Average movie but an interesting observation.

Rating: 3/10 (22 December 2005)

I thought this movie was very average but one thing I found interesting was how the astronauts had their respective country's national flag on their shoulders. Sam Neill's character was supposed to be Australian and I noticed that the flag he wore actually had the Aboriginal flag on it where the Union Jack should have been. This was an interesting bit of forward thinking by the film's creators as there has been talk for many years that the flag should be changed so it doesn't have the Union Jack, so as to show our removal from colonial Britain. This film was set around the year 2050 I think and the creators must have thought our flag would be changed by then with Australia deciding to honour our nations original inhabitants. I thought this was very well done and was especially surprised to see something like this in an (I assume) American film.