Pretty good - spoiled by too much artistic licence

Rating: 7/10 (20 October 2013)

It's another apocalyptic earth movie, beautifully filmed carefully scripted and intelligently directed (on the whole). Some people can't stand Tom Cruise, but I am a child of the Risky Business era, so despite his personal weirdness, I enjoy his movies! Not much to say about this movie, I thought it was great, a much cleverer plot than I expected. Several of the unbelievable "coincidences" pan out to be rational as you progress through the movie, so stick with it! But there is still one coincidence that remains a constant irritation. I'd love to see and "Editors Cut" where they fix this. It is not giving much away to say that this takes place on an apparently post apocalyptic earth, and very few buildings of any kind survive... It just so happens that the few that do are all dead famous New York landmarks. So the goal posts in the NFL stadium survive and the coin opp binoculars on the Empire State building survive, but there is no trace of civilisation between, no other buildings, no other evidence of streets or any previous habitation. Call me a kill joy, but this knocked a couple of marks off my rating and left me positively cringing! Apart from that give it ago and just try and guess the ending!!