Oblivion (2013 film)

Oblivion

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Joseph Kosinski
Produced by
  • Joseph Kosinski
  • Peter Chernin
  • Dylan Clark
  • Barry Levine
  • Duncan Henderson
Screenplay by
Based on Oblivion 
by Joseph Kosinski
Starring
Music by M83
Cinematography Claudio Miranda
Edited by Richard Francis-Bruce
Production
company
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release dates
  • March 26, 2013 (2013-03-26) (Buenos Aires premiere)
  • April 19, 2013 (2013-04-19) (United States)
Running time
 124 minutes[1]
Country United States[2][3]
Language English
Budget $120 million[4]
Box office $286.2 million[5]

Oblivion is a 2013 post-apocalyptic science fiction film based on Joseph Kosinski's unpublished graphic novel of the same name. The film was co-written, produced and directed by Kosinski.[6][7][8] It stars Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Andrea Riseborough, and Olga Kurylenko.[9][10] The film was released in the U.S. on April 19, 2013.[11] According to Kosinski, Oblivion pays homage to science fiction films of the 1970s.[12]

Oblivion received mixed reviews. The acting, especially Cruise's performance, the originality, the visual style and effects were heavily praised, while reception of the plot was mixed. Reviewers criticized the film's incorporation of elements from other sci-fi films and what Rotten Tomatoes called a "thinly scripted" story. However, it was a commercial success, grossing more than $286 million worldwide against a $120 million budget.

Plot

In 2077, the Earth has been devastated by war with an extraterrestrial invader, the Scavengers (Scavs). Humanity is relocating to Saturn's moon Titan via the Tet, a large, tetrahedral space station. Gigantic offshore fusion energy generators drain the oceans to produce power for the colonists on Titan.

Stationed at Tower 49, Tech 49 Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) and his teammate and lover Victoria "Vika" Olsen (Andrea Riseborough) are among the few humans left on Earth. Instructed by mission controller Sally (Melissa Leo) and assisted by drones, they protect the generators from attack by any remaining Scavs. Despite having had a memory wipe, Jack experiences visions of being on the observation deck of the Empire State Building with an unknown woman before the war.

Jack investigates the site where a module from a pre-invasion human spacecraft, the Odyssey, has crashed. He finds several working stasis ("Δ-Sleep") chambers containing surviving humans in a hibernative state; including one that contains the woman from his visions, Julia (Olga Kurylenko). A drone arrives and begins to destroy the stasis chambers. Jack saves Julia, but the drone kills the remaining survivors. Later, Jack and Julia return to retrieve the flight recorder and are captured by Scavs. The Scavs turn out to be human survivors, not aliens. Their leader Malcolm Beech (Morgan Freeman) wants Jack's help to destroy the Tet by reprogramming a captured drone that contains ten stolen fuel cells attached to a nuclear device. He tries to convince Jack that everything he knows is a lie, but Jack does not believe him; Beech releases them, saying the truth can be found in one of the forbidden radiation zones.

On route back to Tower 49, Jack and Julia go to the Empire State Building where Julia tells Jack that she is his wife. Their team, which included Vika, was heading towards Titan when they encountered the Tet, an alien ship, and was diverted to investigate it. Since she was in stasis, she doesn't know what happened after they left. They fly back to Tower 49 but Vika, monitoring their movements, refuses entry and reports to Sally that she and Jack are not "an effective team". Sally activates a disabled drone hidden inside the tower that kills Vika but is destroyed by Julia. Jack and Julia escape with the other drones in pursuit. Jack's ship is damaged and they eject in the forbidden zone, which they determine is not actually radioactive. They encounter Tech 52 Jack, an exact clone of Jack, and during a scuffle Julia is inadvertently shot. Seeing Julia, Tech 52 Jack falters and experiences the same visions Tech 49 Jack experienced. After incapacitating and tying up Jack 52, Tech 49 Jack flies to Tower 52, finding a Vika clone there. He obtains medical supplies and returns to treat the wounded Julia.

