Oblivion, Tom Cruise's Boring Movie
Am I a big fan of the Mission Impossible sequels or is it that Tom Cruise always makes the same surprised and happy faces in all of his movies? Also, has Tom Cruise believed his hero role too much?
With undoubtedly spectacular photography, Oblivion (Joseph
Kosinski, 2013) aims to bring us closer to a new cosmic experience in the
world of special effects, and yet it ends up being a boring and fanciful
story in which special effects are relegated to a second flat.
Oblivion tells us about a distant future in which Cruise seems to be the only inhabitant (among the few inhabitants that live in the world), who wants to return to the past and makes us understand the importance of keeping many of the things that we still have left now, thanks to the fact that the world we live in is not yet computerized and technology has not 100% invaded all the things around us (although time as well as at the speed we are going, it will not have much left to look like the one in the movie).
Over the years, Tom Cruise has become a benchmark in
action cinema and he owes everything to the success of the many parts of
Mission Impossible (Brian De Palma, 1996) that have led him to shoot other
films in the same genre such as Jack Reacher ( Christopher McQuarrie, 2012),
The War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg, 2005) or The Last Samurai (Edward
Zwick, 2003), which continue to grow in prominence and fame in the world of
special effects and action.
The problem is that not all have been good choices by the actor. Although the various sequels to Mission Impossible continue to entertain the viewer (the sixth part of the saga will be released next year), films like Oblivion show that this futuristic drama with a boring and unsubstantiated narration cannot survive on its good works alone. special effects and the presence of Cruise himself.
Although we must not forget Morgan Freeman, whose career also seems to be
plummeting in recent years with films like Objective The White House
(Antoine Fuqua, 2013), Lucy (Luc Besson, 2014), Ted 2 (Seth MacFarlane,
2015) , or Oblivion itself, what's next, Freeman?
