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  1. Oblivion (2013 film)

    Oblivion is a 2013 American post-apocalyptic action-adventure film produced and directed by Joseph Kosinski from a screenplay by Karl Gajdusek and Michael deBruyn, starring Tom Cruise in the main role alongside Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, and Melissa Leo in supporting roles. Based on Kosinski's unpublished graphic novel of the same name, the film ...

  2. Why are there so many left handed shooters in movies and on TV?

    But if you watch any action movie chances are that at least one person, usually multiple people will be using their left. Has to do with how the camera is usually positioned. Typically the camera is on the actor's right side as they are commonly on the left of the shot facing to the right. If the actor were to point with their right arm it ...

  3. Oblivion (2013)

    Oblivion: Directed by Joseph Kosinski. With Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough. A veteran assigned to extract Earth's remaining resources begins to question what he knows about his mission and himself.

  4. Oblivion: 14 Facts About Tom Cruise's 2013 Hit Movie That Are ...

    Cruise must have loved him as a collaborator, since the duo reunited a few films later for "Top Gun: Maverick." But it was that 2013 film, Kosinski's visually stunning "Oblivion," that first ...

  5. Valkyrie (film)

    Valkyrie is a 2008 thriller film directed by Bryan Singer, written by Christopher McQuarrie and Nathan Alexander, starring Tom Cruise.The film is set in Nazi Germany during World War II and depicts the 20 July plot in 1944 by German army officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and to use the Operation Valkyrie national emergency plan to take control of the country.

  6. Oblivion movie review & film summary (2013)

    If nothing else, "Oblivion" will go down in film history as the movie where Tom Cruise pilots a white, sperm-shaped craft into a giant space uterus. The scene is more interesting to describe than it is to watch. Cruise's sperm-ship enters through an airlock that resembles a geometrized vulva. He arrives inside a massive chamber lined with egg-like glass bubbles. At the center of the chamber is ...

  7. The Ending Of Oblivion Explained

    Before Tom Cruise and director Joseph Kosinski combined their efforts to soar on screen and at the box office with "Top Gun: Maverick," the two collaborated on "Oblivion." The 2013 sci-fi film ...

  8. Oblivion (2013)

    Oblivion. PG-13 Released Apr 19, 2013 2h 15m Sci-Fi Adventure Action. List. 54% Tomatometer 259 Reviews. 61% Audience Score 100,000+ Ratings. In the year 2077, Jack Harper works as a security ...

  9. Oblivion Movie Ending, Explained

    'Oblivion' continues to divide critics and audiences even today; nothing too polar since the film's popularity has somewhat been masked by other stellar Tom Cruise outings, but enough to warrant a discussion even now. The audience verdict was much more favourable than what critics had to say about the film. However, the one thing that […]

  10. Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman: 'Oblivion' Film Review

    A sort of The Eternal Return played out in the ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet Earth, Joseph Kosinski 's Oblivion is an absolutely gorgeous film dramatically caught between its aspirations ...

  11. 'Oblivion,' With Tom Cruise

    In "Oblivion," Tom Cruise is a repairman on a post-apocalyptic Earth who finds himself confronting a stranger-than-usual work order. ... The only ones left on the planet appear to be Jack ...

  12. The Empty Thrill of 'Oblivion'

    The Empty Thrill of 'Oblivion'. Tom Cruise stars in a mildly satisfying sci-fi epic that thinks it's smarter than it is. By Spencer Kornhaber. April 20, 2013. Universal. The year is 2077, and ...

  13. Oblivion (2013)

    Synopsis. In the year 2077, Tech 49 Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) is one of the last drone repairmen stationed on Earth. According to Jack, the planet was nearly destroyed sixty years earlier, during a war against a race of alien invaders known as Scavengers ("Scavs"). The Scavs destroyed the moon, causing massive earthquakes and tsunamis, and then ...

  14. Tom Cruise sees the light in sci-fi film 'Oblivion'

    In Oblivion Cruise plays Jack Harper, one of the last humans left on Earth in 2077 after a brutal war, tasked with fixing drones that patrol for rogue aliens. Cruise called his first sci-fi film ...

  15. Oblivion

    Oblivion - Apple TV. In the year 2077, Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) works as a security repairman on an Earth left empty and devastated after a war with aliens. Jack has two weeks left before his mission ends and he joins his fellow survivors on a faraway colony. However, Jack's concept of reality comes crashing down after he rescues a beautiful ...

  16. Not Even Tom Cruise Can Save 'Oblivion'

    Tom Cruise plays Jack Harper, one of the few people left on Earth in 2077, following a disastrous war with aliens that left the humans victorious but their planet a wasteland of radiation and ruin.

  17. Oblivion is Tom Cruise's most underrated blockbuster that you should

    10 years later, Oblivion is still Tom Cruise's most underrated blockbuster. By Alex Welch April 19, 2023. Top Gun: Maverick may have cemented Tom Cruise's return to the top echelon of the ...

  18. Talk:Oblivion

    Actually looking back, I think he used left hand in Vanilla Sky and well his character is forced to be left handed in Valkyrie because the character is missing the right hand. Excalibur01 12:13, 9 June 2013 (EDT) Actually if you watch Taps Cruise switches from left to right several times throughout the film while handling his M-16.--

  19. They Literally Built That Awesome Bubble Ship from Oblivion

    They Literally Built Oblivion's Awesome Bubble Ship, with a Little Help from Tom Cruise. Science fiction has no shortage of iconic vessels, but somehow Oblivion 's bubble ship always gets left by the wayside. By Josh Weiss Jan 24, 2024, 12:58 PM ET. Area 51 - Aliens, Nazi Scientists and Tom Cruise (Discomplicated) | SYFY WIRE.

  20. Is Tom Cruise Left Handed?

    However, it is essential to know this to gauge how Tom Cruise has been pulling those stunts in his movies. Yes. Tom Cruise is left-handed, but he is also ambidextrous. While he acts most of his movies with his right hand, the star has revealed that he is left-handed, and he discovered this as a child. Keep reading to learn more about Tom's ...

  21. Talk:Tom Cruise

    It seems, for the most part, that Tom Cruise is right handed due to his pistol firing, but he seems to aim left handed with long guns. Could he be left eye Dominant?--One shot is all it takes. ... The first movie I've seen him holding something left handed is in Oblivion Excalibur01 13:28, 25 October 2014 (EDT)

  22. Oblivion

    Oblivion is a 2013 science-fiction film that is an adaptation of a unpublished graphic novel co-written by Joseph Kosinski (who also directed this film). The film is set in the year 2077, sixty years after Earth has been devastated from the effects of an alien invasion. Most of humanity has left Earth for a massive tetrahedral space station (called Tet).

  23. Tom Cruise was lucky to escape serious injury after being filmed f

    Cruise was filming for Oblivion at the time, where he plays the character of Jack Harper who works as a security repairman on an Earth left empty after a war with aliens. Set in the year 2077 ...