Tom Cruise. What can I say? You are as brilliant as you are gorgeous. But “Oblivion”… that was something else (in a good way). You might think you know this story; in the end Cruise gets the girl and they live happily ever after, just like in every other Tom Cruise movie. Well, think again. Cruise uses his kick-butt action skills that we’ve all seen in “Mission: Impossible” paired with his ability to be completely confused about what’s happening around him.

In this science-fiction filled thriller, Jack (Cruise) and his partner Victoria (Andrea Riseborough) are the “clean-up crew” for a now-destroyed Earth after aliens obliterated the moon, forever changing Mother Nature’s course on Earth. A few hundred tornados, tsunamis, and 60 years later, you can find Jack and Victoria living in an awesome glass house suspended hundreds of feet off the ground with no memory of their former life after having their memories erased for security purposes.

Their job? Fix drones. Drones are the guards of huge metal machines that are sucking up the rest of Earth’s resources so they can be sent to Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, where the rest of Earth’s survivors reside. The only conflict with their jobs is the Scavs. Scavs are what Jack, Victoria, and Tet (their mission control unit just outside of Earth’s atmosphere) call creatures that appeared when the moon was destroyed. With their black gasmask-like gear, their mission is to destroy the drones.

Although Jack has no recollection of his life before, he keeps having the same dream of a woman and the Empire State Building. He soon finds said woman, Julia (Olga Kurylenko), in the wreckage of a pre-alien invasion space craft, called the Odyssey.  After Julia is found, Jack starts to remember some of his past, and the team uncovers the truth about the invasion and who the real bad guy is.

With only a few questionable scenes and a sad moment or two, Oblivion is definitely a must-see for this spring’s selection of movies.