It was never quite clear whether the dad caused the problem, found the problem or what I thought he was actually doing, trying to fix the problem.
I love space I love the concepts and I love thinking about it but this movie, while there are some pretty pictures, never was thought-provoking enough. There was never enough substance to really think about what if. So if I want interesting pictures of space I'll go to hubblesite.
And while the acting was good there wasn't enough substance in the characters or their 'tragic' plights to become emotionally invested in them or their purpose. It was rather blah. It felt more like, 'oh hey I need to go save the world from/with/in stead of my dad I'll be back after lunch.' Even the, 'hey your dad killed my family' didn't have enough staging and climactic build up to elicit any emotion. And the personal narrative throughout the film didn't really contribute much towards emotional investment during the film. I guess because of how it was done there just wasn't enough substance or presentation of the plight of the planet to elicit any emotion either.
And there was plenty of confusion. In the beginning the plot seemed simple enough. But some things were just whacked. Like how did the main character launch himself off of a whirling antenna array through space, through an astroid field with his 'Captain America shield' which would've stopped his progress. Only to perfectly land on his spaceship some hundreds of thousands of kilometers away? His suit jets? Also if you knew that your father so completely believed that what he was doing was right then you would've known he wouldn't have just suited up to go home with you. And when they were outside of the ship did he jettison himself away from his son or was he knocked away by some part of the ship? That part was confusing. Because if he had totally believed that his purpose was to find intelligent life elsewhere then he wouldn't have just gone outside of the ship and then committed suicide. He was pretty emphatic that he only cared about the mission and this purpose.
Overall I didn't leave the movie with a sense of awe for space, with a feeling a renewed faith in humanity, or even that I had spent my money well. I wouldn't pay to go see it again. I probably won't even see it again. It wasn't bad it just wasn't that good.
I love space I love the concepts and I love thinking about it but this movie, while there are some pretty pictures, never was thought-provoking enough. There was never enough substance to really think about what if. So if I want interesting pictures of space I'll go to hubblesite.
And while the acting was good there wasn't enough substance in the characters or their 'tragic' plights to become emotionally invested in them or their purpose. It was rather blah. It felt more like, 'oh hey I need to go save the world from/with/in stead of my dad I'll be back after lunch.' Even the, 'hey your dad killed my family' didn't have enough staging and climactic build up to elicit any emotion. And the personal narrative throughout the film didn't really contribute much towards emotional investment during the film. I guess because of how it was done there just wasn't enough substance or presentation of the plight of the planet to elicit any emotion either.
And there was plenty of confusion. In the beginning the plot seemed simple enough. But some things were just whacked. Like how did the main character launch himself off of a whirling antenna array through space, through an astroid field with his 'Captain America shield' which would've stopped his progress. Only to perfectly land on his spaceship some hundreds of thousands of kilometers away? His suit jets? Also if you knew that your father so completely believed that what he was doing was right then you would've known he wouldn't have just suited up to go home with you. And when they were outside of the ship did he jettison himself away from his son or was he knocked away by some part of the ship? That part was confusing. Because if he had totally believed that his purpose was to find intelligent life elsewhere then he wouldn't have just gone outside of the ship and then committed suicide. He was pretty emphatic that he only cared about the mission and this purpose.
Overall I didn't leave the movie with a sense of awe for space, with a feeling a renewed faith in humanity, or even that I had spent my money well. I wouldn't pay to go see it again. I probably won't even see it again. It wasn't bad it just wasn't that good.