Entertaining & Predictable

Rating: 6/10 (28 January 2014)

This movie is a bright Sci-Fi with great visuals, I loved the design of pretty much everything is very balanced and doesn't suffer from the over-designed syndrome that most Sci-Fi movies do, so as the battles on the movie, easy to watch, didn't tire me.
The soundtrack is perfect but needed some variety because the constant epicness saturates the tension that music could add in particular scenes.
Now about the story it is also simple but not so balanced. The first half of the movie is quite slow while in the other half we get some basic info about the past from the underdeveloped surviver human characters no images about how those people live they are just a background crowd for Morgan Freeman...
I guess the writers wanted to give more attention on the love story but still this is not strong enough, generally the movie's picks & revelations are nothing we have never seen before so gets a bit predictable and flat as a whole.
It is a shame because this ends up to be just a sci-fi movie with Tom Cruise on it. He doesn't give us something new as a performer while a less known actor could make the movie fresher (also the role feels like it was made for a younger actor) the two very young female characters just emphasize this need. The C.Zeta-Jones clone gives a robot performance while Andrea Riseborough looks like she is the only one trying to give something more to her role. Tom Cruise & Morgan Freeman give a "no need for effort" performance. For a humans VS robots movie I would expect to see more passion from the humans.
In conclusion Oblivion is entertaining visually, quite easy to watch and predictable. I feel like the director could give more with a more worked story and better actors. But I'm afraid they just wanted to make a commercial movie and not a movie to remember...