Interstellar contact has never been so...dull.

Rating: 3/10 (27 March 2003)

Contrived, boring, contrived, childish, contrived sci-fi flick about meeting aliens and finding out...they're a lot like simple-minded Hollywood liberals!
What a surprise!
Personally, if I ever meet an alien, he better have something way more interesting to say than these inane platitudes, or I'm gonna punch him in the zzratch.
Did I mention this movie is contrived?
As stupid as the aliens are, the people are even worse. In a movie about aliens and interstellar travel and "wormholes" and the like, the behavior of the humans should not be the *least* plausible thing. Just a little tip for you filmmakers out there.
Along the way, we learn that Christians, conservatives, and people mature enough to worry about budgets are bad, while new-agey content-free religious types, research scientists, and annoying whiners with a sense of entitlement to other peoples' money are good.
Ha! Betcha didn't see that coming! In a movie, yet! How startling and original!
We also learn that CNN and other teevee "journalists" are easily bought, which is not a surprise at all.
Paradoxically, a realistic story about the possible effects of alien contact would have been infinitely more interesting than this dreary little Hollywood fantasy.
3/10