That, of course, is a big 'red flag' for the audience that all isn't as it appears to be – enhanced by the fact that Jack keeps having visions and dreams of a young woman (played by Olga Kurylenko), who will show up in Jack's life as the lone survivor of spacecraft crash. We also learn early on that Jack and Victoria had their memories wiped before they began their current assignment. Jack and Victoria's work is being monitored from a large spaceship in orbit known as the 'Tet', where they report daily to a superior named Sally (Melissa Leo). Most of surviving humanity have made their way to a new colony on Titan, a moon of Saturn, but Harper and his assistant Victoria (Andrea Riseborough) have been left behind to monitor the machinery that is collecting and transporting the last of Earth's resources to Titan, as well as keep up on making sure large, circular, and deadly drones are continuing to function.
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The movie is set roughly 75 years in Earth's future, after an alien attack has all but obliterated the planet (as Cruise's character, Jack Harper, tells viewers in a voice-over as the movie begins, humans have won the war, but they had to use nuclear weapons to do so). That gives 'Oblivion' the distinction of being perhaps the only movie based on a graphic novel that never actually existed. It was scheduled to come out in 2012 from Radical Studios, but Kosinski was pitching the idea as a movie when the book was still in development, and once the film got greenlit (thanks to illustrations for the book that were completed), the graphic novel idea was abandoned and all focus was put on the film.
Except Kosinski's graphic novel (illustrated by Andrée Wallin) was never actually released. 'Oblivion' was directed by Joseph Kosinski, and is based upon his graphic novel of the same name. Still, that doesn't take away from the fact that they're both well-crafted pieces of cinema. Sadly, both movies got slapped with titles that tell audiences little about the movie they're about to see, and both underperformed at the box office (although both did much better internationally than domestically). Both are entertaining works of storytelling in a climate where Hollywood is satisfied pumping money into reboots and sequels, and both films stay with you long after the end credits have rolled. Yet here we are, past the mid-point of the 2010s and two of the most inventive sci-fi films we've seen are Cruise's Edge of Tomorrow and this movie, 'Oblivion'. If you'd have told me at the beginning of 2010 that the most interesting science-fiction films of the coming decade would include two starring Tom Cruise, I would have laughed in your face.
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