Movie of the Week: Oblivion
Apr. 12th, 2013 05:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jaceyWhat can I say? Certainly worth the ticket price. Tom Cruise is Tom Cruise, and if you like what he does that's recommendation enough. (I swear he's got a picture in the attic!) The script is decent, the twists and surprises wholly satisfying, (I certainly didn't see them coming), but I'm not giving them away.
To begin with, then:
Earth has been damaged beyond repair and the survivors of an alien war are on their way to Titan, or on the space-station waiting to go. They are harvesting Earth's water to take with them. Jack is number 49, a maintenance engineer looking after the droids who protect and maintain the water harvesters. He's partnered with Victoria, living in comfort in their tower home above a ruined landscape. They both had an obligatory mind-wipe before starting this tour of duty, something which does not seem to surprise or upset either of them.
But it all starts to fall apart when a battered human spacecraft falls out of the sky and Jack rescues Julia who has been in stasis sleep for the best part of sixty years. She recognises him, but how can that be, he wasn't even born then? More worrying, however, is that he recognises her from his dreams.
When Jack discovers a group of human survivors led by Morgan Freeman and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister in Game of Thrones) everything he knows about who he is and what he's doing is challenged. If I say more than that and there would be too many spoilers. Just go and see it.
To begin with, then:
Earth has been damaged beyond repair and the survivors of an alien war are on their way to Titan, or on the space-station waiting to go. They are harvesting Earth's water to take with them. Jack is number 49, a maintenance engineer looking after the droids who protect and maintain the water harvesters. He's partnered with Victoria, living in comfort in their tower home above a ruined landscape. They both had an obligatory mind-wipe before starting this tour of duty, something which does not seem to surprise or upset either of them.
But it all starts to fall apart when a battered human spacecraft falls out of the sky and Jack rescues Julia who has been in stasis sleep for the best part of sixty years. She recognises him, but how can that be, he wasn't even born then? More worrying, however, is that he recognises her from his dreams.
When Jack discovers a group of human survivors led by Morgan Freeman and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister in Game of Thrones) everything he knows about who he is and what he's doing is challenged. If I say more than that and there would be too many spoilers. Just go and see it.
