Phone It In Freeman

Rating: 7/10 (19 February 2015)

Continuing my plan to watch every Tom Cruise movie in order, I come to Oblivion (2013)
Plot In A Paragraph: In the year 2077, Jack (Tom Cruise) is a drone repairmen, and is one of the last remaining humans assigned to Earth, its surface devastated after decades of war with the alien Scavs, discovers a crashed spacecraft with contents that bring into question everything he believed about the war.
In the late eighties (starting with 'Street Smart' opposite Christopher Reeve) and particularly the early to mid nineties. Morgan Freeman could do no wrong in my book. A wonderful actor who brought a touch of class to every movie he made.
Then something happened, every movie maker and studio caught on to the fact, and he suddenly became the 'go to' guy. Then suddenly he was everywhere releasing several movies a year, all of varying quality. Often he was in supporting roles. Some were still enjoyable (Million Dollar Baby, Bruce Almighty and Now You See Me) some were not (take your pick) and you often think "I hope he was well paid" as he clearly took this for the money.
Oblivion is one of the latter, he turns up for his big pay check in return for small screen time, in which he pretty much sleepwalks through the movie. Cruise can rarely be accused of phoning it in, but despite the concept, this movie seemed very same old, same old from him. It was over long and I'm not 100% sure I fully understood what happened!!
That said, Olga Kurylenko definitely brightens things up when she is on screen! However sadly Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau (Jamie Lannister in Game Of Thrones) is not given as much to do as one would hope.
I didn't hate this movie, it was watchable. I just didn't really care about what was happening!!
Oblivion grossed $89 million at the domestic box office to end 2013 as the 41st highest grossing movie of the year.