Oblivion Reviews

It's exactly the sort of cheesy, awkward sci-fi junk Cruise's savior L. Ron Hubbard used to crank out before he ventured into the lucrative field of cult religion.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

Oblivion is too somber to cater in escapist thrills and too vacuous to offer emotional or intellectual engagement.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

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.

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A classic case of concept being better than execution.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion is far from original and instead acts as yet another genre rip-off that looks shiny and expensive, but is hollow and lifeless where it counts

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

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 | Original Score: 2.5/4

This visually beautiful film falters with a meandering plot.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10

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 | Original Score: 2.9/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 2.8/5

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 | Original Score: 2.5/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: .5/4

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 | Original Score: 2/5

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 | Original Score: 2/4

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 | Original Score: 2.5/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

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 | Original Score: 2/4

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5