After an evening at the lake-house Jack built, the two return to the Scavs. Beech reveals that the Tet is the hostile alien force, mining the Earth's resources while eliminating humanity. In 2017, the Tet arrived in orbit and destroyed the Moon, to devastate and disorient the human population. Massive earthquakes and tsunamis then destroyed most major cities, and millions more starved to death in the chaos. Soon afterwards the Tet landed waves of troopships, containing thousands of Jack clones programmed purely to kill. After the surviving humans were reduced to only a handful, about 50 years ago the Tet moved on to its second phase, using massive water-pump machines to suck Earth's oceans dry for fuel, guarded by patrol drones which were serviced and maintained by a new generation of Jack and Victoria clones. "Sally" is just a computer-generated image that the Tet uses to communicate with these ground crews, based on the head of the original Odyssey mission's ground crew. However, after seeing the way Tech 49 Jack acted, Beech realized that the original Jack Harper still existed in this clone and saw hope of bringing him back to help them.

Tracking Jack's biometric readings, the Tet sends drones to breach the complex, which Jack helps the others defend. Beech is gravely injured and the captured drone is damaged beyond repair. The humans try to regroup but fear an imminent attack. At Julia's suggestion, Jack communicates with the Tet via Sally, agreeing to turn over Julia to her. The Tet wants Julia because it believes that, as Jack's wife, a new set of clones based on her will make a more effective team than the Jack and Vika clones. After saying goodbye and placing Julia in a stasis chamber, Jack flies to the Tet while listening to the Odyssey's flight recorder and learning the fate of its commander, astronaut Jack Harper: he, Vika and Julia were crew members aboard the Odyssey, which was originally an exploration mission to Titan. The mission was re-routed by the real Sally at mission control to investigate the Tet, then near Saturn's orbit and therefore close to the original trajectory. Originally appearing inactive, the Tet began to pull the spacecraft towards it. Sensing danger, Jack jettisoned the sleep module, an emergency escape pod programmed to orbit Earth, to save the crew members in stasis. Jack and Vika were then captured by the Tet.

While entering the Tet, escorted by two drones, Jack glides past thousands of pods containing Jack and Vika clones. Upon final interrogation, he tells a doubting Sally he believes this is the only way Julia will survive and is granted access into the Tet's main control center. Now deep inside the Tet, Jack unloads and opens the sleep chamber which surprisingly contains Beech and a fuel cell bomb. They trigger the bomb, destroying the Tet and shutting down the attacking drones before they reach the human base, with Tech 49 Jack and Beech being killed in the process. On Earth, Julia awakens from the stasis chamber at the lake-house in time to see the Tet destroyed. Three years later, Julia and her young daughter are living in the lake-house. Members of the human resistance arrive across the lake from the house and Jack Harper 52 emerges from the crowd smiling at Julia.

Cast

Production

Development

Shot of the Bubble Ship from the 2013 movie Oblivion.
The Bubble Ship seen in the film (above) was inspired by the Bell 47 helicopter (below).
Shot of a Bell 47 helicopter

Kosinski wanted to film a cinematic adaptation of the graphic novel Oblivion, which he started to co-write with Arvid Nelson for Radical Comics. The novel, however, was never finished, as Koskinski now admits that "It was just a stage in the project [of film development]". He explained in an interview with Empire that "partnership with Radical Comics allowed me to continue working on the story by developing a series of images and continuing to refine the story more over a period of years. Then I basically used all that development as a pitch kit to the studio. So even though we really never released it as an illustrated novel the story is being told as a film, which was always the intention."[13][14] Walt Disney Pictures, which produced Kosinski's previous direction Tron: Legacy, acquired the film adaptation rights to Oblivion in August 2010 after a heated auction.[15] Disney subsequently released the rights after realizing the PG-rated film they envisioned, in line with their family-oriented reputation, would require too many story changes. Universal Pictures, which had also bid for the original rights, then bought them from Kosinski and Radical Comics and authorized a PG-13 film version.[4]

The script for the film was originally written by Kosinski and William Monahan and underwent a first rewrite by Karl Gajdusek.[16] When the film passed into Universal's hands, a final rewrite was done by Michael Arndt.[17] Universal was particularly appreciative of the script, saying "It's one of the most beautiful scripts we’ve ever come across."[18]

