99 Percent Great - 1% Very Bad

Rating: 8/10 (18 February 2014)

First off, there is not a spoiler alert that will say any details about the movie that gives away much of anything. At 71 years old, and having watched SCI-FY movies starting at age 8 and am not only a huge fan, but though I have watched tons and tons of other types of movies, all of them added together would not equal the number of SCI-FY ones I have watched. I love, love, love SCI-FY.
When I discuss a movie with someone, I like to talk about the different elements such as special effects, story line, dialog, cinematic photography and so on. But I also like to talk about how I feel things should have been done different, and possible better choice of certain actors, and other details and normally the reviews do not cover.
As with many good movies there is so much to talk about that to even begin to cover things would require more time than the movie. This is for sure one of those cases so I won't even start.
The movie is a superb SCI-FY movie. I have no problems with the characters, or the special effects, or the acting, or dialog or almost all other components/elements of the film.
Thus for one very small part of about 4 minutes of film to drop my ratting to an 8 is very unique and very rare. In fact, very, very rare.
When one watches SCI-FY they have to open their mind to the point of believing that almost anything in the future is possible. Granted there are some things that seem almost impossible. That sometimes becomes a real problem for many for us that love SCI-FY, even super love the genre.
A problem in this for sure is how the aliens could do what they did - but I won't get into that as that little problem is nothing compared to the much bigger problem.
I know you are expecting to see what that problem is here, but that would be too much of a spoiler. I will say that for those that read this, they may well figure out how to identify the problem before they see the movie, but I would advise them to see the movie anyway.
One hundred and ten minutes of the movie is excellent. So 4 minutes is not all that much for bad, but was enough to drop my rating down to an 8 (probably would have given it a 10 otherwise). I see that almost 75,000 have already voted on IMDb and it has a rating of 6.9. I can't help wonder if the 4 minutes were not there or were changed significantly, the ratting might not be an 8 or higher.