False promises, bad dialogue, tons of clichés

Rating: 2/10 (8 December 2016)

I realize that maybe 2/10 is pretty low score for a movie that didn't look all that bad, but let me talk about this. One of the most important things in a story is viewer's (or reader's) hook. This is done by promises. Often time books have prologue that shows a bit of the world and says "Here is what this world is about." and then starts and zero ground building up to the climax promised. In some ways the trailers of the movies are similar. What I hated most of all things about this movie is that its trailers promised sci-fi, action and adventure. Instead the movie delivered huge amount of drama. I am not saying that drama is a bad genre, but the biggest problem with this movie is that it promises a different thing. The trailer will bring people who want action into drama movie and they will hate it, while people who like drama wont think of watching this. I was one of these people. I expected Star wars and it was instead The bold and the beautiful. Next thing I want to talk about is the characters. Most of the characters seemed like copy of the same person. Every person from the children to elderly were like majors in psychology with twenty years of field practice. The children were not acting for their age. The leaders weren't teaching future heroes, but were acting as if the kids were slaves. This is why all the dialogues were extremely fake. There were no real motivations behind the actions of most people. Bullies were like that for the sake of the plot. Harrison Ford was firm and didn't allow insubordination because of the plot. The pilot that simply crashed his plane into the mother ship was master tactician for the sake of the plot. Everything felt like Deus ex machina with tons of clichés and characters that were copies of each other. The effects weren't bad at all and the sound wasn't bad either. However a movie cant get away with a good mark just because of that. After all before everything there has to be a good story and fulfilled promises. 2 out of 10 is a vote that comes mostly from the misleading, trailer. If I was promised drama and I came to watch this it may have came up to 5 or 6, but I wasn't.