but since then, I heard so many good things about it. So I decided to check it out when it came on DVD. It was quite good. What doomed this movie at the box office was the marketing, the generic @$$ title, and the fact it was a Tom Cruise Sci Fi film. People probably wondered how it differed from something like "Oblivion" which was a sci fi movie just previous to this one. Not to say Cruise was bad in it. He was quite good doing his "Tom Cruise" thing. But I think people dismissed it off the bat whereas they would have given it a chance if it were a different star.

With a better title, marketing campaign and a different star, people would have checked for it and it would have been a massive hit IMO.

>i went in w/ low expectations and ended up very pleasantly
>surprised.
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