WARNING : SPOILERS.
Hahaha.
Oblivion was mind-blowing really. According to IMDb it's the best Tom Cruise film since Mission Impossible 3 (2006) which earned $47millions; Oblivion took $71.9 million over its opening weekend.
I'll sum the whole movie up in a word : futuristic.
The movie takes place in 2077 and 60 years ago, which was 2017, human won the war with aliens (a.k.a scavs). Now, 60 years later, these scavs are planning for revenge, where Sally (Melissa Teo) communicates with the effective team, Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) and Victoria/Vika (Andrea Riseborough) on a project to evacuate essential elements; especially water to Tet, where they claim to be a place to sustain human lives. They're in the final weeks and they can return to Titan (where the human beings live because the Earth and moon were destroyed during the war) afterwards.
Victoria.
However, little did Jack know that he is one of the clones made to carry out this project; there are 1000 of them because Jack Harper was the best pilot. The main clone in the movie is known as Tech-49.
Part of Jack's memories haunts him; there's constantly a beautiful girl in his mind. Soon he learns that she's Julia (Olga Kurylenko) as he goes to a wreckage to save survivals from a spaceship - Odyssey. She remains as the only survival as the others were killed by drones. Vika is upset seeing Julia again. Jack is captured by scavs, and the leader Malcolm (Morgan Freeman) requests Jack to reprogram a drone to deliver a nuclear bomb to destroy Tet.
The truth reveals when Jack and Julia went to the observation deck of the partially destroyed Empire State Building. Julia showed Jack the engagement ring he gave to her and they embrace. It infuriates Vika and she decides to report that Jack and her are no longer an effective team. Sally activates a drone to kill Vika and commands Jack and Julia to be an effective team since then and return to Tet, but they flee instead.
Julia and Jack
Pursued by the drones, they were forced to enter radiation zone where they eventually crashed. Jack Harper met Tech-52 and takes his spaceship to return to his "tower" which is completed with clone of Vika.
The Tower where they live in.
Jack reprograms a furious drone and on his way to Tet with Malcolm, not Julia. Unfortunately, the drone is destroyed in chaos; Malcolm and Jack decide to send the bomb to Tet themselves.
Obviously, they were destroyed along with Tet tower.
3 years later, Tech-52 goes back to where Julia stays, as he says "He is me, I am him". Julia and Jack have a child dated back in 2017 but the hibernation in pod inhibited pregnancy so she gave birth as she returned Earth.
It's long and complicated storyline but it was worth the while. Many people dislike it because they don't understand, can't blame them. I was blur at first but that was what kept me awake in the theater to keep watching it. :)
I'll rate this movie 7/10 because it's the first movie I had the urge to write a review on and the story kept me awake the whole time (Well, I feel sleepy watching most of the movies in the theater). Although the plot is twisted and hard to understand, but the details of those futuristic vehicles deserve appreciation. :)
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