Jack of Harts

I just watched Oblivion today. I know it’s fashionable to dislike Tom Cruise, but I can’t think of a single movie I’ve seen him in and not liked. I can now count Oblivion in that number. It starts several decades after a war with aliens. We kicked their asses, and took out most of the Earth while doing it. Mister Cruise plays a technician cleaning up the mess we left behind when the rest of humanity moved to Titan. Kinda like Wall-e, only with a lot more gunfire. Seems some of the aliens went feral on the Earth and are messing up our mopping up routine. Our protagonist’s job is to keep repairing the defense drones protecting humanity’s last remaining installations on Earth. They aliens keep taking them down, you see. There’s a lot more to the story, but that’s the fifteen-minute intro in a few sentences. The story keeps one engaged all the way through to the end. It was a thoroughly enjoyable movie to watch with some good special effects, some fun fighting scenes, and some good male-oriented romance. A bit of kissing and such mixed into numerous rounds of kicking alien ass, you know. All in all, a fun movie and I’m glad I picked it up. I watched it on a tablet via Vudu, with a nice speaker bar attached for better boom booms. Flawless experience except for the latency issues of watching over the networks that sometimes happens. Gonna try to the download and watch method next time. Gotta use that 64 gig SD card for something, you know…