A Movie Pretending to be Intelligent

Rating: 4/10 (29 June 2013)

This movie pretends to be intelligent but is not. It is full of plot and factual holes. There are too numerous so I will just address the most glaring ones. First, the most glaring 'factual' hole: the 'first public TV broadcast of 1936 cannot possibly have reached Vega and responded to by the time-frame the movie is set: as of now the signal has barely entered the outer-limits of the solar system!!! Now the most glaring plot hole that seems to have so far escaped any mention: the machine in Hokkaido is NOT one time use only machine--why didn't anybody after the Jody Foster character get on the machine and verify what she said was indeed what actually happened? Was the damage to the chair assembly (caused by the character's getting off to retrieve the necklace)too severe to be repaired???? Come on, it does not make sense.