It's good but Carl Sagan did the idea 35 yrs ago

Rating: 6/10 (5 January 2015)

Spoiler Alert
For those of you who remember Carl Sagan's Cosmos 35 years ago you may, like me, have guessed the plot at the beginning i.e. who was behind the bookcase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPoGVP-wZv8&feature=youtu.be
That aside it's a good film with some excellent effects. Matthew McConaughey mumbles to the point where he was difficult to hear some of the time and the point at which he is accepted willy-nilly as a pilot for the waiting craft is painfully weak.
But apart from those quibbles it was all very decent film: sort of The Abyss meets Sixth Sense meets Gravity.