A great achievement in mediocrity

Rating: 3/10 (11 June 2007)

This film succeeds in three ways. The first: you can smuggle a sci-fi plot onto the big screen if you put enough A-list actors and big money behind it and use the leftover music from Bad Boys 2. The second: You can totally destroy a sci-fi script if you load the production with A-list actors in a vain effort to pass it off as a mainstream film. Thirdly and most importantly, if you are an aspiring filmmaker or screenwriter, you have hope. This was reported the biggest "spec" script ever picked up by a studio for seven figures and it's not that good, although there are some interesting plot elements. One can only hope that merely decent writing can do even better. This film has so many needless visual elements and effects it's comical. If I didn't know any better, this film was made as a writing lab exercise for film students to learn what NOT to do in film-making. The dialogue is laughable. There are two lines in the film that the entire movie seems to be written around. Once again, as destiny prevails, a sci-fi film will never win an Oscar.