Director: Joseph Kosinski
Release Date: 2013
Rating: 12
Running Time: 120 minutes
Genre: Sci-fi
Actors: Tom Cruise, Andrea Riseborough, Olga Kurylenko, Morgan Freeman
"How can man die better than facing fearful odds"
From riding motorbikes, to running, to looking 20 years younger than he is, to saving the day, is there anything Tom Cruise can't do..that we haven't seen time and time before
I'm going to be honest, I was sceptical when this film came out. For me it appeared to be just another Tom Cruise film about Tom Cruise where Tom Cruise does a load of cool stuff and everything else is just background. This of course did prove to be the case and, this much like any typical Tom Cruise film there proved to be a lot of him running, driving motorbikes and surviving impossible odds. Of course this is what I was expecting to find, so fair enough I managed to get my money's worth from it. However hidden away under the incredibly long establishment that this is a typical Tom Cruise film there was an underlying of important narrative development that hinted that perhaps this film might actually go somewhere, and after a long period of showing the devastation of post apocalyptic New York stemmed quite an exciting story that managed to keep me interested for the majority of the film.
It's a fairly simple premise for the film, earth has been inhabited by Aliens who plan to take over, and after 50 years, there are few survivors as all the humans have evacuated the planet, all except two humans who stayed to repair the drones that helped maintain the planet after the humans left, Jack Harper (Tom Curise - not to be mistaken for Jack Reacher) and his partner Victoria (Andrea Riseborough). All seems well for the lone survivors maintaining civilisation, until a ship falls from space and crash lands with some unlikely survivors that begins to cause Jack to question his past and his very existence.
Perhaps a fairly predictable film, rolling out every cliche in the book, but there's no denying it is a very exciting sci-fi, once it finally pulls you in.
7/10
