Moon starring Tom Cruise

Rating: 5/10 (3 May 2013)

Oblivion is not at all original. If that were the only bad things about it, the film would still succeed at being entertaining. But it continues to stumble in several areas:

The trailer is so misleading that it may as well have been for an entirely different film. - Technology in Oblivion is beyond anything we have right now, but for some reason an omnipotent artificial intelligence cannot manage to send clear transmissions to its servants on the Earth. - HAL was a character of 2001: A Space Odyssey, not a 2013 film starring Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman. - I got tired of the idea behind Oblivion halfway and just started hoping it would end. - As always, the enemies (this time drones) are incapable of shooting down a ship flown by a man, but somehow they can annihilate hundreds of humans in seconds. Also, they sound a lot like Tie Fighters. - Only Jack Harper knows this: there's actually a lush green portion of Earth which the AI didn't see, even though its main goal was to turn the Earth's water supply into energy using a series of fancy towers. - There are thousands of drones in the mothership, yet all the AI manages to send to attack the rebels three. After that it has to start thinking again. - With all the fancy DNA technology, how did the AI not know Morgan Freeman was aboard the ship Harper flew in? How did it not detect a massive nuclear bomb? Was it too busy concentrating on opening the pod bay doors? - M83's soundtrack began a lot like Hans Zimmer's Dark Knight Rises and ended up being too noisy. - The moon is destroyed. Wow, just like in Time Machine.

In the end, Oblivion is a spectacle from the director of Tron: Legacy. It's his second film and it's obvious that the guy needs practice. The whole experience of watching this Tom Cruise flick makes one feel inferior. The story never gets the redeeming end it deserves.
Sorry, Kosinski. I can't do that.