Cool Visuals and Ideas but Mediocre Plot

Rating: 6/10 (22 October 2018)

This movie has some incredibly beautiful visuals. The cinematography and special effects are without a doubt the best thing about this movie. It also has some cool sci-fi ideas taken straight from other sci-fi movies like Moon and 2001 A Space Odyssey, but with that being said, the plot is just mediocre and not very well executed. The characters are flat, the movie takes a while to actually get going, and the cool ideas are not fully explored.
This movie has a resistance plot with a character played by Morgan Freeman, but his character and the resistance plot isn't fully explored. It tries to build a romantic relationship but the two characters have no chemistry, and their relationship isn't fully explored. It also involves cloning, but that part of the movie isn't explored either. This movie incorporates so many cool ideas, but the filmmakers seemed too lazy to fully explore them . Instead, we're left with a mostly uninteresting plot that involves Tom Cruise wandering about, stumbling on new revelations about the plot. Also, it tries to have some huge emotional and epic ending, but I didn't care enough about the characters and plot to feel any emotion towards the movie. With the visuals and the amount of cool ideas, this would've be a masterpiece if it was in the hands of a better director and writer like Christopher Nolan or Alex Garland.