disappointing, boring, cheap

Rating: 6/10 (31 March 2018)

One day I asked "scifi movie releases 2018" and this came up, nice poster, scifi, natalie portman and oscar isaac... hell yeah!
It gave me expectations but failed to deliver real hard.
Visually it's kinda interesting but you can see it's a small production as every trick in the book is used to compensate for the cheap CGI... over saturation, weird blurs... overall very CGI looking CGI. Some things look good, the "universe" in itself looks good but to me, it was wayyy too far behind what our eyes are used to these days. A good way to sum up the visuals would be: Avatar fanfiction.
The plot is almost original but it's nothing new and feels like déjà vu. They built the film in the "let's interview the survivor" way, which imo spoils a lot of itself! Really a bad decision. Plus it feels rushed and the all female cast is questionable. The argument is "we only sent male military crews, now, we'll send a female scientist crew!"... How about... a military crew escorting scientists? Instead of giving a bunch of PhD females an assault rifle that they clearly can't use.
I wanted to make a "soundtrack" part but I don't remember a single one so, either there's no music, either it's forgettable. I think there's no music which is fine for this kind of movie but when you have soundtracks like Bladerunner 2049, Interstellar, Dunkirk even... you can't help but think that something is missing.
Anyway, in the end it feels like a small production that Natalie Portman has to carry on her shoulders for 100min. There are interesting and disturbing moments but it's a bit boring and the characters don't help you like this movie.
It it was released in a cinema and I had paid 10$ to see it, my note would probably be even lower.