Well, that was predictable. We really should’ve seen the signs with the new postersyesterday, building up to the arrival of a fresh trailer for Tom Cruise sci-fi pic Oblivion.
Joseph Kosinski’s film is set 60 years after humanity barely won a conflict with a nasty alien race. In the process of scraping a victory, the Earth was scorched and no human lives permanently on the surface.
But while the vast majority of the populace have relocated to giant orbital cities, someone still has to guard the world’s surface from scavengers, and that falls to people like Jack Harper (Cruise), a repairman who maintains the robotic defence drones.
Jack’s life is one of routine (as this trailer makes clear) and while he’s eager to join partner/lover Victoria (Andrea Riseborough) in a floating city once his tour is done, he has mixed feelings about leaving the planet behind. Then a spaceship pod crashes near him, containing a mysterious, beautiful woman (Olga Kurylenko) and things get a lot more complicated…
With a lot more of the effects work finished, we get to see even more spectacle this time around, making this look like a blend of The Matri****x and a Philip K Dick novel with a dash of Star Wars-style action.
Oblivion arrives on April 12.