Amazing Effects - Terrible Otherwise

Rating: 4/10 (5 May 2019)

The views of Earth from space are fabulous and the special effects that enabled the cast to float about are great. Its everything else that lets it down.
The soaring music telling me how to feel and the contrived inclusion of a dead daughter to get me rooting for the protagonist are not necessary. Nor is the 'added' tension of having a clueless rookie who needs to use an instruction manual and the tried and trusted 'eenie, meenie, miny, moe' method of flying space craft. The situation and backdrop of the planet Earth is quite dramatic enough and it's such a shame that it wasn't the entire focus rather than Hollywooding it up with unnecessary extras.
And why did the George Clooney character have to go on about eye colour? I found his flirting disconcerting and his questioning of her personal life back on Earth whilst they're floating through space preposterous. And of course he has to be the one who, despite being dead, returns to spur her on to survive in a dream sequence. What a hero.
I wanted to like this film but it was just too daft to take seriously.