Pointless and boring

Rating: 1/10 (30 March 2020)

The film doesn't seem to know what it wants to be. Does it want to be factual? Does it want us to care about the characters? Well, it's a bit of both, and it fails in both ways. These characters are not one bit likable. I didn't care about them one bit, in any of the scenes. And as for the historical accuracy... I never had a clue what they were doing as they encountered technical problems. We have endless scenes of people looking worried about something, but I had no clue what was going on. And I didn't care, because I never liked the characters. And here is the final problem: we know they made it safely back, so there is no suspense. The only way they could have made it work was to make us really like the characters. But they never even tried. Zero for effort. Oh, and Bill Paxton was so wrong for this film. He belongs in B movie trash. As for Tom Hanks... Have you ever seen a more pathetic and emasculated figure trying to be a hero in every movie?