The Bubble Ship operated by Cruise's main character, Jack 49, was inspired by the Bell 47 helicopter (often colloquially referred to as a "bubble cockpit" helicopter), a utilitarian 1947 vehicle with a transparent round canopy that Kosinski saw in the lobby of the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan, and which he likened to a dragonfly. Daniel Simon, who previously worked with Kosinski as the lead vehicle designer on Tron: Legacy, was tasked with creating the Bubble Ship from this basis, incorporating elements evocative of an advanced fighter jet with the Bell 47 to create a light, functional vehicle that was both practical and aesthetically pleasing, much as he observed with the ships in 2001: A Space Odyssey. "When Kubrick made 2001, rather than going to the hotshot concept designers of the day, he hired NASA engineers," said Simon. "I believe in form follows function. I'm not a fan of excessive decoration, of putting fins on something because it looks cool." Rather than employ digital models, Wild Factory, a Camarillo concept car company, built the Bubble Ship as a 25-foot-long (7.6 m), 4,000–5,000 lb (1,800–2,300 kg), mostly aluminum prop. Elements of the cockpit, such as the placement of the joystick and pedals, were customized for Cruise, who is a pilot in real life, and who had some input into the design. The craft was also made to be easy to disassemble and assemble, in order to facilitate transport to the Iceland shooting locations, where it would be mounted on a gimbal for shots of it flying. The unmanned aerial drones that figure prominently in the plot were created to appear to be in the same design family as the Bubble Ship.[19]

Casting

Tom Cruise had expressed interest in the film for a considerable period of time, and officially committed to it on May 20, 2011.[20]

For casting the lead role of Julia opposite Cruise, the producers considered five actresses: Jessica Chastain, Olivia Wilde, Brit Marling, Noomi Rapace and Olga Kurylenko, and all five auditioned on August 27, 2011.[21] It was subsequently announced that Chastain would play one of the film's two female leads. In January 2012 Chastain entered into talks for a part in the Kathryn Bigelow film Zero Dark Thirty and subsequently dropped out of Oblivion contention. It was later announced that the role had been given to Kurylenko.[22] In preparation for the role, Kurylenko watched astronaut training videos as well as classic science fiction and romance films (such as Solaris, Notorious, and Casablanca).[23] "What's funny is I actually watched Solaris; Joseph never brought it up," said Kurylenko. "I come from Tarkovsky-land, and at that point I hadn't watched it for many years. I watched the new one as well, with George Clooney and Natascha McElhone. The story – both in Solaris and Oblivion – deals with space and memory."[24]

For the other leading role, Victoria, the producers initially considered Hayley Atwell, Diane Kruger and Kate Beckinsale. The three actresses traveled to Pittsburgh to screen-test with Cruise, who was filming Jack Reacher.[25] The role finally went to Andrea Riseborough. Melissa Leo was cast at a later date as Sally.[26]

Filming

Production began on March 12, 2012, and concluded on July 14, 2012. Filming locations included Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana.[27][28][29] Out of approximately three months of shooting, 69 days were shot in Louisiana, from March through May 2012, 11 days were shot in New York in June 2012, a few in Mammoth in California in June 2012, and 10 days were filmed in Iceland in June 2012,[30] when the daylight lasts for nearly 24 hours a day. As well as showcasing Iceland's volcanic landscapes, the film's director Joseph Kosinski sought to take advantage of the round-the-clock light, in particular the 6pm to 1am waning light known as "magic hour", to "bring sci-fi out into the daylight", in contrast to films such as Alien, which spent their time in dark hulls or benighted planets.[19][31] The single most difficult scene to film in the entire movie was when Harper takes a break to admire the view and waters a flower; it was filmed by having Cruise sit next to an 800-foot (250 meters) drop at the top of Iceland's Jarlhettur on the root of Langjökull, a peak that the crew nicknamed Earl's Peak, which is accessible only by helicopter.[32] The scenes set at Harper's idyllic forest retreat were filmed at Black's Pond in June Lake, California.[33]

Oblivion was filmed with Sony's CineAlta F65 camera, which was shipped in January 2012.[34] A Red Epic was also used for scenes that required going handheld or when body mount rigging was applied.[35] The film was shot in 4K resolution in Sony's proprietary raw image format, but for cost reasons (and over Kosinski's protests), both the digital intermediate and final version were done at 2K resolution.[36]

