Rob Kurtz

The biggest problem with this movie in general is execution. The premise of the story is fine. The general ideas are fine. However, the actual execution of how the story unfolds is boring and and clunky. The acting is awful, and I don't blame it on the actors so much as direction. It seems like none of the actors had any idea what kind of film they were making. Anyhow, the CGI is janky. The science is laughable. I mean, an entire space agency has apparently never heard of Relativity and time dilation? Come on. Information is presented to the audience as if we are complete idiots. I understand why the people who enjoyed this movie do so, for the premise of it. But again, the execution is so shoddy that it detracts so much from the over-arching concept as to make the whole film almost unbearable to watch. I kept waiting for the movie to hit it's stride, or find a moment that redeemed the flaws, but it never came. Very underwhelming and poorly made.

The story is overly simple, as devoid of substance as the landscape. The acting is serviceable I suppose, and there's nothing noteworthy to mention about it. There's no character development to speak. It's almost an odd sort of accomplishment though, how every single character is such a textbook example of being one-dimensional. That was just a lot of words to say the movie is boring. On top of that though, is the offensively egregious use of long, lingering shots that don't serve the story at all. I mean, you could probably skip at least 30% of this film and not miss a thing. It's not *that* the shots are long that's the problem necessarily, it's that they don't serve a purpose. So what you end up with is a story that's not all that engaging to begin with, and whatever immersion you might have had is thrown out the window as you're constantly thinking to yourself, "get on with it already!" as the camera zooms out meaninglessly on a barren landscape or whatever for a full minute. Then rinse and repeat for the next scene.