Drones and Clones

"Well, that does it Charlie -- we've outsourced everything."

Spoilers.

I went and saw Tom Cruise's Oblivion. It was okay. The story is that an alien AI upside down triangle appears near Earth. It doesn't announce its intentions, sort of like 2001: A Space Odyssey's obelisk in space. So the humans send astronauts to check it out. The upside-down space triangle captures the astronauts and makes a clone army using their DNA. (Inside the triangle alien ship we see thousands of clones in fetal positions, like the fetus in 2001.) They attack the Earth, basically destroying humanity except for a few dead-enders who are holed up in hideouts. Once the alien AI had won, it sets up giant robotic harvesters to harvest the Earth's resources to fuel itself. The harvesters are protected from sabotage by drones. Clones of the astronauts perform maintenance on the drones.

One of the clones, named Jack Harper after the original astronaut, has his humanity reawakened. He has been lied to by the alien about his situation and gradually discovers the truth. He meets the surviving humans and decides to go on a suicide mission to blow up the upside down triangle and save humanity.

In the process the clone of Jack Harper meets Harper's real wife. Even though he dies saving humanity, another clone of Jack Harper gets the girl and gets to live happily ever after.