Freeman in it and he is great in this movie. I can't say too much about Morgan Freeman except that I wish he would have had more of a role in the movie, but he is present in the movie for a little. The costumes actually play a big role in the movie. They are designed really well and are used in the movie for more than looks. For example, the Alien Scavs use fighter jet helmets not only to hide their faces, but because they have radio's built into them for communication and it masks their voice from being comprehensible. They use these throughout the whole movie and many other props.
The movie is around the 2-hour mark, so it's slightly longer than an average movie but they do not waste time, something is always going on. Instead of being like a movie that could really be less than an hour but they end up dragging it one for an hour and a half. Overall I think that this would be a good movie for anyone who likes Action/Sci-Fi genre movies. The movie is visually stunning and the plot is brilliant. This movie will definitely leave you wondering whether something like this could ever happen in real life.