Boring, Irritating and Grating and that's just Foster.

Rating: Null/10 (16 March 2003)

I watched this at the time on the recommendation of a friend who said that it was awe inspiring and moving. He recounted how the whole audience at the Flicks sat there afterwards in stunned amazement. Now I don't quite know what happenned there - but for me it was a struggle to finish the film. Jodie Foster's continually grating presence as the "we must continue" figure drove me up the wall and to be honest I wished she had stayed on the foreign planet. Matthew McConnaghey was tragically below par and why did he do it? Perhaps the worst part of the whole film is that sequence on the other side. If they had left it out, there might at least have been a did it happen / didn't it scenario, but with the film dictating your thoughts as to the outcome is transcended to absolute tripe. If you want to watch Jodie Foster watch Anna and the King - at least it will give you a laugh!