Good movie, but not great movie, but great visuals

Rating: 8/10 (31 October 2013)

I just watched the movie this afternoon after all the reviews and the box office performance. It's a good movie, excellent, even amazing visuals when seen in 3-D, and the rebirth or the journey for birth allegory was nicely done, but I still feel unsatisfied.
The movie has amazing visuals, granted. But what if the story had taken place in a jungle: a woman lost and surviving, or being re-born in a jungle? Or underwater? or in a snowstorm? or in the middle of Alaska? etc. My guess is it wouldn't garner all the praises it has so far received.
In the end it's great visuals and good allegory. I'm disappointed because I expected more. If I rated this movie right after I watched it I'd have given it a 6/10, but I ended up giving it an 8. It deserves it: two main characters, great visuals, allegory, and it exposes science to the masses. But there are much better movies.
I'll tell you what though: 90 minutes, best in 3-D, in-shape lady dressed as sigourney weaver, Clooney to attract the non-science fiction geeks, and voila: more money for Hollywood. It's like popcorn at the movies for $6.25: it's completely absurd, but one of the greatest ideas ever.