a footnote

Rating: 1/10 (23 July 2016)

I disliked this film when it was first aired for a catalogue of reasons too long to enumerate. I am happy to note that at least 10% of the negative reviews (those I've skimmed) have covered the majority of the annoying/infuriating deficiencies therein.
As a convinced Atheist and lifelong lefty (complete with schisms such as support for nuclear power and conscription,) I have found myself repeatedly crestfallen when faced with the reality that the writers/producers/stars of this dreck seem hell-bent on representing me (and those like me) and my views in fiction. The closest analogy I can think of, tipsy on a Saturday night, is a Bosch painting pretending to be 20th century photo-realism.
So I come to the punch line: during my second run (ongoing) I noticed Jodie Foster's line (paraphrased) "He (my father) died when I was nine." Later, faced with the John Hurt character's incredibly pointless video-backed biography, we see her birth date as August 1964 and her father's death as November 1974. She was 10.
So an army of gophers making a movie about science can't add & subtract tiny numbers.
So much for Ivy League brains and associated superiority complexes.