Oblivion

2013 124 min ★ 6.7 Action, Science Fiction, Adventure, Mystery

Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. His existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands.

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Cast

Tom Cruise

Jack

Morgan Freeman

Beech

Olga Kurylenko

Julia

Andrea Riseborough

Victoria

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Sykes

Melissa Leo

Sally

Zoë Bell

Kara

Abigail Lowe

Julia's Child

Isabelle Lowe

Julia's Child

Booch O'Connell

Tourist (uncredited)

Details

Director

Joseph Kosinski

Screenplay

Karl Gajdusek

Tagline

"Earth is a memory worth fighting for."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$120,000,000

Revenue

$286,168,572

Production

Universal Pictures, Relativity Media, Monolith Pictures, Chernin Entertainment, Radical Studios, Anonymous Content

Reviews

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TheCakerBaker

July 3, 2013

★ 6.5/10

Completely unoriginal plot, brings nothing new to the table. Good cinematography by Claudio Miranda, Tom Cruise is horrendous.

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zerolimit

August 7, 2013

★ 2.5/10

This movie was a total waste! one of the weirdest movies. Not good at all would recommend you watch something better!

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Travis Bell

August 10, 2013

★ 6/10

Oblivion was definitely well made but the story seemed to just sputter out somewhere around 60 minutes in. I was completely engaged and interested as we learned about this repair crew who had the left overs of earth to themselves. They could have ran with that single idea for 2 hours and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have complained. All is not lost though, visually, Oblivion was a blast and M8...

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Peter McGinn

January 16, 2021

★ 10/10

I guess I am the rare viewer who enjoyed this movie. But I tend to cut some slack for sci-if movies. I don’t carefully parse out the special effects or pull out a book on physics to make sure every detail is kosher. As long as I am entertained, the plot doesn’t insult my intelligence, and the dialogue is realistic and if possible witty, I am in for the duration. Early in the movie I thought I ...

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Melander

February 12, 2022

Love this movie! There seams to be material for much more than just the one, but maybe it's just that feeling after a good movie that it ended too soon. I watch movies to be entertained, and I don't care too much about realism especially in SciFi movies, maybe that's why I enjoy watching Oblivion again and again.