2-Dimensional characters, laughably bad technically

Rating: 2/10 (24 June 2002)

I *really* hate this movie (however, I loved Deep Impact.) It's hard to know where to begin...
1. OK, we're all used to sci-fi movies having noise in the vacuum of space, but having two space shuttles dock with the space station from opposite directions while doing aerodynamic banking?!? C'mon!!! The poor suckers from NASA who let these clowns borrow their training facility are probably still cringing (or laughing) over that one!
2. Could Liv Tyler be a worse actress? At least she took a few more lessons before doing LOTR! At the end, when she walks off, smiling hand-in-hand with her boyfriend after her father's death, I only wanted to slap her.
3. Lest anyone think I'm picking on Liv Tyler, I would hasten to add that *all* the characters were cardboard sterotypes and a lot of the blame has to fall to the director and writers as well as the actors.
You expect something like "Plan 9 From Outer Space" to be bad, but spending this much money on something this bad with such available talent should be a crime!