For the Sky Tower set (built on a soundstage in Baton Rouge), Kosinski and cinematographer Claudio Miranda worked closely with visual special-effects house Pixomondo to establish both environment and lighting by the use of 21 front-screen projectors aimed at a huge wraparound backdrop to form one continuous image, rather than blue screen backdrops.[37] The backdrop consisted of a single seamless piece of painted white muslin, 500 feet by 42 feet (150 by 13 meters), which was wrapped around the set for 270-degree coverage.[36] This enabled the full environment to be captured in camera, and assisted in lighting up to 90 percent of the set.[35] If they had used blue screen on a "glass house" set like the Sky Tower, the glass would literally have disappeared into the blue lighting, and the VFX people would have been forced to reconstruct most of the set in post-production.[36] Naturally, "the actors loved being in it" since unlike blue screen, they could look outside and actually see a sunrise or sunset.[36] This new technique allowed them to cut down on both the effects shots, which ended up at around 800 in total, and the expenses. Even the "control table" which Victoria operates was filmed then displayed on a large screen.[38]

To obtain the necessary footage to create the illusion that the Sky Tower set was sitting high above the clouds, Pixomondo sent a crew to film the view from the peak of Haleakalā in Hawaii for four days with three Red Epic cameras mounted side-by-side on a single rig.[37] Pixomondo's Stuttgart office then stitched together the data from the three cameras to form a single gigantic video stream (with each still image consisting of 26 megapixels), and produced a variety of different time-of-day clips to be projected on the set.[37]

While filming in Iceland, Tom Cruise' then wife Katie Holmes surprised him by filing for divorce.[39]

Music

On June 28, 2012, it was announced that French electronic band M83 would compose the soundtrack for Oblivion.[40] On why he chose M83 to score the film, director Joseph Kosinski said, "I went back and I found my first treatment for Oblivion from 2005 and it had listed in the treatment a soundtrack of M83. Obviously the Tron: Legacy collaboration with Daft Punk worked out as good as I would have ever hoped, [so] I wanted to do something similar in that I’m pulling an artist from outside the movie business to create an original sound for this film." Kosinski continued, "Daft Punk’s music wouldn’t make sense for this movie. It had to be an artist whose music fit the themes and story I was trying to tell. And M83’s music I felt was fresh and original, and big and epic, but at the same time emotional and this is a very emotional film and it felt like a good fit."[41]

To guide Anthony Gonzalez of M83 through the scoring process, director Kosinski brought in Joseph Trapanese, who co-wrote the score alongside Gonzalez. Kosinski states, "Together they have created the score that I have dreamed about since I first put this story down on paper eight years ago."[42] Trapanese first came to Kosinski's attention when he collaborated with Daft Punk on Tron: Legacy as arranger and orchestrator.[43]

In an interview with Rolling Stone, M83 frontman Anthony Gonzalez said, "I started to write the soundtrack just reading the script, and then when you get the picture in, it's different, and you kind of switch to another vibe and change stuff and start experimenting a lot with the music." Gonzalez added, "I worked with Joseph a lot, and he's very particular about the music in his movies, so we spent a lot of time talking about music and working the arrangements together."[44]

Oblivion: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by M83
Released April 9, 2013 (2013-04-09)[45]
Recorded 2013
Genre
Length 69:06 (standard edition)
113:36 (deluxe edition)
Label Back Lot Music
Producer
M83 chronology
Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
(2011)		 Oblivion
(2013)		 Junk
(2016)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic55/100[46]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[47]
Consequence of Sound[48]
Digital Spy[49]
Filmtracks.com[50]
Pitchfork Media(4.5/10)[51]
Under the Radar[52]

The soundtrack album was released on April 9, 2013 by Back Lot Music.[45] A deluxe edition of the soundtrack was released the same day exclusively through iTunes. It features an additional 13 tracks.[53]

