In a dystopian future, there once lived a couple in their prime in the sky far above a barren world

Rating: 4/10 (19 November 2017)

spoiler warning.
'Ideal' man (Cruise) and woman (Riseborough) live in a house in the sky. They have the job to repair the damage of rogue attacks on the water supplies of the massive spaceship that has saved surviving humans. So far so good, man goes out to do dangerous work, comes home and has sex with beautiful woman. So far so good, it's recognizable for brave soldiers and for the kids this film aims for. Only in Oblivion it's not a 4 months mission in the sand, it is an everyday happening. Danger and reward,all of it.
An accident happens and Cruise takes back home another beautiful woman (Kurylenko). The soldiers and even the kids in the audience know: TROUBLE.
Director of Photography Claudio Miranda photographed some very good films 'Benjamin Button', 'Life of Pi' and nothing is wrong with the photography in 'Oblivion'. Wrong are the many chiche's, wrong is the production that lays to much emphasis on effects, wrong is production design to slick, wrong in the end is the story that generates all the cliche's that are duly amplified by its main male antagonists turned protagonists played by Cruise and Freeman.