OK, but only just

Rating: 4/10 (1 December 2013)

As an ordinary film fan I was really looking forward to this movie - the idea of the story about an Earth that was cactus and an orbiting utopia seemed really appealing, and that's largely where it stayed.
Jodie Foster's character was ill-conceived and her accent (whatever it was supposed to be) was very detracting from her performance. Surely someone must of realized in the first few scenes that it was a shocker and would have been better just to have canned it.
Overall I found the movie to be quite disjointed with story-lines either glossed over, thrown in, or dumped completely. Maybe if the movie had been longer than a lot of the story could have been fleshed out some more. The CGI was impressive and there were a couple of humorous scenes in the movie.
This movie is one worth watching when there is nothing else to do, but its unlikely that you'll watch it again.