Oh dear Mr Cruise...

Rating: 3/10 (15 April 2013)

So let me start of by saying Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman and Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau are all actors I love seeing on screen. So when I look back on this movie I genuinely cannot tell as to why these three agreed to sign up to this pile of crap.
If you haven't seen this film yet and don't really know if you should or not - I'm going to make it easy for you: DON'T, like really don't - because afterwards in the car home you will be picking plot holes out with ease. The only people I'd recommend it to are die hard fans of Tom Cruise, and by that I mean REAL DIE HARD FANS because you're gonna need a bit more than loyalty to stomach the cheesy lines, obvious script and really bad flaws in this film. I wouldn't even say go see it if you're a fan of Morgan Freeman considering in this "masterpiece" he's in it for about 15 minutes. IF YOU DON'T WANT ANY SPOILERS DON'T READ FROM THIS POINT ONWARDS: So everyone let me draw your attention to the holes in this story:
1. Perhaps the biggest hole I've see in a pretty long time; The whole story revolves around this recording which has been beamed down to Earth and contains the original message of Tom Cruise's last mission into space... again let me say this part in particular "HAS BEEN BEAMED DOWN TO EARTH." So would anyone like to tell me why, when Tom listens to the recording, can he still hear himself and his co-pilot within the ship AFTER its been beamed to Earth... oh dear.
2. Futuristic robots are chasing Tom, and are being held back by extremely powerful lasers - which seemingly have no effect whatsoever, yet when Tom fires one bullet from his pistol it dies.
3. Tom and his co-pilot are living life in their futuristic house, swimming in their pool which can see underneath their futuristic house - yet NEVER do they think "hmmm we've lived here for 5 years and have never checked the basement, maybe there's something down there?"
4. Why can intelligent machines from the future pick up respiratory patters to tell if someone is lying, and detect all types of organisms, yet cannot distinguish between a man and a woman? Also they have incredible scanners which can up anything small and vaporise it - yet when hiding behind a waterfall these scanners apparently don't work anymore.
5. These bad robots, who also pretty much dominate the planet and can see everything from drones and from space, forbid any type of plant surviving - yet they cant see a massive expanse of rain forest plonked right in the middle of the planet?
6. Oh and apparently advanced robots can now be repaired with chewing gum.
To be honest those 6 are enough to say this movie was bad but there are also countless more which I can't even be bothered to talk about (E.G. how long does it take for a woman to die after she has been shot in the stomach, and is losing a lot of blood? Because now it seems like the amount of time it would take to start a spaceship, fly it a few hundred miles, grab some medical equipment, have a fight with a clone of yourself and then fly it back.
I gave this 3 out of 10 because of the 3 things which earned it: OK special effects, Morgan Freeman's voice and the "scav" helmets which made me laugh quite a lot in the cinema, even though they weren't supposed to.