<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-855" alt="oblivion-film(apr13)" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/oblivion-filmapr13.jpg" width="200" height="136" />We went to see Oblivion the other evening despite it receiving some damning criticisms from the Sunday Times film critic. Thankfully we ignored them because what do critics know.

We love sci-fi so even a poor story line will have us hooked as long as the gadgets are smart and Oblivion had plenty of expensive technology even if the connection between earth and the Control Centre went off at night - we cannot figure out why that would be but let's not dig too deep into the practicalities because this is a film and not reality.

So earth has been invaded but humanity has survived sufficiently to realise that the planet is no longer sustainable so techies remain on the planet to harvest its resources before migrating to another habitable planet. Or at least that's how it starts. Without wishing to give too much away there is a twist that comes out of nowhere and is very good. There are doubts and the doubts are what make this film very entertaining. Plenty of edge of the seat stuff and similarities to <a title="Moon" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182345/?ref_=sr_3" target="_blank">Moon</a> with questions about one's own existence for good measure.

We enjoyed it very much and after the initial enjoyment we spent some time discussing the flaws in the story line but as mentioned before "let's not dig too deep into the practicalities because this is a film and not reality". We gave it 4 stars (out of 5).