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o ahead. Indulge in the very best movpartner — in work and love — is Victoria (Andrea ie promo tie-in ever: the Oblivion-branded Riseborough), and she’s been memory-wiped, Mandatory Memory Wipe, available too. Only two more weeks to go in their tour of at the concession stand with the popcorn and duty, and then it’s their turn to head out to the nachos. It’s so cool! Then you can walk into new paradise on Titan. Oblivion with no recollection of 2001: A Space If you believe that, I’ve got a bridge in Odyssey and Independence Day and 2012 and Mad Brooklyn — only slightly damaged by some miMax and Planet of the Apes and the entire history nor planetary crustal displacement — to sell you. of science fiction movies, and It’s possible that director Joseph hence you’ll enjoy yourself Kosinski instead imagined he was OBLIVION ever so much more. shooting a commercial for Ikea Rated PG-13 And you get to be like Tom Directed by Joseph Kosinski 2077, but that’s cool, too. You Cruise! Because a “Mandatory Starring Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman will drool over the glossy domesMemory Wipe” is exactly what tic techno-porn that is Jack and his Jack Harper has undergone. Victoria’s cushy post-apocalypse It’s a security thing, you see, in case he gets caplifestyle. The film on the whole is far more visutured by the alien Scavengers still scurrying ally intriguing than Kosinski’s debut, the dreadaround on planet Earth, still hanging out even fully ugly Tron: Legacy. The imagery of the though they lost the war with humans. (You’d destroyed Moon — which ostensibly caused the think they’d take a hint and go home, but no.) geological upheaval that did much of the damage The Scavs are intent on causing trouble, and on Earth — is shocking like a train wreck, a colosit’s Jack’s job, as a sort of roving Maytag repairsal cracked egg in the sky now trailing rings of man, to keep in the air the fleet of drone weapdebris, but also beautiful in a horrific way. ons that are protecting, from Scav attack, the Don’t expect to be surprised by the plot or ginormous fusion-reactor thingies that are turncharacters, which are so derivative not only of ing Earth’s oceans into a power source for Titan, classic sci-fi films and little cult favorites — many a moon of Saturn, to which the human surviof which will have been seen only by the geekiest vors of the war have decamped, what with Earth of geeks — but also of recent big-budget blockreduced to a radioactive wasteland and all. Jack’s busters.
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