A 3 hour long trailer...

Rating: 1/10 (31 October 2012)

The title says it all. As a viewer who didn't read the book the movie was an utterly nonsensical, unrelated chain of events pieced together in a total lack of coherency. The sad thing was after three hours of patience and expectations that this horrid parade of unrelated fragments (by the way, most of them are quite cheesy and cliché) would somehow connect the result was a ludicrous campfire scene on a distant planet where "old" Tom Hanks with an awful makeup was pointing out a blue planet -yes "a planet" among a star cluster- in the middle of milky way, in order to show where he'd come from... Speaking of the makeup, the work on "old" Hugh Grant's face was so amateurish that the poor guy had difficulty in moving his lips when talking.
Quite frankly, I've been always leery about sci-fi movies and this one was no exception. However, after seeing the cast, I was a bit optimistic that Tom Hanks, Halley Berry and other big shots would be careful about their reputation before undertaking any risk with their careers. I still think they are. It is quite possible that after reading the book (I'm giving them at least this much credit despite this shipwreck), they mentally connected all the gaps in the scenario with dotted lines and were duped into thinking that this was going to be a good movie. However, for someone who has no idea about the book the gaps are simply too large to bridge.
Despite the seemingly complex plot and background, I don't think that overall job in this movie was as difficult as C. Nolan's Inception. The latter did a wonderful job by tying all the loose ends very cleverly. The producers in this movie apparently thought that casting the same actors in different roles (with bad makeups) was enough to connect the events. In the end, however they failed miserably in narrating a coherent story.