If only Ridley had made it instead

Rating: 5/10 (18 March 2017)

There are plenty of SF movies as implausible as this that I can get around and love, that's not the problem. Nor is the cast, the acting, most of the script, the set decoration and art direction, the very good use of locations, much of the photography, even the sound design and VFX.
What sucks is the direction. The editing that chops half the scenes into mayhem. The added mayhem in general. Too many car crashes when a near miss would do. Cars flying through the air when a simply collision would do. Oh my god the rescue scene, with helicopters so low they are about to run into boats, and boats speed through the water apparently to chop up survivors. Don't even get me started on the explosion. So filmy fire laden, unlike anything real and not at all like the very, very, very specific description and diagrams of the explosion shown on screen!
Music is also overbearing all the time, ruining most scenes with any emotional content by yelling at the audience THIS IS TOUCHING! THIS SCENE IS ALL FORESHADOWING!
Really disappointing, as the story is quite interesting and maybe was even filmed enough someone could edit it into a good movie. But this is a total hack job. Urgh.