If I were to summarize this film in one sentence, it would be "a devastating loss on all fronts." I always repeat the same thing: screenplay is what makes a movie; the rest can help but will never save it if the screenplay is this bad, full of holes and most anticlimactic I've seen in years.
There are three fight scenes in this film, none of them anywhere towards the end. It started quite well, the visuals were great, but you can't slowly build a drama and then just stop halfway through. You might want to go for an artistic effect but it surely isn't what most of the public will expect and they'll be very disappointed. I certainly felt like I lost two hours of my life in one of the most meaningless ways possible and judging by the absolute quiet when the end titles rolled, so did the rest of the nearly empty IMAX cinema. And trust me, the Academy won't give out Oscars for this kind of "artistic effect" either.
Now, to some of the plot holes I mentioned: Why the hell does a trip from Moon to Mars take 20 days and the following one from Mars to Neptune just some 80 days? If there is some reason behind it it surely wasn't explained. Earth is 1 AU from the Sun, Mars is 1,5 AU from the Sun and Neptune is bloody 30 AU from the Sun!
And that's just one instance of the crazy timeframe and bent laws of physics. Also light seems to travel at very different speeds in this film when needed. You send a message from Mars to Neptune at a speed of light and expect answer within seconds? How? It will take over four hours for any beam to get there and the same for the response. How does an astronaut expect a reply within seconds and then, lo and behold, gets it?!
After this, I feel that mentioning the Pitt's magic body, that can withstand G forces nobody else can so the plot can send him floating through space and be unharmed by stuff moving at very different speeds, from spaceships to rocks, is nearly a waste of time.
Anyway, final verdict: good intentioned sci-fi with a great hype build around it deflated by incompetence of those in charge of making it. Two hours of my life lost, some ten dollars as well and I probably have to go see Downton soon to keep staying open to the prospect of wasting money by going to movies. 3/10
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