Good not great

Rating: 7/10 (19 April 2015)

I love Sci-Fi movies but I like them believable if that is not a total oxymoron, so this was right up my street, what did I like, the start of the film was brilliant of an Earth ravished by failing crops and people battling against this plight and still carrying on a day to day existence, I think there was a movie in this alone. I enjoyed the cinematography the sound track and interesting story which at times gave a serious nod to Space Oddity. I also feel there is a movie to be made about when we contact an alien race without them wanting to conquer Earth about how we cope if things we believe in are shown to be false. Back to the movie what did I dislike, Matthew McConaughey mumbling his way through the movie maybe it's my English ears but I usually have the sound at 15-20 for a movie to try to decipher what he was saying we had the sound racked up to 80 so I guess the sound quality did not transfer to the small screen. The story I think was a bit to convoluted but overall a decent film if not a great film.