Interesting

Rating: 7/10 (17 November 2013)

OK. A giant upside down pyramid decides to pool earth's resources together for its survival, and uses the clones of a couple of astronauts it kidnapped in outer space to run the daily chores of world domination, whilst convincing these astronauts they're acting in their own interests by concocting a story involving scavs and a eventual refuge in a place called Titan. (Naughty pyramid.)
(Titan was a moon the astronauts were originally investing, ahh..)
The opening hour of the film is well directed and engaging. Its only when a space craft carrying the sleeping passengers of the original mission (Investigating Titan) is intercepted by Cruise that the lid on his past is lifted. (But intercepted originally by the scavs who are really humans who want to defeat Tet.) He ultimately discovers he is a clone but the memories he retains enable a relationship with his wife (who was on the original mission too but got cut loose upon being detected by Tet - where the pyramid lives.)
Trying to keep hold of a wriggling fish feels an apt analogy for the plot.
The opening premise is quite promising, there is a day in the life of a star trooper feel as the daily maintenance of North America is carried out.
The survivors are an honest bunch, but come under attack by three drones when they open the doors. What they survive on is perhaps not addressed, so we have to assume its snow and baked beans. Morgan Freeman sort of gets his wish to see "the look on its face" when the bomb detonates but his emergence from the capsule surely must have been tempered with a little disappointment when he finds himself facing a huge inanimate triangle.