Good with some reservations about modus operandi

Rating: Null/10 (18 December 2009)

I think most SF fans will give this film a 10 out of 10. It is an amazing film...but in a way it is also a disappointing one. I say disappointing because the budget was huge and the amount of time spent on it was also huge...so with guidelines like that making a bomber would be probably impossible. I think it is also disappointing because it relies almost exclusively on special effects to make its story or plot function. I think special effects should be not the thing a movie revolves around, they should compliment the story-not be the story itself. The film leaves a powerful emotional charge in its wake which is an indication that the director was trying very hard to create something interesting-but as someone who is familiar with SF and artists in general, I can say that the filmmaker has borrowed heavily from the artwork of Yes album cover artist Roger Dean for inspiration in this films striking visuals, as well as the written works of Anne McCafferty, who wrote the Dragonsinger series of SF-Fantasy books. It is a great film, but how could it not be when a filmmaker can have such a huge budget-no time limit, and a world of amazing creative people to draw ideas from. The hard SF tech in this film looks like it fell out of both a Terminator film and an Alien sequel...go get 'em James Cameron.