Saturday, July 26, 2025

Tom Cruise Movies

Top Gun (1986)

Rain Man (1988)

****Mission Impossible  (1996). Everything goes wrong as the team is mostly killed.

****Mission Impossible II (2000) A virus has been manufactured to make profits through sell of the vaccine.

****Mission Impossible III (2006). Phillip Seymour Hoffman as the villain

****Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (2011). Jeremy Renner costars 

****Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (2015). The syndicate A British Intelligence organization has gone rogue.  They are in the same business as the IMF

****Mission Impossible: ****Fallout (2018). A nuclear bomb is involved

***^Edge of Tomorrow (2014) A futuristic action film with Emily Blunt

***^ Oblivion (2013) A post apocalyptic world 

***^Jack Reacher (2012)

Friday, July 25, 2025

Movie Review: ***^Oblivion (2013)

 Tom Cruise stars in this futuristic view of earth after a war with aliens.  Cruise actually portrays several different characters, all named Jack, each cloned form the same base person.  He and Victoria (Andrea Riseborough) man an outpost on earth.  The humans apparently won the war, but the aliens, scavengers, are also eft on earth.  

Things turn upside down when Jack is captured by the scavengers, who are not aliens but humans who have been left on a post apocalyptic earth.  They are lead by Beech (Morgan Freeman).  Turns out they are the remnant of the inhabitants of earth.  Jack has been having dreams of a woman, Julia (Olga Kurylenko) his wife from a past life, and turns out that her ship crashes into earth and Jack is able to rescue her. 

Most of earth is off limits, considered a radiation zone.  Beech tells them that if they really want to know what is happening they will find answers in the radiation zone.  This movie has a very serious twist.  I was surprised.  Nothing is as it seems.