Dreadful - easily as bad as Battleship

Rating: 1/10 (14 April 2014)

I'm sorry, but I am fed up with awful sci-fi movies from Hollywood. Formics? do me a favour. Un-original name derived from Formic ants. In the future we are not going to use children to fight. If the fate of humanity rests with one person shouting "fire" at the appropriate time, followed by "I need more time" "shields are down" or whatever, the we are doomed. Today, computers can defeat chess grand masters, jeopardy champions. Financial centres are run by machines trading faster and more accurately than humans. By the time we reach the technology of Enders Game humans going into battle will be a thing of the past. The actors best efforts to add some drama to a terrible script led to a randomly grimacing Harrison Ford and some terrible performances from the other actors. Space battles were done well, but done to death by Star Trek. It's time for Hollywood to stop aping Star Trek and Star Wars and come up with something original. It's not as if there is a shortage of good books to start with. How about "Stranger in a Strange Land", "Ringworld", "Have Spacesuit, will Travel" and thousands more. I hated this movie from start to finish. Dreary, boring, utterly predictable.