A tribute to human evolution...

Rating: 6/10 (28 October 2005)

The first impression i had from the movie was that the storytelling ruined the entire picture. The story of the movie is good, simple and functional, mankind finds a strange, alien artifact and sets off on a quest to get it. The problem is exactly in the the way the story is told. The movie has almost no dialog and compensates this with many scenes of "artistic" beauty that i found boring and almost useless. The characters have no real acting, with no background or personality traces, they're not charismatic in any way and you easily forget their names. Besides the linearity of the movie is somewhat strange, having no focus. Is this a bad movie?!, not at all, it's actually a good movie but it fails in the part that it could be entertaining. The scenes are extremely well filmed and you get the feeling the director mastered the art of movie making (just not the storytelling part). Unfortunately fails in some very important points. It's worth seeing one time, it's crazy seeing two times and it might bore you to death should you attempt to do it.