Oblivion

I was pleasantly surprised when I watched Oblivion as I was flying at 35,000 ft above the southwest heading to Las Vegas where I caught my flight to Seattle. I am so tired of modern sci-fi movies because they are the same as those in the past with added spectacular computer graphics. Oblivion is a really good film with really decent acting. It stars  Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, and Andrea Riseborough. So what is the story?

In Oblivion we are taken to 2077 where an alien race, known as The Scavengers, have traveled across space, destroyed the moon and attacked Earth. The humans won the ensuing war, but the cost was so great that the planet was left all-but-uninhabitable, with survivors all being sent to live on Saturn’s moon Titan.

The journey across the solar system is powered by huge generators, sucking up energy from Earth’s oceans. They’re protected from the Scavengers by dozens of drones and a team of two, Jack (Cruise) and Victoria (Riseborough) are coming to the end of their stint down on Earth to keep an eye on the drones and fix them when they break.

But when a spacecraft crashes down in a nearby location, specified by a transmission he believes came from the Scavengers, Jack starts to question everything around him, why he’s there and who he’s working for.

I think this a good movie which I highly recommend. You will have many questions after watching this one.