If you are a science fiction lover like me and added to it, a Tom
Cruise fan, then you will definitely have a fun ride into space. Director
Joseph Kosinski has also written the yet-to-be released graphic novel of the
same name.
Plot:
The movie zooms out to the year 2077 and a station on the earth’s
surface. Zoom in, and you find our superhero Jack Harper alias Tech 49 (Tom Cruise) with his female British assistant
Victoria (Andrea Riseborough) working
on the alien-struck Earth. Harper and Victoria have been assigned to fix
damaged, unmanned aerial vehicles that are meant to destroy the last aliens on
Earth, the Scavs. Both report to a remote station called the Tet, which is located in the orbit of
Earth. When they are repairing the space vehicle, a crash happens at the site.
When Cruise goes to investigate the crash, he finds a war-damaged space vehicle in which some humans are trapped. A typical Cruise flick, Sally (Melissa Leo), the head of his Earth station turns out to be the vamp, which had deployed spacecrafts to destroy the same space vehicle. In a dramatic rescue, he saves the humans trapped in the space vehicle. Julia (Olga Kurylenko) is one of the humans saved. Interestingly, he discovers that she is the same image that surfaces in his dreams. The trio, Harper, Victoria and Julia, probe the crashed spaceship’s sound records. They discover that the Scavs are a group of radical humans whose head is none other than Malcolm Beech (Morgan Freeman). Freeman explains that in the year 2017, Harper and Julia were married. Victoria and Harper were astronauts, while Julia was a scientist. They had been sent on a mission to explore Titan, the Saturn’s moon, when on the way back, they were captured and their clones were created to form an army by the Tet to destroy humans as well as take over Earth.
When Cruise goes to investigate the crash, he finds a war-damaged space vehicle in which some humans are trapped. A typical Cruise flick, Sally (Melissa Leo), the head of his Earth station turns out to be the vamp, which had deployed spacecrafts to destroy the same space vehicle. In a dramatic rescue, he saves the humans trapped in the space vehicle. Julia (Olga Kurylenko) is one of the humans saved. Interestingly, he discovers that she is the same image that surfaces in his dreams. The trio, Harper, Victoria and Julia, probe the crashed spaceship’s sound records. They discover that the Scavs are a group of radical humans whose head is none other than Malcolm Beech (Morgan Freeman). Freeman explains that in the year 2017, Harper and Julia were married. Victoria and Harper were astronauts, while Julia was a scientist. They had been sent on a mission to explore Titan, the Saturn’s moon, when on the way back, they were captured and their clones were created to form an army by the Tet to destroy humans as well as take over Earth.
When I walked into the hall, I got a complete dose of the human versus alien war. A warning: you might turn a wee bit patriotic after you finish watching the flick, especially after you watch your two favorite stars Morgan Freeman and Tom Cruise fighting the enemy together! While the former plays the chief of the last group of humans, the latter is one of the last men working for the space station on Earth’s orbit.
So, if you are the kind to strap yourself to the seat and keep moving till the edge until the movie gets over, biting your nails, then Oblivion is the one to satiate your space dreams.
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