Ridiculously overrated

Rating: 5/10 (8 November 2013)

So I watched this movie today after reading a lot of reviews on IMDb telling me that I surely won't be disappointed. I have not read any of the books so I went in head-first to a movie I knew nothing about, a move I would soon come to regret. Before I start with some spoilers (nothing too major, just some of the things that annoyed me the most but read at your own will, I'll give the warning beforehand) I must say that the graphics were awesome. But if graphics alone are what gives this movie such high ratings, then IMDb is nothing more than a shallow site full off shallow people only caring about good graphics, completely disregarding any lack of plot (or seriously nonsensical such).
*THIS FOLLOWING TEXT CONTAINS SPOILERS*
Don't get me wrong. I love the premises of the story. The beginning of the movie is superb. We have the brainy kid as our protagonist. The way he handles issues are inspiring. Even I wish I had some of that thinking process he has. But then we have the completely useless adults who must rely on kids to handle the "complete annihilation of mankind". And still, it is the adults that build these awesome spaceships. Are you kidding me? You mean to tell me that I have to believe that kids are our weapons, that adults are useless, EVEN WHILE the adults built those overly over-the-top spaceships but cannot come up with a single strategy to save their asses but have to rely on kids to their work? Like it took that much of a strategy to do what the kids did? Give me a break.
A thousand words are not enough to describe how ridiculous the plot is. But all I can do is to try to sum it up in a couple of words: Ridiculous, drawn-out, nonsensical, stupid. It more or less feels like they put a couple of scripts together and added some nice graphics.
5/10 even feels like a bit too much, but the beginning was good.