In hindsight a very good film...

Rating: 8/10 (20 July 2015)

Oblivion is about Jack a drone repairman part of the 'mob up crew' after earths war with aliens 'Scavs' trying to get all drones up and working so they can join the rest of earth on one of Saturn's moons. After discovering a crashed spaceship the contents changes everything that Jack believed about the famous war and even himself.
This film was an odd one for me it wasn't terrible but it wasn't amazing ether. This film had some very strong elements to it. The cinematography is just outstandingly beautiful. I love a good landscape shot! The camera work on the smaller things like Jack fixing the drones was interesting too and really well done. The acting was of good quality across the rather small cast. Tom Cruise was excellent I felt he was a lot better in his more recent films like Edge of Tomorrow which I loved but he didn't do a bad job and think he gets a lot of unnecessary hate for his personal life/opinions and people put down his superb acting skills because of it. Morgan Freeman is a guest star too and dose a satisfactory job this is one of them Morgan Freeman roles that if I'm being honest anyone could play but after years of acting in some of the most famous films ever *cough* Shawshank Redemption *cough* he's earned the right to take it easy on acting front. The storyline is where it gets rather odd for me looking back after seeing it last night it was a rather simple story but watching it unfold I kept wondering how the whole story put together which was both a hindrance, of not 100% getting what was going on a lot of the time, and a help in the fact its not all ABC, dull, predictable, crud. The script was not notably good but it wasn't notably bad my favourite line was the end one ('F*** you Sally') I just did not expect him to swear maybe more of that when he was in danger and things to add to the realism of the whole scenario would of upped it a bit. On reflection this film was quite good and did the simple things to a very high standard, the cinematography in particular was outstanding, in hindsight the story is simple and interesting, think this will be worth a re-watch in the future.