Epic Fail

Rating: 2/10 (11 August 2013)

This is one of the worst films of Tom Cruise's career ("Tropic Thunder" is his worst). What is so bad is 1: You can spot so many films that it is trying to steal from ("Total Recall" being the most obvious, but "Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes" (the humans living underground, nuclear warhead and Morgan Freeman's glasses), "Buck Rodgers" (the suspended animation), "Independence Day (the way they delivered the nuke),"Top Gun" and even "Knight And Day" (Cruise on the motorcycle)). 2: It is so predictable, that (spoiler alert) when 'Jack 49' does not kill 'Jack 52', you knew 'Jack 52', would end up with 'Julia' in the end. 3: There is no real evil villain. ex: Is 'Sally' (Melissa Leo) real, a clone, a human, an alien, a computer program, a leader, or what? 4: Too many plot holes. ex: 'Julia' smiled when she saw the Yankee Cap, and yes, Tom Cruise is a big Yankee fan, but why would 'Jack' (Cruise) wear it.? He did not know it was something special to him? They also never explained why they used him as a clone and what happened to the Original 'Jack' and his partner 'Victoria'? 5: Not enough action. The only reasons to watch is the playing of Led Zeppelin, and Olga Kurylenko ('Julia') who is hot to say the least. Basically an epic fail. 2 Stars.