Oblivion (2013)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 124m
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Cast: Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough
Synopsis:
The year is 2077: a former astronaut carries out maintenance on drones patrolling the surface of the Earth, while massive turbines extract fusion energy from the planet's seas after a battle with an alien intelligence has rendered it uninhabitable. When a decades old NASA module responds to a homing beacon, it hints at truths that cause him to question everything he has been told.
Review:
Engaging, reasonably gripping science fiction, the first of a mini-rash of movies about the aftermath of planetary devastation, and only then if you don't count Cloud Atlas, which had such a segment. It's all been done before in different movies, of course, such as Moon; the memory thing in Memento; the book in The Book of Eli (here Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome), but it makes for a satisfying realignment here, based on the director's own graphic novel. It's a designer's wet dream, with the flying machine, mothership (or 'Tent') and drone pods all representing inspired pieces of production design, and Cruise is perfect casting for this sort of thing.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 124m
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Cast: Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough
Synopsis:
The year is 2077: a former astronaut carries out maintenance on drones patrolling the surface of the Earth, while massive turbines extract fusion energy from the planet's seas after a battle with an alien intelligence has rendered it uninhabitable. When a decades old NASA module responds to a homing beacon, it hints at truths that cause him to question everything he has been told.
Review:
Engaging, reasonably gripping science fiction, the first of a mini-rash of movies about the aftermath of planetary devastation, and only then if you don't count Cloud Atlas, which had such a segment. It's all been done before in different movies, of course, such as Moon; the memory thing in Memento; the book in The Book of Eli (here Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome), but it makes for a satisfying realignment here, based on the director's own graphic novel. It's a designer's wet dream, with the flying machine, mothership (or 'Tent') and drone pods all representing inspired pieces of production design, and Cruise is perfect casting for this sort of thing.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 124m
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Cast: Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough
Synopsis:
The year is 2077: a former astronaut carries out maintenance on drones patrolling the surface of the Earth, while massive turbines extract fusion energy from the planet's seas after a battle with an alien intelligence has rendered it uninhabitable. When a decades old NASA module responds to a homing beacon, it hints at truths that cause him to question everything he has been told.
Review:
Engaging, reasonably gripping science fiction, the first of a mini-rash of movies about the aftermath of planetary devastation, and only then if you don't count Cloud Atlas, which had such a segment. It's all been done before in different movies, of course, such as Moon; the memory thing in Memento; the book in The Book of Eli (here Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome), but it makes for a satisfying realignment here, based on the director's own graphic novel. It's a designer's wet dream, with the flying machine, mothership (or 'Tent') and drone pods all representing inspired pieces of production design, and Cruise is perfect casting for this sort of thing.