Oblivion

Oblivion 

Of course Tom Cruise graces effective advertising every poster, but the main man behind "Oblivion" is for once not the megastar, but his director: The sci-fi blockbuster is primarily a Joseph Kosinski film and as such instantly recognizable after its 400-million-dollar worldwide hit "Tron: Legacy". served the former engineering and architecture student in "Oblivion" again immaculately-effective future designs from fully automatic cloud home to practical folding bike - based on these designs would be the bosses of vehicle manufacturers and communication companies (yes, even from Apple) licking your fingers. This quest for perfection is reflected in Kosinski's staging resist, which is why the film sometimes seems a bit clinical and cold. With some unexpected twists and his glorious sound design, "Oblivion" turns out however nevertheless as a pioneering study of the future and fascinating cinematic experience.

Oblivion 

In the year 2077 the Earth is in ruins. A war against alien invaders has indeed won mankind, but the Blue Planet (and the moon!) There were completely destroyed. While the majority of the population now lives in a colony in space, the art expert Jack Harper (Tom Cruise, "Mission: Impossible"), and his partner Victoria (Andrea Riseborough, "All we had to give") on a futuristic Cloud Home remained of the earth to ensure trouble-free removal of the most vital of all resources: water! ("Quantum of Solace James Bond 007" Olga Kurylenko) in a space capsule from the sky, which turns everything to their very existence into question what Jack believed ever know ... but then suddenly drops a beautiful woman named Julia

Oblivion 

Joseph Kosinski has written the plot as a twelve-page short story eight years ago - and because he then assumed that "Oblivion" his first film project might be, he sat much aware of a number of small to (for example, he was limited to a few characters) . Following the success of "Tron: Legacy" and the signature of Tom Cruise's box but suddenly a lot more money to spend - and although the budget of an estimated $ 120 million for visually stunning panoramas of the ruined earth's surface was quite well spent, is "Oblivion" in the core is still an intimate four-person units (with Jack, Julia, Victoria and Melissa Leo as Sally, who issued a video chat spooky polite instructions from space). A chamber play with blockbuster budget and excursions in Bubbleship, a mini spacecraft with the shape of a soap bubble: These seemingly contradictory elements are brought together in "Oblivion" on atmospheric surprisingly coherent manner.

Oblivion 

In "Oblivion" is not the played "Blue Danube Waltz", but parallels to "2001 - A Space Odyssey," there is still Kosinski wants Stanley Kubrick obviously quite anticipate with his futuristic concepts like once the actual future -., And it is at its chic-functional design very well imagine that one can ascribe to him in 50 years, a similar visionary gift as today its famous predecessor., and infamous with Kubrick's perfectionism keeps the former commercial director (including those for Nike, "Halo 3" and "Gears of War. ") Kosinski with each setting affects how licked particularly impressive here is that the transition between vehicles and people in the foreground and the computer-designed backgrounds of the destroyed planet's probably never been so seamlessly and naturally succeeded as in" Oblivion "- and since you would not like to forgo such sharpness and clarity, it was also the gold right decision and, contrary to the movie "Tron: Legacy" not to shoot in 3D, and not to convert it later.

Oblivion 

The stars Tom Cruise and Olga Kurylenko are similar to flawless as the designs around them - even broken noses are make-them in perfect symmetry. So that their characters are missing but literally the corners and edges, rather tenterhooks is not announced. Acting highlights, however, put the two actresses from the second row: Andrea Riseborough as desperately to their ignorance clinging Victoria and Melissa Leo (Oscar for "The Fighter") as opaque Skype chat boss spread with her robot-like sense of duty, a subtly frightening mood. (we want more than the name is not revealed at this point) The role of Morgan Freeman as Beech, however, is hardly larger than an extended cameo - the falls with the black sunglasses and casual in his mouth hanging cigar but at least damn cool!

Conclusion: "Tron: Legacy" mastermind Joseph Kosinski served with his second film "Oblivion" again a unique visionary, even if sometimes slightly supercooled noise design.

Oblivion