Oblivion Reviews
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
The action sequences are well-constructed, but forced: They're concessions to the marketplace, and they interfere with the movie's true interest in the routine rather than the extremes of postapocalyptic survival.
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| Original Score: 3/4
CinemaBlend.com
Large-scale, original sci-fi is a hard thing to come by these days, and despite its familiar story Oblivion does dream up some great ideas
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| Original Score: 3/5
Moviedex
An admirable failure; an overlong, awkwardly paced mishmash of cool but familiar ideas and all-too predictable plot-twists.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Q Network Film Desk
really no more derivative a science fiction thriller than most these days, it just has the unfortunate tendency of seeming to be more obvious about it
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
AspectRatio.us
Unfortunately, when the story seems like an afterthought and the audience can't follow the plot progression, the movie ultimately fails
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Top CriticFeels ever more grounded and stuck ...
Houston Press
"The dream is always the same."
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| Original Score: 3/5
Antagony & Ecstasy
People who need anything remotely resembling an emotional anchor in their movies had best look elsewhere.
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| Original Score: 6/10
Laramie Movie Scope
This big budget, epic science fiction film is engaging enough most of the way, although it does wander in the final act until it finally ends up where you thought it would after some plot twists that are mildly annoying.
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| Original Score: B
Mark Leeper's Reviews
OBLIVION is a film with the look being a lot more satisfying than the thought.
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| Original Score: 6/10
Reno News and Review
Tom Cruise is CAPTAIN EO!
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| Original Score: 2/5
Movies.com
Kosinki is no hack. He's made a gorgeous-looking experience, the kind they invented IMAX to accommodate. He's a pastiche artist, cribbing stylishness and building his own beautiful ice sculpture...
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| Original Score: 3/5
American Profile
The jam-packed storyline piles on themes and sci-fi clichés, pompously wraps them around an obscure Victorian era poem, then throws in an Andrew Wyeth painting for good cultural measure.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Atlantic City Weekly
While the visuals in Oblivion are superb, the plot wanders into more than a few "are you kidding me?" moments, in particular the timeline, which doesn't make much sense.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Cinema Signals
First and foremost designed as a platform for Cruise's physical skills. Which is not at all bad for us action fans and those of us who are suckers for concepts of advanced technology.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
That I didn't mind seeing it -- apart from finding the opening stretch on the tedious side -- isn't enough in my mind to warrant its reported $120 million price tag.
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| Original Score: 3/5
jackiekcooper.com
Tom Cruise entertains in this intriguing sci-fi flick that is full of twists and turns.
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| Original Score: 7/10
ColeSmithey.com
It's not like Tom Cruise hasn't made a great sci-fi movie in his career; "Minority Report" is a masterpiece. "Oblivion," on the other hand, is just what the title portends.
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| Original Score: C-
Film Threat
You know a picture's derivative when a list of titles in the same genre technically constitutes a spoiler. It's not so much that these films provide the picture's DNA as that Kosinski uses them as his personal cinematic ATM.