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Jack's Dream"   1:22
2. "Waking Up"   4:09
3. "Tech 49"   5:58
4. "StarWaves"   3:41
5. "Odyssey Rescue"   4:08
6. "Earth 2077"   2:22
7. "Losing Control"   3:56
8. "Canyon Battle"   5:57
9. "Radiation Zone"   4:11
10. "You Can't Save Her"   4:56
11. "Raven Rock"   4:33
12. "I'm Sending You Away"   5:38
13. "Ashes of Our Fathers"   3:30
14. "Temple of Our Gods"   3:14
15. "Fearful Odds"   3:09
16. "Undimmed by Time, Unbound by Death"   2:26
17. "Oblivion" (featuring Susanne Sundfør) 5:56
Total length:
 69:06

Distribution

Marketing

Details about Oblivion were kept secret, though the studio was said to have been "very excited" about the film. Promotions began April 2012, with a part of the footage being screened at the 2012 CinemaCon despite the fact that filming had begun just one month prior to the event. The footage was described as "a combination of early concept art, rough animation, and unfinished dailies," showcasing a glimpse of the film's landscapes.[18]

Theatrical release

Oblivion was first presented in Buenos Aires on March 26, 2013, Dublin on April 3, and in Hollywood on April 10 at the Dolby Theatre where Cruise himself announced before the screening that the film was actually the first feature to be mixed completely "from start to finish" in the latest state-of-the-art Dolby Atmos surround sound.[54]

Home media

The DVD and Blu-ray for Oblivion became available online for pre-order in North America on April 24, 2013, just five days after its initial release in the region.[55] One month later it was announced that the United Kingdom branch of Universal Studios would be releasing the film on home video in its region on August 6, 2013 with the on-demand version on August 18, 2013. The release is scheduled to be in both a standard and a SteelBook Limited Edition form.[56] In June 2013, it was announced that the film would be released on home video in America also on August 6, 2013. The Blu-ray releases will feature commentary with Tom Cruise and director Joseph Kosinski, deleted scenes, M83's isolated score, and a series of making-of featurettes.[57] The Blu-ray debuted at number 1 in sales for its opening week.[58]

Reception

Box office

In North America, the film earned $37.1 million on its opening weekend, including $5.5 million from IMAX screenings in 323 theaters, making it Cruise's best North American opening after Mission: Impossible film series and War of the Worlds.[59]

The film closed on June 27, 2013. Oblivion grossed $89,107,235 in the U.S. and $197,061,337 internationally, bringing the worldwide total to $286,168,572.[5]

Critical response

Oblivion received mixed reviews. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 54% based on 228 reviews, with the site's consensus stating "Visually striking but thinly scripted, Oblivion benefits greatly from its strong production values and an excellent performance from Tom Cruise." The film has an average score of 5.9/10.[60] Metacritic gives the film a score of 54 out of 100 based on 41 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[61]

Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter stated "Oblivion is an absolutely gorgeous film dramatically caught between its aspirations for poetic romanticism and the demands of heavy sci-fi action".[62] Justin Chang of Variety said "Insofar as Oblivion is first and foremost a visual experience, a movie to be seen rather than a puzzle to be deciphered, its chief pleasures are essentially spoiler-proof."[63] Kevin Harley of Total Film gave the film three stars and said "It isn’t a reboot or reimagining, refreshingly, but Oblivion plays like a stylised remix of superior sci-fi ground-breakers".[64] Andrew O'Hehir of Salon.com praised it as a "...sly, surprising and visually magnificent Tom Cruise vehicle that has forced me - and many other people, I suspect - to revise my first opinion of director Joseph Kosinski."[65] Tasha Robinson from the AV Club states that an "...unsettling sense of not-quite-right coats all of the film's steely surfaces, and Kosinski and his co-writers give audiences plenty of time to absorb the unease and gear up for the action."[65] Some reviewers noted the filmmakers' ambition. James Berardinelli of ReelViews calls the film "...imperfect but some of its imperfections result from being overly ambitious." [65] Bill Goodykoontz from the Arizona Republic states that the film "...may not live up fully to its grand ambitions, but it isn't for lack of trying."[65] Jake Coyle of the Associated Press states that "...[f]or those who enjoy the simple thrill of handsomely stylized image-making, Oblivion is mostly mesmerizing." [65] Alan Scherstuhl from the Village Voice states that "... Kosinski proves himself talented in ways his Tron: Legacy didn't suggest."[65]

