Oblivion

Oblivion 

Rating 4 out of 10

After watching the trailer for this movie I thought visually it looked amazing yet I still had no real idea what the movie was about.   Sadly I felt nearly the same way after leaving the theater after watching it.

In the beginning of the movie Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) tells us in a voice over that in the year 2077 Earth was attacked by aliens from another planet intending on taking over after their planet has played out.  Earthlings fight back with everything we have (nukes) and win the battle but lose the war.  Earth is now a radiated wasteland.  All living humans have been moved to a huge death star looking space ship leaving Jack and his partner to do mop up duty protecting these big generator things that are sucking the last of earths resources before everyone goes to the death star to live our their days.

Jacks job is to keep the drones running that protect the generators from small pockets of the aliens still left on earth.  His memory has been erased for a reason not fully explained.  He keeps having flashbacks to a time before the war and tries to make sense of it.

I looked at my watch and realized an hour and forty five minutes into the movie I had absolutely no clue what was going on.  This movie could have been better hand they explained what was going on much earlier in the movie and played the plot from there.  I was more frustrated and confused.

Rent this one if you must.  It's pretty to look at.  Not much fun to watch.