Visually this movie is pretty amazing and that alone was worth watching it, but from a story line standpoint this movie suffers from being sterile. In fact even the beauty of this movie has a sterile-ness to it that makes it somewhat off putting.
The story line is just a normal retread of a bunch of sci-fi stories, even the "big" twist I figured out about a half an hour into the movie (not that the trailer really helped with that). Even with a retold story the movie could have been good with some decent characters to guide the story towards its end. Sadly the characters in this movie are as sterile and dead as the world around them. They are so boring and devoid of life that I didn't care about them, what they did, or anything about them through the whole movie. It seems dialogue and characterization has become a thing of the past when it comes to Hollywood movies, which is something I've been harping on for a long time now. Even the movie Gravity had a simple story line that's been retold a thousand times but it was made fresh with the approach taken by the director, even then they dared to give the main character some actual character and wanted the audience to care about her. Even George Clooney's character, for his brief appearance, had more character than the all the characters in this movie.
Anyone going to see this movie, who knows about movies, shouldn't be surprised with the lifeless beauty of the movie considering the director Joseph Kosinski's last directed movie was Tron: Legacy. That movie was even more lifeless than Oblivion but yet had the same kind of visual eye candy as this movie did. The end result is no matter how much a turd is covered in gold or polished to look pretty - it's still a piece of poop, no matter what it looks like on the outside.
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