... And Led Zeppelin Still Rules Amongst Clones In The Year 2077!?

Rating: 2/10 (16 July 2014)

Personally, I think that directors like Joseph Kosinski, Zack Snyder and Christopher Nolan, who win the bid to direct big-budget, CGI-saturated, Sci-Fi pictures (with PG-13 ratings), are definitely getting off way-way too easy with their job.
Since these mega-movies they direct are clearly aimed at the low intellectual-demand of a 13 year-old kid, then these directors (along with the screenwriters) really don't have to give a sweet-damn whether coherency and/or plausibility are at all a factor in the story.
No. Just as long as there's ample time given over to the likes of booming explosions, one-on-one combat, and a literal onslaught of heavy-duty CG effects, then that's all that's required to sufficiently satisfy the demand of an average 13 year-old.
And this, of course, was exactly the case with Oblivion and its PG-13 rating.
Unfortunately, what made Oblivion fall flat on its face even faster than most other nonsensical, PG-13, set-in-the-future, Sci-Fi films was the casting of the 5' 7" Tom Thumb (oops!)... I mean, Tom Cruise.
After being an actor for 33 years now, this would-be priest and Scientology ass-kisser still hasn't improved one-bit in this multi-million-dollar profession that he's chosen. Even today, Cruise still comes across as being just as shallow and one-dimensional as he did back in 1981's Endless Love.
Here in Oblivion Cruise couldn't even convincingly play a character named Jack Harper who was a cloned, gum-chewing, ball-capped, little jock, yearning to re-live the big game at Yankee Stadium.
What made this particular Cruise-vehicle doubly-unbearable was the ridiculous knock-down, drag-out fight that took place between 2 Harper clones who just happened to cross paths for no apparent reason, whatsoever.
What also lost Oblivion some serious points was the casting of that dullard, Morgan Freeman (one of Hollywood's worst black actors) as the self-satisfied, cigar-sucking chump, Malcolm Beech. The truth is Beech had no real purpose in the story. He was just another diversion, plunked into place in order to create some more tiresome conflict with Jack Harper.
Just like a piece of perforated Swiss cheese, Oblivion was riddled to the rafters with plot-holes, flaws and inconsistencies galore. This film was truly an insult to any rational-minded, thinking person.
And, finally - I think it was absolute crap to hear that in the year 2077 people were still saying trite, meaningless nonsense like "Oh, my god!" whenever the element of surprise or shock overtook them.