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| Star Tom Cruise walks away from a bridge that has seen better days on this poster for Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion |
Repairman Jack Harper learns new things on the devastated Earth in the future.
Oblivion is written by Michael Arndt (Toy Story 3 (2010)) and Karl Gajdusek (Trespass (2011)), based on an unfinished graphic novel by Iowan master filmmaker, co-producer/director Joseph Kosinski (TRON: Legacy (2010)), whose 2nd feature it is.
The arguably worst Tom Cruise (Valkyrie (2008)) movie to date, Oblivion is a horrible, empty shell of non-characters, who move around in 'beautiful', expensive-looking shots without chemistry or anything meaningful to relay to us for a couple of hours. What the film really is about is just about impossible to decipher. What is discernible is that Oblivion made me feel like my brain was actively shrinking, while I saw it.
Morgan Freeman (Kiss the Girls (1997)) appears with gigantic, black goggles on, ensuring that the film gets the minimal amount of performance from the beloved actor. Oblivion is a sexualized, self-enamored ego-trip, that comes off as unsexy and irrelevant nonsense. Watch it and feel the sensation of growing into a black hole of annoyed indifference.
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Watch a trailer for the film here
Cost: 120 mil. $
Box office: 286.1 mil. $
= Minor flop (returned 2.38 times its cost)
[Oblivion premiered 26 March (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and runs 124 minutes. Jessica Chastain was cast in the female lead but was released from her contract in order to do Zero Dark Thirty. Shooting took place from March - July 2012 in Iceland, California, New York, Hawaii and in Louisiana, including in New Orleans. The film opened #1 to a 37 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it spent another 2 weekends in the top 5 (#2-#4), grossing 89.1 mil. $ (31.1 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were China with 23.8 mil. $ (8.3 %) and Russia with 19.1 mil. $ (6.7 %). Kosinski returned with The Dig (2017, short) and theatrically with Only the Brave (2017). Cruise returned in Edge of Tomorrow (2014). Oblivion is rotten at 54 % with a 5.90/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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