Oblivion
Oblivion takes place in the year 2077, on an Earth which has been destroyed by war with extra-terrestrials that has caused humanity to relocate itself to a space statin called Titan (well, this is what you’re told at the beginning).
The film follows the story of Jack Harper, Sixty years after a race of extra-terrestrial scavengers destroyed the Moon and invaded Earth. Humanity won the war, but nuclear weapons and the loss of the Moon left most of the Earth uninhabitable. Jack is a technician who has been sent back to Earth to service drones used in the fight against remaining scavenging extra-terrestrials.
The story takes a turn when Jack rescues a survivor after witnessing a spacecraft crash, and he finds a woman which he has been seeing in his recurring dreams, this starts to make him question the reality he lives in and recognise that not all is as it seems.
Jack is then eventually captured by what he thought were scavengers, only to learn the truth of what is going on, and the fact that he is being used by extra-terrestrials who have cloned him, to wipe out the last of the surviving human race, who in reality lost the war.
I have to say that I personally enjoyed the film to a certain extent, and if you have watched a few other complex dystopian films, then you may find it slightly predictable.
The one thing the film captures very well is its scenery, the picture it displays of a destroyed earth looks very realistic and high quality. If I was judging this film based on the quality of the scenery, then I would regard this film higher than a lot of other post-apocalyptic films, but unfortunately I am not reviewing this film based on its art.
Overall, the film was relatively average in terms of its storyline, and there was nothing that really surprised me from the story at least not until the end, and even then, the story was slightly underwhelming. The story also had quite a happy ending, which is not something that I necessary look for in dystopian films.
Even with one of my favourite actors (Morgan Freeman, the film was underwhelming, but this mainly being down to its mediocre storyline. I would still say that the film is worth a watch if you haven’t seen it, as I would always encourage people to form their own opinions.