Oblivion: True Alien Lies
Well, if it were not called Oblivion already then calling it True Alien Lies would not be such a bad title, not for this movie at least.
The story begins in the year 2077 a future where mankind has mostly abandoned Earth and is moving to Titan, a moon around Jupiter. The reason is that our own Moon had been destroyed by an alien race called The Scavs (Scavengers). such event caused in response a series of catastrophes that decimated Earth poputation drastically. Later on the survivors faced the aliens who in great number descended on the surface. In a desperate attempt not to lose this war Earth remaining forces had fought back and used atomic weapons apparently ending the alien threat but at the cost of destroying most of the planet surface in the process.
That had happened sixty years earlier. Now there was only an immense space station orbiting the Earth called the Tet. The station had as sole purpose to coordinate the final efforts to absorb the remaining resources that the planet still had, mainly ocean water, by using enormous machines that were in turn safeguarded by robot drones, each one a perfect killing machine that exist because there are still Scavs who have not stopped fighting. Since these were mostly machines there were two human beings assigned with the task to make sure the machines kept working properly. One of the two humans was Tech 49 Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) and the other was Victoria (Andrea Riseborough), his partner in this assignment. They live alone in a tower where they are to stay until the day all the resources have been completely absorbed and mankind can start a new life in Titan.
But Jack feels something is terribly wrong. He has these recurring memories in which he sees himself walking in the New York before the invasion, and there is a woman he has never seen before and yet she means the world to him. Days later a mysterious ship falls from space and crashes. Jack manages to save one of the crew and that is precisely the woman in his dreams. These events and previous ones lead Jack to question everyhting that he knows and he believes in. The truth behind Jack's real identity, that of the woman of his dreams and also Victoria's are key to understand what has been happening. The only thing that Jack can have for certain is that literally nothing is what it seems to be becauand the acting is good though the ships and their weapons all seem a bit cartoonish. And then there is the villain, one that to be fully understood needs a precedent and that is in another movie, one called Space Odyssey 2001. When you see Oblivion you will find it is full of nods to other great Sci-Fi movies plus also the reason why I call it True America Lies"
Perhaps one too many.
So four stars out of five for this one.
The story begins in the year 2077 a future where mankind has mostly abandoned Earth and is moving to Titan, a moon around Jupiter. The reason is that our own Moon had been destroyed by an alien race called The Scavs (Scavengers). such event caused in response a series of catastrophes that decimated Earth poputation drastically. Later on the survivors faced the aliens who in great number descended on the surface. In a desperate attempt not to lose this war Earth remaining forces had fought back and used atomic weapons apparently ending the alien threat but at the cost of destroying most of the planet surface in the process.
That had happened sixty years earlier. Now there was only an immense space station orbiting the Earth called the Tet. The station had as sole purpose to coordinate the final efforts to absorb the remaining resources that the planet still had, mainly ocean water, by using enormous machines that were in turn safeguarded by robot drones, each one a perfect killing machine that exist because there are still Scavs who have not stopped fighting. Since these were mostly machines there were two human beings assigned with the task to make sure the machines kept working properly. One of the two humans was Tech 49 Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) and the other was Victoria (Andrea Riseborough), his partner in this assignment. They live alone in a tower where they are to stay until the day all the resources have been completely absorbed and mankind can start a new life in Titan.
But Jack feels something is terribly wrong. He has these recurring memories in which he sees himself walking in the New York before the invasion, and there is a woman he has never seen before and yet she means the world to him. Days later a mysterious ship falls from space and crashes. Jack manages to save one of the crew and that is precisely the woman in his dreams. These events and previous ones lead Jack to question everyhting that he knows and he believes in. The truth behind Jack's real identity, that of the woman of his dreams and also Victoria's are key to understand what has been happening. The only thing that Jack can have for certain is that literally nothing is what it seems to be becauand the acting is good though the ships and their weapons all seem a bit cartoonish. And then there is the villain, one that to be fully understood needs a precedent and that is in another movie, one called Space Odyssey 2001. When you see Oblivion you will find it is full of nods to other great Sci-Fi movies plus also the reason why I call it True America Lies"
Perhaps one too many.
So four stars out of five for this one.
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