District 9, without the bugs...

Rating: 4/10 (18 October 2015)

Whenever fairly big name stars get conned into a mediocre project their portrayals always seem strained, like they really need to visit the bathroom quick? That was certainly the case here. Jodie Fosters presentation looked more like "When will this disaster be finished so I can go home", rather than what her character needed to make her performance believable. Matt Damon at least tried to deliver his dialog in some believable fashion, occasionally expressing some genuine emotion.
Or perhaps it is the theme and background to this story. It was delivered in the same inane way that District 9 was done, with about the same result...which is to say it had none. At least no coherent story to speak of. It is more of a collection of taped up scenes with no real direction in mind. Sure, there is a story or two in there somewhere, but they are buried with so much useless dialog and a bit of CGI thrown in that it is near impossible to figure out what happened to the world.
I thought I was being generous by giving it a 4 rating...