I absolutely loved the film! It didn’t take long for me to realise that it was based on ideas from many other films, probably every science-fiction action movie ever made! For example planets and moons were manufactured (Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy), the moon was falling towards earth (Melancholia), it was left to “has-been heroes” to save the earth from the collision (Armageddon, Deep Impact), strange spiritual elements appeared to the heroes (2001: a Space Odyssey), there were evil Aliens trying to destroy the human race (Independence Day and many more) and there was a revelation about the origin of the human race (back to the Hitch-hikers Guide again!) I’m sure that I have not exhausted the list!
As well as the action in space there was plenty going on back in earth; government cover-ups, cute kids, disaffected teens, ex-wives and ex-husbands, car chases, self-sacrifice, elderly parent with dementia, flooding, tidal waves, earthquakes, gravity reversing etc.
The dialogue was so predictable that we could almost recite it along with the actors, and even someone who knows as little of science as I, could tell that the science was at best unlikely! None of this spoiled the film for me at all; I found it to be rollicking good entertainment. At the end I turned to James and said “That was great! There’s nothing that it doesn’t satisfy!” to which he replied drily “Apart from the laws of Physics!” which I thought was very funny.
When we got home I looked up Mark Kermode’s review of the film on YouTube, which was a very entertaining rant. He said that in his more than 30 years as a film critic it is the stupidest movie he has ever seen, and he even added, “My brain turned to sewage and was trickling out of my ear!” I think that after that review people will be flocking to see it!
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