Oblivion
As the name implies, this is a truly forgettable sci-fi action film. 2001, Event Horizon, then franchise:Terminator and The Prestige. Don’t forget about 1984, there’s Victoria and Julia duking it out.
Astronauts explore space when they find some alien craft called Tet (is that a Vietnam reference?). The captain and the navigator jettison the rest of the crew in cryo sleep, and are taken away, after Rendezvous with Rama.
Said alien clones them by the thousands, takes care of most humans, and uses some big machines to suck all the water out of the sea. The clones are memory wiped and used to mop up any human resistance, hunting and killing them one by one. Those guys had a selfie they took, the aliens though they were lovers, so they make it so.
The protagonist finds an antenna transmitting coordinates. On that location, the missing astronauts fall from the sky, but the drones kill them. All, except for a woman, the protagonist’s wife! She was on the shuttle too, sleeping, and there’s a bit of a cat fight between the two woman.
The protagonist is swayed by the new woman’s tank top, they go back to the downed ship and are captured by the resistance: Morgan Freeman in tunnels, with Coster-Waldau and the stunt woman from American Ninja Warrior.
The resistance seems to be winning, they blow up one of the water collection thingies and rigged some nukes to destroy Tet. The need one of the clones to setup the drone that will blow it up.
But the drones catch up to them. They destroy the drone, which means they must sacrifice themselves, the aliens really want the other human. She is cryo frozen and our protagonist takes her away.
Alas, it was a trick! The protagonist and the wife fucked off screen in the previous scene, so she was whisked to his lake bungalow, and allowed to raise their child. The protagonist and dying Morgan Freeman nuked the Tet.
There’s still one extra clone, and he’s good now, even though last time he was left for dead in the middle of nowhere.
Wait, this was written by the Little Miss Sunshine dude? What the hell?
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