I’m a little leery of Tom Cruise in the same way I’m leery of Mel Gibson. Their off-screen personalities and controversies have a way of dominating their on-screen presence for me.

Nevertheless, I’ll be seeing Cruise’s new film, “Jack Reacher,” since it’s based on the fun Lee Child crime novels – although Cruise is miscast as Reacher – and I’ll check out “Oblivion” when it comes out next spring.

As you can tell from the trailer, “Oblivion” features Cruise as a soft of human Wall-E, cleaning up an abandoned Earth. But the solitary duty goes haywire when Morgan Freeman and a bunch of mysterious survivors appear.

“Oblivion” looks quite intriguing. It opens in April.