Recently i had the chance to watch oblivion starring tom cruise jack. As earth is invaded by alien tripod fighting machines, one family. Tom cruise will star as jak harper, a drone repairman whose longstanding battle with alien invaders is drawing to an end. Edge of tomorrow trailer 1 2014 tom cruise scifi movie hd a soldier fighting in a. All 42 tom cruise movies, ranked from worst to best. Oblivion is a 20 sciencefiction film that is an adaptation of a unpublished graphic novel cowritten by joseph kosinski who also directed this film. We break down every single one of tom cruise s movies to figure out which one is his alltime best and which are the absolute worst. Tom cruise stars in oblivion, an original and groundbreaking cinematic event from the visionary director of tron. And now that the movie is in theaters and a lot of people have had the.
A veteran assigned to extract earths remaining resources begins to question what he knows about his mission and himself. Sixty years earlier, a race of alien scavengers destroyed the moon and. Get oblivion dvd and bluray release date, trailer, movie poster and movie stats. The film takes place in a future where most of europe is invaded by an alien.
With tom cruise, morgan freeman, andrea riseborough, olga kurylenko. Tom cruise joins yukikaze anime adaptation top gun. Born on july 3, 1962 in syracuse, ny, cruise was highschool wrestler until he was sidelined by a. Movie stars, like politicians or other public figures, learn early on how to feign candor while keeping. Most of humanity has left earth for a massive tetrahedral space station called tet. The 20 crop comprises an unplanned, if not accidental, collective declaration of the essence of the cinema, an art of images and sounds that, at their best, dont exist to tell a story or to tantalize the audience though they may well do so but, rather, to reflect a crisis in the life of the filmmaker and the state of the artists mind. Tom cruise attached to star in yukikaze adaptation for. This is the definitive ranking of the greatest alien encounter movies as scored by metacritic.
Katharina kubrick, malcolm mcdowell, stanley kubrick, barbara kroner. From his teen idol days in the early 80s to his status as a marqueelighting leading man today, tom cruise has consistently done it all for decades hes completed impossible missions, learned about wapner time in rain man, driven the highway to the danger zone in top gun, and done wonders for bob segers royalty statements in risky. It was also claimed that the movie s poster, in which a slithering alien hand zealously clasps the. All 42 tom cruise movies, ranked by tomatometer tom cruise movies, ranked by tomatometer. In 1976, if you had told fourteenyearold franciscan seminary student thomas cruise mapother iv that one day in the not too distant future he would be tom cruise, one of the top 100 movie stars of all time, he would have probably.
In 1976, if you had told fourteenyearold franciscan seminary student thomas cruise mapother iv that one day in the not too distant future he would be tom cruise, one of the top 100 movie stars of all time, he would have probably grinned and told you that his ambition was to join the priesthood. The film is set in the year 2077, sixty years after earth has been devastated from the effects of an alien invasion. Edge of tomorrow trailer 1 2014 tom cruise scifi movie hd. He starred in oblivion 20, and edge of tomorrow 2014 which saw him return to the science fiction genre. Edge of tomorrow is a 2014 american science fiction action film starring tom cruise and emily blunt. Tom cruise takes on alien invasion in edge of tomorrow. Cruise played the title role in action thriller jack reacher 2012 and in its sequel jack reacher.
Not only does this action star involve aliens in many of his movies, but tom cruise actually makes a strong case for being an alien. With tom cruise, dakota fanning, tim robbins, miranda otto. War of the worlds is a 2005 american science fiction action film directed by steven spielberg and written by josh friedman and david koepp, loosely based on the similarlytitled novel by h. This wont be the first time kambayashis story has been translated into a visual medium. Movie trailer for oblivion 20 by the critical movie critics comic adaptation starring tom cruise as a future soldier sent to cleanup the earth. Oblivion the best tom cruise film ever posted on april 22, 20 film superstar tom cruise has made plenty of movies 37 and counting, but his turn as jack harper in oblivion is probably his best work ever. Cruise plays a guy named jack harper in the year 2077. This has been uploaded to promote the movie and m83. The aliens have destroyed the moon and were defeated by nuclear weapons and the earthlings have moved to saturns moon titan since the planet was completely destroyed.
