Good but a borderline copy of an indie movie from 2009

Rating: 6/10 (28 April 2013)

**THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SERIOUS SPOILERS- Be Warned** So, if you haven't seen the movie Moon, then Oblivion is an 8 because it's a cool idea- a guy is being cloned and used to work in industry...ultimately finding out he's a clone and his life and the job that he's doing are not what they appeared to be, and so he rebels against those using him as a clone. So....I hate to break it to you guys, but this MOVIE WAS DONE, and it was done better on a smaller budget only 4 years ago. Go rent Moon. Sure this movie changes some stuff around to make it "original" but the general concept is basically an identical steal (i.e. cloned worker finding out he's a clone, his work is BS, and rebelling against the higher power).
Other than that there are a few miner gripes: lack of character development for earth colony, lack of explanation for why this alien organization/colony is doing this to the earth, and some of the story lines are completely far fetched and don't make any sense...for example, Tom Cruise's character ejects his fellow astronauts from an ejection hatch in his space ship before he's captured and cloned.....one of those he ejected was his wife....So 60 years later Tom Cruise's clone finds his wife in a time capsule that just entered the earth's atmosphere? HUH?!?!? What a frigging coincidence, and it took 60 years for an ejection pod to make it from a space ship to the earth? Something is off.
Other than the inconsistencies in the movie, lack of story explanation, and totally plot stealing, the movie is interesting and kept me entertained. I would have liked this a lot more if I didn't predict and know everything that was going to happen before it happened simply because it was a plot line RIP JOB. If you are going to rip/steal a plot this closely at least WAIT like 20 years to flip stuff around and make it seem original. Don't do it from a movie only 4 years ago!!!! Come on.