This movie needed Alan Rickman

Rating: 4/10 (2 January 2016)

To say that this movie was a disappointment would be to give it more credit than it deserves. Granted, I wasn't expecting to find myself watching Citizen Kane, but Pigs in Space would have given this pretentious load of drivel a run for its money. Rich people = bad, and so they set up camp in a luxurious space station, far, far above. Poor people = the downtrodden, and so they're made to stay on Earth looking enviously at the rich people above their heads. This movie probably has some pseudo-political message going on in the background, but sorry, if that is indeed the case, the millions spent on getting it out there went totally over my downtrodden head. And what I wouldn't have given to have seen Alan Rickman arriving on the space station just as things were heating up, and as he looked at the carnage around him, he'd shake his head before telling all who would listen: I'm off to the pub.