Burned over Earth

Rating: 5/10 (16 June 2013)

I see that a lot of folks are happy with Tom Cruise's latest film which is his first venture into the science fiction genre since his remake of War Of The Worlds. I have to confess I'm a minority here since the story left me with more questions than when I started.
As we learn from Tom's narration at the beginning he's a survivor from Earth after an alien invasion scorched the planet leaving unfit for human habitation. But we've managed by the time of the middle 20th century to reach Titan, the largest satellite of Saturn. That's where earth survivors have gone. The aliens also destroyed the moon which as we know has a great deal to do with our gravity as well as determining tides. The natural disasters resulting were just a prelude to the war that followed.
Cruise is a repair technician who fixes the drones that patrol the burned over Earth. Like most from Titan his memory has been wiped of times before. But those things that Sigmund Freud talked about, where the Krels created monsters from in Forbidden Planet, dreams in forbidden places bring up memories now that the Earth is a forbidden planet.
I watched Oblivion and quite frankly I thought the story and script were incoherent and the direction almost non-existent. I'm sure that the legion of fans Tom Cruise will go see it. That and all the scientologists in the world. I'm sure Tom saw some scientology doctrine in the story which must have been what attracted him to the film.