Clooney does Brando!

Rating: 2/10 (7 April 2014)

very, very, very lazy movie. 10 word storyline. no imagination. no acting. no attempt to build character. steals sound-bites and snapshots with abandon from many other space/sci-fi movies, not as homage, but because they couldn't think of anything original or different to the same old stuff - a cut and paste of 50 years of space without any context. minimal it is, but minimalist it is not. the pretence of reality totally dispels any illusion of sci-fi or reality. there is sadly nothing positive here and yet another Hollywood computer cranked big budget flop in all respects, save box-office. it seems to me the intent by the producers is to prepare audiences for even worse to come. if you lose the odd bit of swearing in the first 15 minutes or so it plays OK for the under 9s, but even for this age group there are so many more films that inspire imagination and wonder.
Oscars........? ........more like Emperor's new clothes.