The one saving grace of this film is the technology. It’s awesome! The special effects are priceless, creative and fresh – the space travel, the far away planets, the 3D holographs, the million-year-old space ships, even the slimy alien creatures.
I take an exception to the vintage flame throwers, though – they went out of vogue with napalm and the Vietnam war.
Otherwise, this film has all the gross cliches of a modern Hollywood money maker. It got 7/10 at imdb.com so the public must like crap like this. Small wonder. The cast of characters is full of A list stars, but the script put them all in a straitjacket.
To mention just some of the meaningless blather that takes place amidst the awesome scifi backdrop:
A 90-year-old trillionaire who uses his immense wealth for selfish reasons, to seek immortality for himself. Eat your heart out Warren Buffet.
Meaningless sex between unisex couples.
A gay robot with a malicious agenda and more personality than all the humans around him combined..
Fawning, scaredy cat engineers, scientists and technicians. These are the best Earth has to offer?
The actors are all just so many talking heads reciting their lines like robots. The script gives them no arc, no personality and precious few emotions. The people are shallow, petty, selfish, ignorant and pedantic.
And you wonder why the alien giants who created us millennia ago now want to obliterate the human race from the cosmos?
Good riddance.
