Rendering 11

The article published on the website http://www.telegraph.co.uk/on 11 April 2013, is headlined “Oblivion, review”.  The author of the article is Tim Robey. The article reports us about  the new film with Tom Cruise.

The author gives us a detailed review, beginning from the summary of the film.  Earth, in the visually resplendent 2077 of Oblivion, is one abandoned battlefield – a windswept, ochre-grey desert from whose sands a few weathered and lonely relics protrude. There’s the crumbling amphitheatre of a football stadium, the forlorn spire of the Empire State Building. Oh, and Tom Cruise. Rendered all-but-uninhabitable after a Pyrrhic victory against alien invaders called Scavengers, it’s a planet which our entire race has essentially given up on, except Tom. He plays an ex-Marine commander called Jack Harper, whose Wall·E-esque job is to scoot around on a bubblecraft repairing drones, and fending off Scavenger attacks while the last of our geological resources are squeezed out. The rest of humanity is biding its time, wholly unseen, inside a vast upside-down triangle of a space station. Jack isn’t entirely on his own: he has a partner called Victoria, played by an eerily immaculate Andrea Riseborough, who co-ordinates his daily maintenance tasks from the top deck of their nifty minimalist command centre. The Frank Lloyd Wright sexiness of this thing – there’s even a glass-walled swimming pool for seductive night dips – looks to be a considerable perk if you’re considering a future career in post-apocalyptic mop-up. In general, the movie’s design is by far its biggest draw, but there’s only so long you can spend admiring snazzy reflections, perfectly harmonious colour balance and Riseborough’s naked rear before the mind starts to crave a more pressing agenda. Such was also the case with Tron: Legacy, the previous movie by whizzkid auteur Joseph Kosinski, which polished the hues and sounds of its environment so pristinely the banal storytelling seemed to clatter around inside. Daft Punk’s surging electro-geek score was an astonishment there; the one for this by M83 (aka Frenchman Anthony Gonzalez) is a paler imitation, but it still eggs the movie on to fulfil its promise and take us on a properly mind-bending ride.

As I could understand, the author was rather impressed by the film. But Personally I,  don’t share his point of view. Despite the fact that Tom Cruise is my favorite actor, I think that the film is too long and rather commonplace.