FILM REVIEW -Oblivion- It's Tom Cruse so I have to go.  I'm a fan , even in average films. He has a charm and screen presence that can brighten up even a dull script.  Oblivion's screenplay is interesting and worthy of a second look.  But the problem is that it is too long and slow to develop.  At least 15 minutes could have been edited out and replaced with some action chase sequences.  I can't believe I'm saying this, but , 3D would have improved the final product.
   Science Fiction, by it's nature,  asks us to suspend our disbelief for a few short hours as we enter the year 2077.   OK,  I did that and got lost in earth 60 years after an alien invasion and war destroyed the planet . The set design is stunning and the future technology held my interest.  But then the plot took a turn that I just could not buy into.  Just as Cruse's character is forced to take a memory erase every 5 years, I was wishing for one at that point.  Despite all this, I was entertained.
   We are told early on that humans won the war, but because of nuclear fallout, were forced to relocated to the planet Titan.  Cruse and his sexy partner , Andrea Riseborough, are left to repair Drones and keep watch over the few leftover aliens who live on earth  But Cruse's memory keeps flashing back to a familiar face , Olga Kurlenko, and he begins to question everything.  At this point we meet Morgan Freeman,  who is excellent but underused in the storyline.  Anything more said would spoil it for the viewer.
Directed by Tron Legacy's Joseph Kosinski      PG-13   126 minutes  2 1/2 stars