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GenreAction, Adventure & Sci-Fi
RatedPG-13
Runtime2 hr 4 mins
ReleasedApril 19, 2013
StreamingSee Where to Watch
DirectorJoseph Kosinski
StarringTom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko
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Oblivion (2013)
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| Oblivion's Details | |
| Genre | Action, Adventure & Sci-Fi |
| Rated | PG-13 |
| Released | 03/26/2013 (Buenos Aires); 04/19/2013 (United States) |
| Streaming | See Where to Watch on this page. |
| Running Time | 2 hr 4 mins |
| Budget | $120M (reported) |
| Box Office | Updated daily from Box Office Mojo. See the numbers below. |
| Based On | Oblivion by Joseph Kosinski |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Oblivion's Interests | |
| General | Bubble ships, glass sky towers, drones, Yankees caps, vinyl records, a lakeside cabin, sunken skyscrapers. |
| Music | M83, with Joseph Trapanese. Synths the size of the sky. |
| Movies | Top Gun: Maverick (2022). Kosinski and Cruise, round two, with real jets. |
| Television | Life After People. A whole show about what happens to cities when everyone leaves. |
| Heroes | Jack Harper. Fixes drones all day, reads old books all night. |
| Oblivion's Crew | |
| Director | Joseph Kosinski |
| Writers | Karl Gajdusek, Michael deBruyn |
| Producers | Peter Chernin, Dylan Clark, Duncan Henderson, Joseph Kosinski, Barry Levine |
| Cinematography | Claudio Miranda |
| Music | M83 (original music), Anthony Gonzalez, (music composed), Joseph Trapanese, (music composed) |
| Edited By | Richard Francis-Bruce |
| Production | Universal Pictures, Relativity Media, Chernin Entertainment, Monolith Pictures, Radical Studios |
| Distributed By | Universal Pictures |
Somebody fed a stack of old sci-fi paperbacks into a blender, and Tom Cruise climbed out in a very clean jumpsuit. Oblivion borrows from so many classics you could play bingo with it, and the big reveals show up long after you’ve already figured them out. That’s the problem. The good news is it looks incredible. Joseph Kosinski shoots a ruined Earth like a luxury car ad: a spotless white tower above the clouds, a bubble-shaped ship, drones that hum like angry vacuum cleaners. Andrea Riseborough is the best thing in it, a woman holding her whole life together with a polite smile and a glass desk. Morgan Freeman shows up late to explain things in his very Morgan Freeman voice. It made $286.2 million worldwide on a reported $120M budget, so somebody liked the jumpsuit too. A 6.3 because the design is gorgeous and the story is a remix you’ve already heard. $706 says you spend half the movie naming the other sci-fi movies it reminds you of, out loud.
What works: The gorgeous design of the sky tower and bubble ship, and Andrea Riseborough’s tightly wound performance.
What doesn’t: Almost every twist is borrowed from older sci-fi, so the big reveals arrive long after you’ve guessed them.
Who it’s for: People who watch sci-fi for the look, and anyone who wants to see Tom Cruise fly a very cool little ship.
Spoilers
Jack is one of many clones of the real astronaut Jack Harper, the scavengers he’s been fighting are human survivors, and the real invader is the Tet. Jack flies a bomb into the Tet to end it, and later another Jack clone finds Julia and her young daughter.
It's 2077, decades after a war with alien invaders left the Moon in pieces and Earth mostly empty. Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) is one of the last people still on the surface, repairing the drones that guard huge machines pulling energy out of the oceans. He and his partner Victoria (Andrea Riseborough) live in a glass tower above the clouds, two weeks away from joining everyone else in space. Jack keeps dreaming about a woman he has never met. Then a spacecraft crashes nearby, and Julia (Olga Kurylenko), the woman in his dreams, is on board. Joseph Kosinski directs. One hundred twenty-four minutes, and Jack has a lot of questions.
Anyone with a secret hideout full of vinyl and old paperbacks. Jack wants to trade.
| Tom Cruise | Jack Harper—Tech 49 |
| Morgan Freeman | Malcolm Beech |
| Olga Kurylenko | Julia Rusakova Harper |
| Andrea Riseborough | Victoria "Vika" Olsen |
| Nikolaj Coster-Waldau | Sergeant Sykes |
| Melissa Leo | the Tet |
| Zoë Bell | Kara |
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 18 October 2026 DataBot +40 Numbers refreshed: IMDb users 7.0 / 10 (592,214 votes) → 7.0 / 10 (592,234 votes).
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 17 October 2026 DataBot +480 Numbers refreshed: Worldwide box office $286.2M; Domestic box office $89.1M; Opening weekend $37.1M; Profit / loss (est.) -$36.9M; Rotten Tomatoes 53%; CinemaScore B−; box office chart updated; Rotten Tomatoes critics 53% (254 reviews); Metacritic 54 / 100; CinemaScore B−; IMDb users 7.0 / 10 (592,214 votes); movie.guru score 4.8.
- (cur | prev) 12:00, 17 October 2026 DataBot +2,000 Profile created from Wikipedia and Box Office Mojo: cast, crew, release dates, budget, official trailer.