Gets there in the end...

Rating: 6/10 (23 November 2016)

I really wanted to love this film, but found it wanting. All those glowing comments by reviewers that cannot have had much exposure to the classics or the work of Andrei Tarkovsky; to whom this is a clear homage. It just made me wonder what he would have achieved, had he lived past his 54 birthday. Then there are the nods to Christopher Nolan and Gareth Edwards and I really did not get the comparisons to Contact.
I struggled to suspend disbelief at the beginning as special effects were explained, not shown; wanting so hard to be a big picture. Glad I did persevere, still wondering how it cost so much to make. Sunshine; for example cost a fraction of this budget, mind you it did not surprise me Danny Boyles next film swept the Oscars.