Good idea, badly executed..

Rating: 7/10 (26 April 2013)

The problem with Joseph Kosinski is that he doesn't know how to keep his audience entertained when there is no action on the screen. You can notice what I'm talking about in Oblivion and also in his recent sequel movie, TRON: Legacy. Kosinski is missing that attention grabbing direction in his dialogue scenes. All that he provides during those scenes are the beautiful visuals on the screen but, even those are not enough. When the action sequences do come along, Kosinski does a great job visually and also an awesome job thinking them out. Even though there isn't much action in Oblivion, they are very visually stunning sequences, even in TRON: Legacy. Another thing that I disliked about this movie is the looong beginning that dragged on for too long. There were many scenes that I found were just extremely boring and dragged on. There were also many scenes that I think could have been made better (for example, when Jack goes down the hole to repair the destroyed drone.) Overall, this movie was filled with amazing visuals and a great, original story, I just feel like it could have been executed a lot better. But at the same time, I feel like other directors couldn't have brought on the emotional feelings that came with Kosinski's directing (for example, the hidden valley that Jack discovers.) I can't give this movie no more than a 7/10.