very weak sci-fi offering

Rating: 3/10 (15 January 2017)

When there's a consensus that something is really good, I can usually find the good in it. That is not the case with this clunker. I do not know what this movie is about. I mean, what it's ABOUT. Time? Well, it talks about time. It took up some of my precious time. I know they want me to think it's profound. But I just didn't see any THERE there. It's supposed to be about the arrival of aliens. I think this is also reaching towards being about memory. Yet it doesn't have anything important to say about that either. It does do one thing that I hate 99% of the time, and maybe this is what the movie is really about: flashbacks. Since this is the cheapest trick in TV - and even some movie franchises are built around them, maybe the idea here was just to make a movie about that and write a story about an alien landing around it. Nothing really happens in this barely moving movie anyway. What a clunker!