So the title is a joke, right?

Rating: 5/10 (6 April 2016)

Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion (2013) is visually beautiful and almost totally pointless. It's obvious that the story is, thin as it is, a way to blow a lot of CGI dollars and beautiful scenery and give Tom Cruise a chance to show off his manly-man physique.
Since I'm not interested in Cruise's musculations, the female leads are equally forgettable (I'm not even motivated to look up their names), and Morgan Freeman is totally wasted, I'm left with remembering bits of scenery, landscapes, colors, textures, and that really cool helicopter-spaceship that Cruise cruises around in, with a bobble- head on the dashboard to make him seem, well, whatever. Not so bland, I guess, or cutesy-human-one-foot-in-our-time.
I think the biggest trouble with Oblivion is that fairly early on, we find out something about the aliens, the "Scavs," that sucks out all the air from the movie's environment suit.
The viewer says, "Well, hell . . . "
Then when we're supposed to get up in arms over the real baddies, the needle on the giveacrapometer won't budge.
So, for the next hour or seven, we're stuck in . . .
wait for it . . .
waaaiiit . . .
Oblivion.
Man, that felt good.