A poor use of 2.5hrs...

Rating: 3/10 (5 May 2013)

A brief review of the movie 'Oblivion'
I should start by saying that there will be a couple spoilers coming up, so if you really want to see Oblivion, frankly after seeing it I cannot imagine why you would, don't read any further. This is a spoiler alert.
I cannot easily express in words how bored and disappointed I was with this movie. It is tediously predictable, with stereotypical (main plot) characters with no real character development to speak of.
There's the 'bad ass' military guy (Tom Cruise), the 'emotionally broken/O.A.G.' lover character (Andrea Riseborough), and the 'surprise! I'm actually your wife' character who's supposed to be an important character to the overall story but you just don't care (Olga Kurylenko), and then we come to the 'Old guy who's kinda strange and is thought to be the enemy, but actually knows sh#t, and is actually a good guy' character (Morgan Freeman). We're expected to care about these characters, especially the first 3 mentioned, but you honestly don't. You especially have no reason to after it hits about the 1.5hr mark when a (read: another) predictable event happens (the "enemy" are actually people not aliens, and the "good guys" are actually the alien bad guys...).
Tom Cruise played his role fairly well, but it was similar to many other roles he's had. He's really the only character you sort of care about to a small extent. Andrea Riseborough was just plain annoying, she reminded me of Overly Attached Girlfriend to be honest. Olkga Kurylenko didn't play the role very well, however her role wasn't brilliant anyway. Morgan Freeman was unsurprisingly the best in his role, and suited his character very well as the old guy who knows sh#t.
There are scenes in Oblivion which I couldn't help but think "Man, this director really is a fan of Star Wars". There's just so many things wrong with this movie, things which should be a basic feature of any movie (except for perhaps a porno) - Character development: You won't find any of that here. Original plot ideas: You won't find these here either. Plot twists/interesting events: Again, something which doesn't exist here. The feeling of being immersed in another world: Nope.
I went into this movie actually expecting something somewhat substantial, I mean this movie does have Morgan Freeman after all! Sadly, I was presented with a 2.5hr long sleeping pill. I literally held off going to the toilet just to distract myself from the boring misery on the screen, just to have something else to do.
I suppose it was visually well done, and I did like the scene where Tom Cruise fights Tom Cruise, but other than that it was a complete waste of time that I'm never getting back. I hope Morgan Freeman was paid a lot of money for this role, because it's by far the worse movie I've seen him in; I'm including the 'Evan All Mighty' series of films in this too.
TLDR: Oblivion is a bad movie. Don't waste your time.