'Ahem' you Sally.....

Rating: 7/10 (11 May 2013)

Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen on Earth. Part of an operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, his mission is nearly complete.
Living and patrolling the skies from thousands of feet above, his life is brought crashing down when he rescues a stranger from a spacecraft.
Her arrival triggers events that force him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands.....
After the average ness of both Tron: Legacy and Jack Reacher, my hopes were not very high for this movie. The trailers looked okay, but a film consisting of Cruise finding himself in a world that looks like an expensive Apple commercial didn't really float my boat.
Anyhow, I love Science Fiction, and the comparisons to Moon and almost every single Science Fiction movie of the last five years compelled me to take a chance.
The first half of the film is wonderful, the relationship between Cruise and Risborough is fantastic, and she really makes the film worth watching. This half of the film is the heart to Oblivion, and I could have happily had this for the rest of the film, but it goes another direction.
It goes all Pitch Black for some reason and multiple Tom Cruises and Morgan Freeman turn what could have been some psychedelic Logan's Run type movie into another excuse for Cruise to flex his action muscles.
Otherwise, its great to look at, Cruise does finish with a killer line, and its not too long. Would have love to have seen more Risborough though.