Kenneth Turan from the Los Angeles Times called the film "[m]ore adventurous than your typical Hollywood tent pole, "Oblivion" makes you remember why science fiction movies pulled you in way back when and didn't let you go."[65] Michael O'Sullivan of the Washington Post states that "...[i]f you're able to forgive and forget, Oblivion isn't a bad place to start loving Tom Cruise all over again." [65] Steven Rea of the Philadelphia Inquirer states that "[Cruise] oversees some pretty impressive stuff here, from the drones that ping-pong around in the air to the bubbleship that Jack uses to go to and fro to that awesome house with its panoramic views." [65] Peter Howell of the Toronto Star states that the film "...gives us stars in the cast, stars in our eyes and it even tweaks a brain cell or three."[65] Colin Covert from the Minneapolis Star Tribune states that the "....film is rife with elements from its finest predecessors - Kubrick, Lucas, the Wachowskis and Pixar could be listed as creative consultants - but it has the spirit of a love letter to classic sci-fi, not an opportunistic mash-up." [65] Cary Darling of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram states that the film is "stitched together from spare bits of other, often better films, stumbl[ing] awkwardly in story and plot, shuffling toward the predictable explosions and fireballs of the third act. Yet...Oblivion is so beautiful to look at." [65]

Richard Corliss of TIME stated that "[i]n space, Jack [Harper] hopes, someone may hear you dream. But in a movie theater, no one will see you yawn." [65] Anthony Lane of New Yorker states that the film "[f]eels ever more grounded and stuck."[65] Richard Roeper of Richard Roeper.com called it the "...sci-fi movie equivalent of a pretty damn good cover band." [65] Tom Charity of CNN.com called it "[g]lossy, derivative, ambitious and fatally underpowered."[65] J. R. Jones of the Chicago Reader states that the "...story eventually devolves into a grab bag of sci-fi tropes but, as with so many other Cruise productions, the sheer scale of everything is so mind-numbing that you may not notice." [65] Rick Groen of Canada's Globe and Mail called it "...an okay blockbuster, a multimillion-dollar exercise in competence." [65] Tom Long of the Detroit News states that "Kosinski offers plenty of action here, and he lets the plot reveals bleed out slowly (explanations keep coming right to the end)." Long states that "...a great deal is derivative, but it's fast-moving derivative."[65] Stephen Whitty of the Newark Star-Ledger states that the movie "...combines a lot of different films, yet somehow remains less than the sum of its parts." [65] Claudia Puig of USA Today states that "...Kosinski focuses on cool visuals but stints on a compelling plot. It's a dazzler, but the story lacks the impact of the futuristic look." [65] Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal states that the "... mystery posed by "Oblivion" as a whole is why its mysteries are posed so clumsily, and worked out so murkily."[65]

Manohla Dargis of the New York Times states that the "...agony of being a longtime Tom Cruise fan has always been a burden, but now it's just, well, dispiriting." [65] Rafer Guzman of Newsday states that "[p]laying spot-the-influence is the most fun you'll have during this expensive-looking, slow-moving plod through familiar territory." [65] Joe Williams of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch states that "...[i]nstead of developing characters, Kosinski pours most of his imagination into the annihilated landscapes and futuristic gadgetry." [65] Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune states that "[w]hen you go to a futuristic, dystopian, post-apocalyptic barn dance starring Tom Cruise and his space guns, you expect a little zap with your thoughtful pauses."[65] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone calls it "...arid and antiseptic, untouched by human hands." [65] Rene Rodriguez of the Miami Herald states that the "...filmmakers don't even have the courage to see the story to its proper end, opting for a ridiculous finale that feels vaguely insulting."[65] Soren Anderson from the Seattle Times states that "[y]ou start wondering whether director Joseph Kosinski and screenwriters Karl Gajdusek and Michael DeBruyn have any original ideas of their own. And then you realize they don't."[65] Randy Myers of the San Jose Mercury News states that the "...mix of gee-whiz gadgetry and the day-to-day routineness of Jack and Victoria's lives is interesting enough, but the film is too glacially paced for it to work."[65] Chris Nashawaty of Entertainment Weekly states that "...[a]ll the eye candy in the world can't mask the sensation that you've seen this all before...and done better. Too bad the movie's script wasn't given the same attention as its sleek, brave-new-world look."[65]

See also

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