Pre Edge of Tomorrow.

Rating: 7/10 (26 May 2015)

Oblivion (2013): Dir: Joseph Kosinski / Cast: Tom Cruise, Olga Kurylenka, Morgan Freeman, Andrea Riseborough, Melissa Leo: Set in the distant future of 2077 where earth has been attacked by some alien force and any remaining human life strives on a space station. Tom Cruise plays a drone repairman who brings any remaining resources back to the station. His partner is Andrea Riseborough and together they take orders from an image on a computer screen. Olga Kurylenka plays into it when she and her crew are discovered in their sleep quarters, which landed on earth. These quarters are destroyed by drones but Cruise saves her and seems to recall her from his past. It turns out that she is his wife. These leads Cruise to question everything including any possibility of an alien attack when Morgan Freeman enters the picture. He and a group of soldiers are hidden on earth and capture Cruise until understanding is met and questions presented. Director Joseph Kosiniski presents an entertaining screenplay that is joined by superb visuals. Cruise holds strong as someone questioning everything while conjuring memories that he struggles to piece together. Kurylenka and Riseborough are well cast as females who occupy opposite ends of Cruise's past. Only Freeman's role seems underwritten and more or less typecast. Also Melissa Leo is limited to more or less playing a computer as a contact. Entertaining yet totally made up of pieces of other films including Wall-E, Minority Report, Blade Runner, and ultimately Hal the computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Score: 7 ½ / 10