Tom Cruise in Oblivion
Watched Tom Cruise in Oblivion last night. It also had Morgan Freeman, didn't recognize the other actors, so thinking Cruise and Freeman were the biggest 'names' in it. Basic plot = Aliens attacked Earth in the near future. Earth won but devastated the world during the war. Humans built a space station to help in transporting humans to Titan, Saturn's biggest moon. Tom Cruise and a woman are tasked with maintaining some machinery which converts/transports water to Titan (i think).
It started off REALLY slow. I was a bit confused and I'm an action movies and science fiction movies fan. So I was giving this a way longer window than other types of slow starting movies. Others may have already left the movie.
Missed 30 mins during what was probably the start of the exposition - a buddy called. This may have been good for me, as it renewed my curiosity when I got back.
There was one hand-to-hand fight around the middle of the movie. I was looking forward to the fight as I've heard prior to my viewing of the movie that Tom Cruise was teamed up with the same choreographer as his past few movies which featured Keysi Fighting Method (first seen onscreen in Batman Begins). I'm not a Keysi practitioner, but some of the fights in Cruise's prior movie, Jack Reacher, looked cool onscreen.
There may be 2 or 3 plot twists depending on how astute/critical/sharp the viewer is.
I liked the 2-3 plot twists and the latter part of the movie. The beginning was THAT slow! Can imagine others not liking those parts.
You can probably pass on this movie but if you watched this, hope the payoff in the last half of the movie will be satisfying for you. Don't know how critics rated this movie, but i can see if they panned it. I think for the smart viewers, they can predict the ending and see the plot twists coming.
Anyone else watched this? Yea or nay?
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