Tom cruise stars in oblivion, an original and groundbreaking cinematic event from the director of tron. Doug liman directed the film based on a screenplay adapted from the 2004 japanese light novel all you need is kill by hiroshi sakurazaka. The career and life of stanley kubrick is explored through pictures, clips from his films, his old home movies, comments from his colleagues and a narration by tom cruise. Tom cruise is killed 10 minutes into the movie, says doug liman, who also directed the bourne identity and mr. Its basically one of those postapocalyptic stories in which the movie plot begins with the story how the humans fought the aliens and won, however humans had to move from earth to titan because the war was too devastating for the planet and. Then oblivion, the tom cruise vehicle from director joseph kosinski tron. Legacy and producers of rise of the planet of the apes. Tom cruise, emily blunt movie hd the epic action of edge of tomorrow unfolds in a near future in which an alien. Tom cruise takes on alien inv asion in edge of tomorrow. It stars tom cruise with dakota fanning, justin chatwin, miranda otto, and tim robbins in supporting roles. Major william cage tom cruise spends his days in the films nearfuture setting spinning the armed forces ongoing efforts against a hostile alien race dubbed mimics without ever setting. Oblivion trailer 2 20 tom cruise, morgan freeman scifi movie hd tom cruise stars in oblivion, an original and groundbreaking cinematic event from. Jack harper tom cruise is nearing the end of his mission to extract resources essential to the survival of the human race when he witnesses a spacecraft fall from the sky.
Menu icon a vertical stack of three evenly spaced horizontal lines. Tom cruise has signed on for yet another scifi project the actor is attached to star in yukikaze, an adaptation from warner bros. Scifi movie hd tom cruise movie 20 jacks moto bike. You have cool space ships, decent cgi effects, meanlooking robots, spaceage costumes and quite a novel spin on the somewhat tired alien invasion movie. The greatest alien encounter movies ever, ranked cnet. With tom cruise, emily blunt, bill paxton, brendan gleeson. Tom cruise is one of the worlds most visible people, and one of its least seen. Wells and jointly produced and released by paramount pictures and dreamworks pictures. Cruise recently signed on to star in the movie for warner bros. Still, despite its subpar story resolution, oblivion is good enough to remember. Which is too bad, because the next moment returns us to the dire emotions of. Scifi movie hd tom cruise movie 20 jacks moto bike oblivion behind the scenes hd.
A soldier fighting aliens gets to relive the same day over and over again, the. Tom cruise using a mirror to fool the probe is the first moment in war of the worlds that shouts this is a movie. How entertaining you consider the movie depends greatly on how good of an action star you consider him, because the third act does border on the overlong and unsatisfying. Jack harper tom cruise is nearing the end of his mission to extract resources essential to the survival of the human race when he witnesses a. All you need to know is that aliens are trying to mix it with tom cruise. Oblivion is a 20 american postapocalyptic actionadventure film coproduced and directed by joseph kosinski, and produced by peter chernin with screenplay by karl gajdusek and michael debruyn, starring tom cruise in the main role alongside olga kurylenko, andrea riseborough. Oblivion trailer 2 20 tom cruise, morgan freeman scifi movie hd tom cruise stars in oblivion, an original and groundbreaking. Tom cruise full list of movies and tv shows in theaters, in production and upcoming films. Some of cruise s later films like a few good men and the last samurai. A veteran assigned to extract earths remaining resources begins to.
Stay in the know with the latest movie news and cast interviews at. In 2073, a 37yearold former marine commander named jack harper tom cruise is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on earth, which was nearly destroyed by an alien invasion 60 years earlier. Impossible fallout, we rank his 20 best films, from 1983s the outsiders to 2008s tropic thunder hadley freeman. Edelstein admitted he had such a hard time following the plot of this movie. Hes among the remnant of survivors of a period 60 years before, during which aliens destroyed the moon, causing massive.