Rent Oblivion (2013)
3.4 of 5 from 688 ratings
1h 59min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Tom Cruise stars as Jack Harper, the lone security repairman stationed on a desolate, nearly-ruined future Earth. When he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft, her arrival triggers a non-stop chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows, and leaves humanity's fate in his hands.
- Actors:
- Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Andrea Riseborough, Olga Kurylenko, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Melissa Leo, Zoë Bell, Abigail Lowe, Isabelle Lowe, John L. Armijo, Fileena Bahris, Joanne Bahris, Andrew Breland, Z. Dieterich, Paul Gunawan, Julie Hardin, Sebastian James, Ryan Chase Lee, Jaylen Moore, Booch O'Connell
- Directors:
- Joseph Kosinski
- Producers:
- Peter Chernin, Dylan Clark, Duncan Henderson, Joseph Kosinski, Barry Levine
- Writers:
- Karl Gajdusek, Michael Arndt, Joseph Kosinski
- Studio:
- Universal Pictures
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Collections:
- 2013, CinemaParadiso.co.uk Through Time
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 19/08/2013
- Run Time:
- 125 minutes
- Languages:
- English Audio Description DTS 2.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1, French DTS-HD High Resolution 7.1, Italian DTS-HD High Resolution 7.1, Spanish DTS 5.1
- Subtitles:
- Arabic, Danish, Dutch, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, French, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.40:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Deleted Scenes
- Promise of a New World: The Making of Oblivion
- M83 Isolated Score
- Feature Commentary with Tom Cruise and Director and Story Writer Joseph Kosinski
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 20/02/2017
- Run Time:
- 125 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Atmos, French DTS 5.1, German DTS-HD High Resolution 7.1, Japanese DTS 5.1
- Subtitles:
- Danish, Dutch, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, French, German, Japanese, Norwegian, Swedish
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.40:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
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Reviews (4) of Oblivion
It's a post apocalyptic earth after an alien invasion. Only Tom Cruise can save the world (again). - Oblivion review by RP
It's a post apocalyptic earth after an alien invasion. Only Tom Cruise can save the world (again). Err, that's it.
I've recently seen Tom Cruise in 'Edge of Tomorrow' and now here I am watching him in another sci-fi film and (of course) Mr Cruise yet again takes it on his shoulders to Save The World.
The film is - as perhaps we should expect these days - visually spectacular, but humans are a bit thin on the ground and the film is essentially a two-hander with Tom Cruise doing the action things and a well-groomed, very English Andrea Riseborough staying home in her tower and telling him what to do.
That is until the sleep/crew module from an old spaceship crashes, Tom rescues one survivor and begins to doubt who and what he is. There's also a bit part for a criminally underused Morgan Freeman.
Tom Cruise isn't one of my favourite actors. The roles he chooses are often too goody-goody, too good looking, too straight - and in this film, even in the supposedly romantic moments, too wooden.
The film is very derivative and reminded me very much of 'Moon'. The 'twist', such as it is, is obvious and easily guessed. The film is derived from a graphic novel (a posh name for a comic book) by director Joseph Kosinski. It's 2 hours long, slow to get going, it's quite pretty to look at - but it's stodgy stuff.
After seeing Mr Cruise in 'Edge of Tomorrow' which has more action, more aliens - indeed more people - and which I quite enjoyed, I found this very average indeed. On that basis I might have given it 3 stars, but unfortunately the 'twist' is so obvious that I'm going to mark it down to 2/5 stars.
3 out of 4 members found this review helpful.
Keep watching - it gets better - Oblivion review by AB
As said, Tom Cruise seems to do the sci-fi stuff more and more these days and this was better than most films that he is in (cf the rubbish that is Mission Impossible in all its guises)
The storyline was not bad and had me guessing a bit for a long time.
I basically liked the story and the soundtrack for the end-credits and main theme is fantastic
1 out of 1 members found this review helpful.
Sexist drivel - Oblivion review by CP Customer
We didn't last the first hour of this film - we kept hoping one of the creatures lurking in the caves would kill Tom Cruise horribly and do us all a favour. What on earth you need three inch heels and false eye lashes for when manning a space station is the big question. Women have rarely been portrayed in quite such a facile way in film since the 1950s.
0 out of 6 members found this review helpful.
Critic review
Oblivion review by Alyse Garner - Cinema Paradiso
Oblivion doesn't take much time to be amazed by, at least visually, as it it directed by Joseph Kosinski, the director of Tron Legacy, a visually beautiful film that unfortunately didn't live up to its, well, legacy.
Oblivion however learns from Tron Legacy's mistakes as Oblivion has a wealth of emotion to it that Tron lacked. The film tells the story of drone repairman Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) and how his life is altered with the arrival of the mysterious Julia (Olga Kurylenko).
The film is facinating science fiction and has the imagination and visuals to back it up with every aspect of this films look having been crafted specifically to bring out a certain tone. Oblivion is ultimately a mystery film as Jack attempts to figure out how he figures into this world and who he is as a person. Cruise is dynamic as the inquisitive repairman and the script really puts a lot of detail into this hero but it is a film where almost every other character is paper thin with very few characteristics and almost no personality.
Despite the film’s small cast it still doesn't quite know what to do with most of them. While Julia acts as the catalyst for the movie, her importance to the film beyond that is limited because she is badly written and performed by Kurylenko. In fact the only fleshed out figures are Jack and his assistant Victoria (Andrea Riseborough), a naïve but tough woman who is Jack’s only real companion. This core relationship makes up most of the run time and the chemistry between the two of them is excellent even as the two come to disagree about Julia's mysterious arrival. Oblivion tells a well crafted story and has a strong central cast even though their characters have very little to them but that shouldn't stop you because it's a film that strives to be amazing, it may not be quite up there but I'd rather watch a film that tries than one that doesn't even make an effort.