Brilliant beginning

Rating: 6/10 (14 April 2013)

Once past the initial old memory scene, the second scene where Jack's monologue summarises the current state of play is visually stunning and is complimented by a powerful score which has great momentum. Tom Cruises monologue is superbly spoken and contains brief but shocking descriptions, with the score matching at this point which then reaches a crescendo as the films title appears. Absolutely brilliant!
He flies off and lands to repair a drone. From this point onwards the film becomes quite ordinary. There are some great moments beyond this but overall it is not so good. There are several revelations but none of them have great impact! (Spoilers follow) Jack finds out that he has been killing humans every time he thought he was killing aliens. He should have been puking at this revelation but his reaction is non-existent. He finds out that he is one of many clones but there is no great revelation moment for us as his reaction is negligible.
I think there are scenes where the budget was clearly low such as the underground human complex which is small and has too few extras, the destruction of the spaceship which is unconvincing and the old human affected landscapes which were nicely stark but lacked the detail which the illustrated novel had described such as at the ship graveyard.
In summary, some great concepts and at times visually stunning but was not able to deliver the impact that such powerful revelations should have provided.