science FANTASY FICTION

Rating: 5/10 (26 December 2015)

I watched this at home via Netflix. I'm certain it would have gotten another star on the big screen. It was made for it.
I enjoyed the first two hours of this movie and plenty of others have already given their accolades so I won't. On to the complaints.
Lots left to the imagination (mostly key plot elements) but if they had filled in the blanks this would have been an 8 hour movie.
Lots of motives left unexplained. For this type of movie there's no excuse for that. The amount of action apparently didn't leave much time for it.
The last 40 minutes or so looked like an alternate ending for 2001 A Space Odyssey. I half expected our hero to look in on an old himself in a hospital bed but it wasn't quite that bad. Still, by the end, we were making 2001 jokes.
Good beginning - well executed - lots of action - disappointing ending. Would I recommend it? Not really.