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David McK (3801 KP) rated Oblivion (2013) in Movies

May 26, 2026  
Oblivion (2013)
Oblivion (2013)
2013 | Action, Sci-Fi
6
7.2 (23 Ratings)
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There was a period, during the early 2000s and 2010s, where Tom Cruise seemed to star in a string of science fiction movies: Minority Report, The War of the Worlds, Edge of Tomorrow (aka Live. Die Repeat).

And this.

Which largely seems to be forgotten.

In this, Cruise plays security repairman Jack Harper, stationed on Earth (after the defeat of an alien invasion) in order to repair drones that look after massive machinery from the remnants of the defeated alien foe.

Or so he initially believes.

Until he rescues a stranger from a downed spacecraft - a woman he has never met yet has recurring dreams of.

So, what we have, really, is a sci-fi mystery where Cruise (of course) sprints, rides motorbikes and tries to make sense of it all!
  
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Heather Cranmer (2721 KP) created a post

Feb 9, 2023  
Sneak a peek at the young adult Christian science fiction trilogy SANDS OF TIME by C.J. Peterson on my blog, and enter the giveaway for a chance to win all three eBooks in the trilogy - two winners!

https://alltheupsandowns.blogspot.com/2023/02/book-blog-tour-and-giveaway-sands-of.html

**SERIES SYNOPSIS**
In the game of chess, there are moves and countermoves. This sci-fi series follows a group of teens with abilities as they go through the U.S. to rescue their siblings. The challenger in this is their sadistic creator, Professor Noah Roth, who has the money and power to win at any cost. This series has been described as “Stranger Things (minus the Mind Flayer portion) meets X-Men.” Don’t miss a single installment of this explosive, action-packed series!
      
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David McK (3801 KP) rated Bloodshot (2020) in Movies

Oct 30, 2021  
Bloodshot (2020)
Bloodshot (2020)
2020 | Action, Drama, Fantasy
6
6.4 (30 Ratings)
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What do you get if you take 'Universal Soldier', add a dollop of 'Terminator 2', a sprinkle of 'The Matrix', and a vertiginous punch-up that could have been taken straight from 'Spider-Man 2'?

The answer is this movie.

Except it's not as good as any of the previously mentioned; missing that spark that makes all of them science-fiction classics.

Vin Diesel - in-between headlining The Fast and the Furious franchise - must simply have been looking for a payday.

Here, he pays marine Ray Garrison, resurrected by a team of scientists after he and has wife are murdered, and setting out on a mission of revenge. It also takes about 45 minutes or so before you get to the good(ish) stuff, where the layers start to peel away ...
  
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David McK (3801 KP) rated Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, #1) in Books

Jan 30, 2019  
Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, #1)
Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, #1)
Jack Campbell | 2006 | Science Fiction/Fantasy
8
8.0 (3 Ratings)
Book Rating
While I doubt this novel is going to win any awards for literature, I have to say that it is a good enough read: not brilliant, but not terrible either.

Written by a ex-navy man, it's easy to see the influnece of his career in the pages: this is 'real' science-fiction, not science-fantasy, with the space battles obeying the laws of physics as we know them. The plot outline is also somewhat remniscient of the new series of BattleStar Galactica, with a smaller rag-tag force being chased by a numerically superior foe. Ironically, this book was first released at around the same time as that series came on TV, with (in this edition) the author claiming that that WAS NOT an inspiration (in the interview at the end), as if he'd been thinking of BSG it woud've been the older series.

With the way the book opens I must also admit that, at first, I thought I'd missed something: the best corollary I can think of is as if the film Aliens (that's the one with the 'S') had started without the whole prologue of them finding Ripleys life pod: you'd be able to infer what had happened, but would be feeling a bit lost at first.