Extremely disappointing, lacking plot, however visually appealing

Rating: 3/10 (14 September 2013)

Being a die hard sci-fi fan and having read very positive reviews of this title I was very optimistic about the movie. Unfortunately I was extremely disappointed to the extent that I was actually waiting for it to end.
There are several flaws with the movie. First of all, there is no plot or whatsoever. Yes, there is a series of events that create a story, but by no means can this be treated as a plot. Scene to scene, event to event there is no coherence nor suspense. The movie fails dramatically at making you care about the story. Also, there are terrible plot holes - most of most important events in the movie don't make sense at all or are totally implausible.
There are also things in the movie which are simply really stupid. don't get me wrong - I love sci-fi and I'm perfectly fine with lasers, teleportation and/or time travel. However seeing an orbital station with no roof and "atmosphere" which is, say, 50m thick, with no shield or so I just get annoyed for being treated like an idiot by director.
Secondly there are terrible "romantic" and "emotional" scenes which, honestly, were so bad and pretentious that it hurt. Bad acting, shallow and stiff dialogs made every attempt of director to make you emotional unsuccessful if not annoying.
Thirdly the acting is poor. Matt Damon is emotionless and resembles one of the droids he's fighting, Jodie Foster's character is extremely campy (so is Krueger) and cliché. What's more - the characters are not well constructed, remaining one dimensional and shallow making it virtually impossible to care for what's happening with them.
This altogether makes the movie really boring. I was impatiently waiting for the plot to finally become complicated and the master plan revealed. When I realised that this is not going to happen I should have left the cinema.
There is one good side of the movie - the visual effects. Unfortunately it's not enough to save that movie.
This was one of the biggest time wasters I've lately watched - definitely the movie is hugely overrated summer blockbuster.Don't watch, unless You really, really have nothing better to do with your time.