If the first trailer for Joseph Kosinski‘s Oblivion made Tom Cruise look like a human Wall-E, the second turns him into a more typical sci-fi action hero. Not that that’s a bad thing. The new video offers a better idea of just why Jack is so intrigued by the mysterious woman (Olga Kurylenko) in the spacecraft, and what’s at stake when he decides to go against orders. Hit the jump to watch.

MSN Movies got the new trailer.

Morgan Freeman sure knows how to make a dramatic entrance — and this in a movie where one of the other characters literally falls out of the sky.

Oblivion seems to follow a lot of the same beats we’ve seen in other sci-fi movies, but it’s got a strong cast and some fantastic visual effects going for it. Kosinski’s vision of a post-apocalyptic Earth is austere but beautiful, and if the sky station looks a little Apple Store-esque and the underworld a bit Matrix-y, at least it all looks striking.

Written by Kosinski, Karl Gajdusek, and Michael Arndt based on Kosinski and Arvid Nelson‘s comic book, Oblivion opens April 19. Andrea Riseborough, Melissa Leo, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau also star.