Confused World....

Rating: 5/10 (13 April 2013)

OBLIVION is a sci-fi/thriller directed by Joseph Kosinski and starring Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman.
The movie revolves around Jack Harper (played by Tom Cruise) who is living with his colleague, Victoria. They are working under 'Tech Drone Maintenance'. The moon was attacked by a bunch of aliens, which caused the Earth to become vulnerable to tsunamis and earthquakes. After all the destruction, there was a war between the aliens and the humans. The humans won but due to the mass destruction to Earth, they were forced to vacate Earth and live on another Saturn-like planet called Titan. Jack and Victoria were the last people on Earth. Everything was pretty routine until Jack finds a survivor, who looks similar to this girl in his dreams. And then he is captured by a resistance group leader (played by Morgan Freeman), who forces him to realize that he has been living on lies... and that forms the rest of the movie
So when I first saw the trailer of this movie, I wasn't sure if it would be that grand, but when I saw Trailer #2, it totally changed my whole perspective of the film and I decided to watch it anyways. I went for the Friday late night show and just wanted to see a movie where the Earth looked different, with an amazing plot and Tom Cruise firing robot-looking aliens everywhere. When the movie started it had quite a boring tune... and as the film progressed it kind of went the same way as the beginning. There wasn't much action, in fact there were only 2 or 3 action scenes in the whole movie. At the end of the movie I didn't even understand what was going on. I just sat inside the cinema, waiting for my mind to indulge in some kind of action. When I exited the cinema, I went home and went on Wikipedia and just read the whole story to understand what was going on.
There were some parts which got me pretty hooked but other than that the movie is just a visual-effects fest. The writers were trying to go for a finesse story but I don't think they did a good job executing it well.
The only person who I felt did a really good job was Tom Cruise. I felt he played his emotions really well and his acting was quite good. The person who was SO underused was Morgan Freeman. He had NO role whatsoever. And whatever role he DID have, he was there in the movie for like 20 minutes... out of a 135 minute film.
If you are going for this movie just for the visual effects, I highly recommend watching this movie in IMAX. If you are going for this movie for action, don't see it. If you are going for Tom Cruise, MAYBE you will like this movie.
But overall, I feel this movie just robs you of your ticket money. You come to the ticket counter, so enthusiastic to see this movie and when the movie starts, it just robs you of that interest and by the end Oblivion just leaves you disappointed.