Plot:
The earth is nothing like it used to be after being attacked from a race of cyber aliens. Jack (Tom Cruise) is a member of a team of two that is stationed around the earth that is there to repair drones that are sent to study the remaining resources on the planet. However Jack must be careful because the world is still inhabited by the remnants of cyber aliens made of machines. So the drones serve two purposes: to patrol the earth looking for resources and second, to fire on hostile life-forms.
Jack does this normal routine of repairing these drones, but finds his world tossed upside down when he comes on a crash landed ship full of cryo-sleeping humans on board. While investigating the crash site, one of the drones starts firing on the cryo-containers. He tries to fight off the drone and manages to save only one and takes it back to base camp. The sleeper human awakes and tells Jack she knows him, but Jack has no memory of her. To find out more, he assists her in recovering the black box on her crash landed ship, but in the process is captured by the hostile alien race who proves to be the quite opposite and this being a group of humans with a man named Beech (Morgan Freeman) as their leader. It is here that Beech offers Jack the opportunity to find out the truth of himself and explore the territory considered radioactive on the side of his survey area. It is here that Jack receives the surprise that will change his life forever.
My thoughts:
For originality of plot, this movie delivers with a bang with mysteries that will eventually come into fruition as you keep watching. The film is filled with twists and turns where you think you know what's going on, and then it is replaced with you saying "no way." The plot is great, but does have a flaw. If you don't pay attention to what's going on, you may get lost in the plot and not know what exactly what is happening which may leave you confused and frustrated.
Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman made this movie so much fun. They are great characters that help drive the plot and the story. Even with this though, there was points in the film where it felt like the film was dragging its feet and could pick up the pace. This was more so at the beginning of the film. But that being said, I did enjoy this film and it is worth seeing at least once.
Rating:
2 Popcorns
It is enjoyable, but not earth shattering if you take your time to see it. This could easily be a redbox film, but like I said enjoyable enough I'd recommend seeing it at least once.