Review: Tom Cruise's 'Oblivion' a Sci-Fi Adventure to Remember

LOS ANGELES TIMES
By Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times Film Critic

HOLLYWOOD---"Oblivion" will make you remember, not forget. This Tom Cruise vehicle is a throwback to the days when on-screen science fiction was about speculative ideas rather than selling toys to tots — think of it as the most expensive episode of "The Twilight Zone" ever made. "Oblivion" is not perfect. Its dystopian story makes no apologies for its familiarity, echoing such films as "The Planet of the Apes," "The Matrix," "2001" and even "Wall-E." And expecting the wheels not to eventually begin to fall off its pleasantly complicated, head-spinning plot (based on the director Joseph Kosinski's graphic novel) is asking a little too much. But even given all this implausibility, "Oblivion" has the ability to haunt you visually and, with an unanticipated love story, even emotionally. [link] (A&O Rating: ★★★)

The new Roger Ebert's gave it just 2 of 5 stars ★★