Somebody's been watching 2001 and possibly 2010!

Rating: 7/10 (10 December 2014)

Difficult not to have any spoilers reviewing this movie, but rest assured. The movie is not bad at all, specially that these days there are so much crap out there that win multiple Oscars, that makes this movie really worth watching. However it is a mixed bag of goodies (as always). for one it does have a core story, inspired heavily by 2001 a space odyssey and 2010 (the parallels are unmistakable), but it also has many scenes that I believe were just shoved in to make it more commercial and fantastic, but completely immaterial to the story. This makes for an almost 3 hour movie. In the hands of the right editor, could have been 100 mins without loosing any continuity or harm to the story. It is jam-packed with factual errors too, but unavoidable when you make a science fiction movie that occurs in our universe! say in Star-trek universe anything is possible, but not when a Texan space-pilot is at the helm in a not too distant future. Acting is good, specially of McConaughey , but please send him to a speech therapist! in the first 45 mins of the movie, I could not understand half of his mumbling. Direction is good too, music is good too, although in the last half hour of the movie I could swear, they were playing Phillip Glass music. Watch it, enjoy it, but you'd wish you had taken your remote with you to fast forward some irrelevant bits. A 2001 beater? not in this universe!