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Oblivion Reviews

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Greg Evans
Bloomberg News

as Jack Harper, Cruise, at his wrinkle-free handsomest, fits perfectly into Kosinski's worlds -- both the soulless universe of 2077 and the emotionally beige movie of 2013.

Full Review Source: Bloomberg News

April 18, 2013
Jeff Beck
Examiner.com

This is one that we'll basically have to write off as a missed opportunity. It looks great and is mildly interesting at times, but in the end, there's just not much that's particularly memorable here.

Full Review Source: Examiner.com | Original Score: 2.5/4

April 18, 2013
William Bibbiani
CraveOnline

Cobbled from so many familiar sci-fi classics that every single plot point is clearly visible from a mile away.

Full Review Source: CraveOnline | Original Score: 4/10

April 17, 2013
Mark Ellis
Schmoes Know

It's a noble attempt to focus on a love story within a blockbuster sci-fi summer movie; it's too bad that love cost us the chance to have a fun ride into the future.

Full Review Source: Schmoes Know | Original Score: 2.9/5

April 19, 2013
Kristian Harloff
Schmoes Know

It's a shame the story can't live up to the incredible visuals.

Full Review Source: Schmoes Know | Original Score: 2.8/5

April 19, 2013
Cameron Williams
The Popcorn Junkie

A great introduction to the sci-fi genre if you've been living in a nuclear fallout shelter since the 1950s. For those more familiar with the genre, it's an elaborate sci-fi theme park ride

Full Review Source: The Popcorn Junkie | Original Score: 2.5/5

April 11, 2013
Calum Marsh
Slant Magazine

Absent of any sense of self-awareness, Oblivion seems only self-serious, a ponderous mess both misguided and unaware.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Original Score: .5/4

April 18, 2013
Guy Lodge
Time Out
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Kosinski continues to lavish far more thought on how his elaborate fantasy worlds look than how they work, and neither the politics nor the human stakes here coalesce into rational or relatable drama.

Full Review Source: Time Out | Original Score: 2/5

April 10, 2013
Soren Anderson
Seattle Times
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You start wondering whether director Joseph Kosinski and screenwriters Karl Gajdusek and Michael DeBruyn have any original ideas of their own. And then you realize they don't.

Full Review Source: Seattle Times | Original Score: 2/4

April 18, 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
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
Shaun Munro
What Culture

Oblivion is one of the best-looking bad films ever made.

Full Review Source: What Culture | Original Score: 2/5

April 10, 2013
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Chicago Sun-Times
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If nothing else, "Oblivion" will go down in film history as the movie where Tom Cruise pilots a white, sperm-shaped craft into a giant space uterus.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Original Score: 2/4

April 21, 2013
Siobhan Synnot
Scotsman

For all its dystopian sweep and moody posturing, Oblivion is too underpowered and underwritten to linger for long in the memory.

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

April 15, 2013
David Sexton
This is London

Although the film is derivative and predictable, it nonetheless makes no sense whatsoever in the end.

Full Review Source: This is London | Original Score: 2/5

April 12, 2013
Devin Faraci
Badass Digest

Like Tron Legacy, Oblivion is a beautiful, tedious, stupid movie that is an actual chore to endure.

Full Review Source: Badass Digest

April 18, 2013
Alonso Duralde
The Wrap
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If the dialogue and the concepts of Oblivion had been as fresh and powerful as its art direction, we'd really have something here. Instead, it's something borrowed packaged inside something new.

Full Review Source: The Wrap

April 16, 2013
Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune
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When you go to a futuristic, dystopian, post-apocalyptic barn dance starring Tom Cruise and his space guns, you expect a little zap with your thoughtful pauses.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | Original Score: 2/4

April 18, 2013
Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal
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The mystery posed by "Oblivion" as a whole is why its mysteries are posed so clumsily, and worked out so murkily.

Full Review Source: Wall Street Journal

April 18, 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
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