Don't you hate to see good money wasted?

Rating: 5/10 (12 May 2010)

Well, actually, I hate to see bad money wasted, too, but you get my point. A lot of effort went into this film and it should have turned out better than it did. The SFX aren't too bad, and the sets look nice, but the primitive CGI is kind of obvious. The "weightless" scenes are also pretty glaring. (Take the lead from the Alien quadrilogy...don't show weightlessness if you don't have to.)
Unfortunately, there were a lot "clang" moments in this movie. If a ship and its crew travel to a place of utter "chaos," how could they come back in the condition that they did? I mean, chaos is, by definition, disorganization. It takes an awful lot of organization, the opposite of chaos, to accomplish what the ship (or the evil entity, or whatever) did. And what trained crew member, no matter how he feels, is going to think, "Oh, that must be my kid, who I know is actually 47 million miles away, running down the corridor of my sealed spaceship"? It's just hard to identify with the characters.
Other than that, it's kind of OK. Anderson does a pretty poor job of editing and you end up confused about where you are at anytime, but I attribute this to his wanting to keep the viewer disoriented.
Worth viewing, but it falls short of its potential.