The story is the well worn tale of castaways reaching a destination against time and various challenges & adversaries.
It is so cliched that it may well have been written by a computer A. I. The story is so incompatible with logic, realism or probability , yet so full of the same old unconvincing ideas we've seen thousands of times , that is actually a painful experience for me to endure. Thank goodness for the fast forward button.. if I was in the cinema I would have left after 30 minutes.
This film is in the Jurassic Park mould of sciFi horror- basically a simple horror story made in the action genre. The sci fi trappings just allow lazy writing in dealing with the dilemmas faced.
Like many horror films the protagonist(s) in this just can't help doing the wrong thing, or doing the right thing the wrong way.
I lost count of the ceaseless daft actions and occurrences- whatever could go wrong does go wrong.
Here are just some glaring ones- Adam Driver's spacecraft has no warning or defence systems to detect or mitigate meteorites, asteroids and other space debris- it only notices a field of them minutes before impact. It doesn't alert the sleeping Adam, It then does an analysis of potential danger- ignores any danger; and 30 seconds later continues right into the middle of the meteorite field .... and says - 'warning UNEXPECTED meteor activity' after the first impacts.
Why has his craft only got one pilot and no other personnel ?
Why did the ship and meteorite make peculiar 'creaky door dinosaur sounds' during the impacts ...
When the cryogenics fail why doesn't the craft implement a retrieval process ?
Everything in the ships personnel apartments was colourless, and the many ships computer screens only had red & blue graphics.
When the meteorites teat a hole in the craft why doesn't it decompress / suck all the contents out into space? Why are the cryogenics units on the outside walls of the craft?
Adams character doesn't originally send a distress signal,deleting it instead... Then he goes off to kill himself.
He shows no humour or empathy with the girl- in fact his character is very peculiar. The story tries to mawkishly tell you why via his daughters video messages.
When you fall from a tree on your back you are winded and temporarily immobilised... the way he fixed his dislocation was unbelievable - as was the state of his wound and lack of attention to healing it.
He tells the girl to run when confronted with fast running 'dinosaurs'.
He takes no sleeping bags , tent, food & drink...toilet roll , insect net or replant ?
Nor his daughters video diaries, spare flash light (also never used to strobe & dazzle the creatures) or his suite & helmet.
The 12 kilometer journey (7 & a half miles) would take 4-8 hours depending on the terrain. If it was 12 miles as the crow flies then Adams computer should have estimated a more realistic distance.
When in the cave there's a tunnel they don't seem to have noticed when they set up camp. When attacked they retreat into the tunnel and a big deal is made of finding another exit- why ? Why not just wait until the threat outside moved on.
By this point I gave up counting and fast forwarded with subtitles.
It didn't matter what happened anymore- DEJAVU took over.
It is so cliched that it may well have been written by a computer A. I. The story is so incompatible with logic, realism or probability , yet so full of the same old unconvincing ideas we've seen thousands of times , that is actually a painful experience for me to endure. Thank goodness for the fast forward button.. if I was in the cinema I would have left after 30 minutes.
This film is in the Jurassic Park mould of sciFi horror- basically a simple horror story made in the action genre. The sci fi trappings just allow lazy writing in dealing with the dilemmas faced.
Like many horror films the protagonist(s) in this just can't help doing the wrong thing, or doing the right thing the wrong way.
I lost count of the ceaseless daft actions and occurrences- whatever could go wrong does go wrong.
Here are just some glaring ones- Adam Driver's spacecraft has no warning or defence systems to detect or mitigate meteorites, asteroids and other space debris- it only notices a field of them minutes before impact. It doesn't alert the sleeping Adam, It then does an analysis of potential danger- ignores any danger; and 30 seconds later continues right into the middle of the meteorite field .... and says - 'warning UNEXPECTED meteor activity' after the first impacts.
Why has his craft only got one pilot and no other personnel ?
Why did the ship and meteorite make peculiar 'creaky door dinosaur sounds' during the impacts ...
When the cryogenics fail why doesn't the craft implement a retrieval process ?
Everything in the ships personnel apartments was colourless, and the many ships computer screens only had red & blue graphics.
When the meteorites teat a hole in the craft why doesn't it decompress / suck all the contents out into space? Why are the cryogenics units on the outside walls of the craft?
Adams character doesn't originally send a distress signal,deleting it instead... Then he goes off to kill himself.
He shows no humour or empathy with the girl- in fact his character is very peculiar. The story tries to mawkishly tell you why via his daughters video messages.
When you fall from a tree on your back you are winded and temporarily immobilised... the way he fixed his dislocation was unbelievable - as was the state of his wound and lack of attention to healing it.
He tells the girl to run when confronted with fast running 'dinosaurs'.
He takes no sleeping bags , tent, food & drink...toilet roll , insect net or replant ?
Nor his daughters video diaries, spare flash light (also never used to strobe & dazzle the creatures) or his suite & helmet.
The 12 kilometer journey (7 & a half miles) would take 4-8 hours depending on the terrain. If it was 12 miles as the crow flies then Adams computer should have estimated a more realistic distance.
When in the cave there's a tunnel they don't seem to have noticed when they set up camp. When attacked they retreat into the tunnel and a big deal is made of finding another exit- why ? Why not just wait until the threat outside moved on.
By this point I gave up counting and fast forwarded with subtitles.
It didn't matter what happened anymore- DEJAVU took over.