Thursday, April 10, 2014

Film Review: Oblivion

We recently watched the dystopian Tom Cruise SciFi film Oblivion. The tech is wonderfully realized, lovingly filmed. The film doesn't do crowd scenes, much of the time there's no more than two people on-screen, and often only one.

The story is, in a word, complicated. I'll not spoil the plot twists for you with a story summary, except to say the story turns out to be about other than what you initially surmise it to concern. That is very much in the SciFi tradition.

In Oblivion Cruise does a good action hero turn, without overdoing it to the point of being a cartoonish superhero. The three women portraying his work-partner-with-benefits, his boss, and his love-from-a-former-life all are believable in their roles. Morgan Freeman plays an unusual-for-him role and does his usual good job. 

As a lifelong enjoyer of science fiction, I liked Oblivion. I'm not sure the other DrC would entirely agree.