Leading film in the new sci-fi-fi genre

Rating: 6/10 (25 April 2013)

The quality of a sci-fi film is typically inversely correlated to the number of dark synthesiser stabs used. Oblivion almost succeeds in bucking this trend but then messes it up by borrowing too heavily from Wall-E,Moon and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The good parts of this film outweigh the corny but not by much. Tom Cruise is actually one of the saving graces of the film - his everyman vibe serves this sort of film well generally. Sadly the obvious borrowing of ideas from other well-known films undoes the potential this story had.
Note: we get to see what Catherine Zeta-Jones looked like 30 years ago so it's not all bad.