GERMAN FILM REVIEW OF OBLIVION UNINTENTIONALLY HILARIOUS ~ imagebyusing

Oblivion Tom Cruise Olga Kurylenko — Special technician Jack (Tom Cruise) and his partner Julia (Olga Kurylenko) in a scene from "Oblivion"
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Tom Cruise, a pure soul from space, pushing service on the abandoned, ausgepowerten, memorial empty earth in the apocalyptic spectacle "Oblivion". For the viewer, the film is a real bargain in a way.

Jan Füchtjohann

Again end. She looks beautiful this time: vast landscapes, mountains, a bit of snow, between a burned Stadium and picturesque spilled onto dry ships. The moon looks as if someone had kicked him in super slow motion through space, with a large dent and scattered everywhere, glowing in the night splinters. Otherwise it is silent, except for a couple of huge high-tech straws, the empty eyes of the sea. For energy, says a voice from the off.

Occurs Tom Cruise . Who's probably come up with the strange idea to occupy calculated Cruise as the last man? Just because the voices piling, who think he's the last, he is far from being a man. It is not only the Hollywood star has stopped about 15 years ago eerily to age, he is now also a "Operating Thetan VII," and thus, according to his UFO religion Scientology a pure soul from outer space that is different from their human shell , the "meat body", has largely freed.

In any case, Cruise tells the audience what happened: aliens . They attacked and destroyed the moon, after the earthquake and tsunami came. With the use of nuclear weapons, people could win the war just yet, but they have lost the earth.Everything is contaminated or broken, the population was evacuated to a space station and will now wait to be sent to some moon: new habitat. Meanwhile, the old earth passes on Cruise Control: Machine do the exploitation of resources, drones defend the machine against remaining aliens, and maintenance of the drones takes Jack Harper (Tom Cruise).

Absurd, but mercifully the designers incidence

This he lives with his always accurately trimmed girlfriend Victoria (Andrea Riseborough) in a kind of suburban house on steroids: a bungalow which floats on a long needle through the clouds, with sliding glass doors, a glass outdoor pool, extensive use of glass touchscreen and a walk-in shower of glass. So many windows, and unfortunately you have to peek: So then you have the dubious pleasure of Tom Cruise to be able to extensively watch as he sleeps, swims and lathered up.

Apart from the house of drones mechanic has also a jet helicopter combat UFO from glass Christmas tree balls and a white iMotorrad touch with speedometer.Great! Not so great, however, is that Victoria always nags about radio in his excursions to him and constantly giving instructions that it receives via Skype evil of a kind officer-in-law. But luckily, the Earth rotates, and thus the law is on their space station for half the day offline - an absurd, but mercifully incidence of designers.

Now, we actually still tell that Harper actually like all employees "truer" longs for a life in nature. And that just when he is in a meadow, the woman of his dreams (Olga Kurylenko), a spaceship crashes right into his arms. And that in the end, of course, everything is the other way around than I thought. But if you did, would probably fall quickly excited the word "spoiler".

"The Matrix" in 1999. And so on.

Here you can not really reveal too much, because all the elements a familiar anyway. The last one gives to the earth? It's Wall-e, the friendly little robot from the Pixarfilm of 2008. American civilization, lost and half buried? "Planet of the Apes" in 1968. A big revelation by a wise black rebel leader in a chair? "The Matrix" in 1999. And so on.

Perhaps that was one of the reasons why Tom Cruise interested in "Oblivion".The actor, who in the past year at the top of the Forbes list of "Most Powerful Actors in Hollywood was, "is finally told as a Scientologist. According to this religion people were originally only aliens that were taken 75 million years ago by the evil dictator Xenu in refrigerators on the earth, under the pretext that they would be there to undergo a tax audit. In fact, however, they were put into volcanoes and blown up with hydrogen bombs in the air. Electric traps caught their radioactive souls ("thetans"), which were then subjected minions of Xenu brainwashed, what they believed in such crazy stories like that of Jesus. To Scientologists, you now want to get rid of this brainwashing: other, "bad" thetans everywhere put a in the body, and finally from this body itself this you have to be in hundreds rather expensive "auditing" to the trauma from past life recall.

Works just as well as "Oblivion": It always remembers a loud things that one has experienced in recent space operas ever. Here's a piece from the science fiction movie, here's a piece from another, all from oblivion (English "oblivion") brought back to consciousness. As such, the film is a real bargain: a real "auditing" for just ten euros. A glass shower for your own thetan! In Scientology you get for so little money just a warm handshake.

As "Operating Thetan VII" is the way to be able to move things without touching them Tom Cruise. It can also affect humans and animals telepathically. That's really true: When he swings around on a motorbike in the film, pulls on his wraparound sunglasses and driving through the desert in an upright heroic, almost the whole cinema transmitted telepathically a medium intense feeling of embarrassment. Wow.

Oblivion, USA 2013 - Director: Joseph Kosinski. Book: Joseph Kosinski, Karl Gajdusek, Michael Arndt. Camera: Claudio Miranda. Editor: Richard Francis Bruce. With: Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Melissa Leo. Universal, 135 minutes.