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56% Oblivion $5.6M
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Oblivion Reviews

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John Beifuss
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.

Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | Original Score: 3/4

May 8, 2013
Katey Rich
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

Full Review Source: CinemaBlend.com | Original Score: 3/5

May 7, 2013
Tom Clift
Moviedex

An admirable failure; an overlong, awkwardly paced mishmash of cool but familiar ideas and all-too predictable plot-twists.

Full Review Source: Moviedex | Original Score: 3/5

May 3, 2013
James Kendrick
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

Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk | Original Score: 2.5/4

May 2, 2013
Matt Kelemen
AspectRatio.us

Unfortunately, when the story seems like an afterthought and the audience can't follow the plot progression, the movie ultimately fails

Full Review Source: AspectRatio.us | Original Score: 2.5/5

May 1, 2013
Anthony Lane
New Yorker
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Feels ever more grounded and stuck ...

Full Review Source: New Yorker

April 29, 2013
Pete Vonder Haar
Houston Press

"The dream is always the same."

Full Review Source: Houston Press | Original Score: 3/5

April 28, 2013
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy

People who need anything remotely resembling an emotional anchor in their movies had best look elsewhere.

Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | Original Score: 6/10

April 27, 2013
Robert Roten
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.

Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope | Original Score: B

April 27, 2013
Kelly Vance
East Bay Express

A giant IMAX screen makes a bad movie even worse.

Full Review Source: East Bay Express

April 27, 2013
Mark R. Leeper
Mark Leeper's Reviews

OBLIVION is a film with the look being a lot more satisfying than the thought.

Full Review Source: Mark Leeper's Reviews | Original Score: 6/10

April 27, 2013
Bob Grimm
Reno News and Review

Tom Cruise is CAPTAIN EO!

Full Review Source: Reno News and Review | Original Score: 2/5

April 26, 2013
Dave White
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...

Full Review Source: Movies.com | Original Score: 3/5

April 26, 2013
Neil Pond
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.

Full Review Source: American Profile | Original Score: 2.5/5

April 26, 2013
Lori Hoffman
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.

Full Review Source: Atlantic City Weekly | Original Score: 2.5/4

April 26, 2013
Jules Brenner
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.

Full Review Source: Cinema Signals | Original Score: 4/5

April 26, 2013
Ken Hanke
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.

Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | Original Score: 3/5

April 25, 2013
Jackie K. Cooper
jackiekcooper.com

Tom Cruise entertains in this intriguing sci-fi flick that is full of twists and turns.

Full Review Source: jackiekcooper.com | Original Score: 7/10

April 25, 2013
Cole Smithey
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.

Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | Original Score: C-

April 24, 2013
Rick Kisonak
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.

Full Review Source: Film Threat

April 24, 2013
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