rubbish!!!

Rating: 1/10 (15 February 2014)

I feel I must help bring the rating of this movie down to an appropriate level. This is some serious rubbish. The narrative stinks big time and the premise is utterly ridiculous.
The story goes something like this: Earth was attacked by a bunch of alien spaceships. Earth destroyed the alien fleet. Fifty years has passed. No sign of the aliens since that time, in fact they seem to be living peacefully in their own solar system. No attempts have been made to communicate with them. Nonetheless the humans consider themselves at war. They build an enormous space fleet and for some unexplained reason they need children to pilot the ships. The kids are trained in a luxurious space station which astonishingly seems to have only three adults on board. The kids train by playing elaborate strategy games (this part feels very much like the Harry Potter movies).
Even though there's no evidence to suggest the aliens are about to attack, the humans decide they must immediately and desperately assault the alien planet. Somehow we now have the technology to go pretty much instantly to foreign solar systems. The earth fleet attacks the alien planet in a battle that is incredibly brief and a huge anti-climax. The humans destroy the entire planet using some unbelievable super weapon (seems like the humans are the bad guys in this film). When the protagonist realises what he has been a part of he walks outside of the command headquarters (which is situated on some vague planet whose location is never really made clear). Incredibly only a few metres away from the human base is an alien, who has been hanging out in a ruined ship for fifty years without being noticed. The alien gives the protagonist an egg with the potential to rebirth the alien race. Despite being essentially a manipulated pawn, the protagonist is rewarded spectacularly for his role in the so-called war. He is given his own spaceship to search the galaxy for a suitable planet to hatch the egg.
Harrison Ford must have lost his mind to get mixed up in such a truly ridiculous storyline.
The only win here is the special effects.