Terrible writing

Rating: 2/10 (2 March 2014)

It seems the more Hollywood depends on CGI, the worse the writing becomes. Graphics should enhance the viewers experience, not fool them into thinking that fancy graphics are going to excuse one implausiblity after another.
What is wrong with this movie? Where to start.
OK, I love Jodie Foster and have respected her work in the past but her performance in this movie was inexcusably bad. She was feigning some kind of accent but we were never sure quite what. Maybe it's Elysianin? Let's just say it made everything she said truly bizarre. Personally I felt like she just realized what a dog this script was just trying to hold down the vomit reflex. "Hey. It's got cool graphics and I get to work with Damon too." Now Damon is in an all out fight for his life and he's got this super-cool rail-gun rifle that's awesome. So he beats this guy down with it, sort of knocks him out or something so what does he do? He throws down his rifle and runs to mourn the loss of his buddy who's way dead.
How convenient for the plot that the guy he beat down isn't dead and there are other bad guys not 50 yards away from him! "Hey. I don't need my only weapon anymore! I'll just throw it on the ground and go cry over this corpse over here!" As ludicrous as that was, the idiot writer had him do the exact same thing in the climatic scene of the movie! He's got his cool rail-gun rifle and kicking butt. He blasts open a door and then for literally no reason whatsoever just throws the rifle on the floor and leaves without it. Let's just assume that people in the 150 year future have handled the "Aw shucks. I'm out of ammunition" problem.
The movie of course doesn't let you know that that is the problem. And if that's what this juvenile writer is going with all I have to say is: "Really? Really? You don't think maybe some smart person will have solved that problem in 150 years? Really? Since only an idiot (of course this writer might qualify) would make that still the problem, we have to assume that the writer has made the hero an idiot, which pretty much makes the writer an idiot again.
But I digress. So the hero goes out on the platform where immediately he meets his nemesis where something like, you know, the rifle he just threw away would have come in really handy! Other ridiculous issues: 1) So they have this multi-trillion dollar space station yet they haven't figured out how to stop a few lightly armed transport ships from violating their space.
2) The relationship between our hero (Damon) and the woman is really bizarre. I think this is part of the problem with writers who rely on graphics to cover bad writing. They actually are incompetent writers and cannot figure out the nuances of real relationships. So they compensate with explosions and massive quantities of inane coolness.
Their relationship was supposed to be this huge childhood thing, yet when they met up years later, they were just cool if not cold towards each other. Strange.