Boring.................................. A Missed Opportunity

Rating: 3/10 (6 July 2013)

Oblivion
** (out of 4)
124 mins/ 12
Cast: Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Melissa Leo, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Plot: Jack Harper is a drone repairman working on a post-apocalypse Earth. With only a few days until he leaves the planet, Jack discovers a crashed spacecraft, which leads him to the truth about how Earth was brought to its knees.
JJ's Verdict: Tom Cruise has hit a career low in this bore-fest. The first hour of the film just sees him flying around his designated area, repairing drones and talking about boring Super Bowl matches to his wife (Andrea Riseborough, the film's only bright spark). This would be okay if we were treated to an hour of explosive non-stop action after this but we're not. There is more talking and even when the few action sequences come along they are mainly dull and somehow uninteresting. The filmmakers' have taken a good concept and, although made its scenery and effects very nice to look at, put in absolutely no character development.
I was going to accept this film when Morgan Freeman came in and delighted us with his presence but his role is little more than a few minutes long. And don't even ask me what was happening in the last half an hour. The film rushed key plot elements meaning the film was extremely hard to follow. A missed opportunity here, and even Cruise plays it extremely one-dimensional.