Apollo 13 meets Armageddon

Rating: 4/10 (20 April 2015)

I judge this film a lot more harshly because I found the first half to be an interesting, well thought out and logical plot. Non of which can be said for the second half. It was like the writer got bored, said, OK that's enough, left the draft on his desk, and his six year old, finished it of in crayon. I can only assume the actors only read the the first half as there are some big names here.
The second half falls apart by suffering a complete breakdown of logic and common sense. Early on the science makes sense, moves the plot along and works within the recognised parameters of the film universe. After they reach the other galaxy, I spent half the time face palming over the ridiculousness of the things these people were saying and doing. It was like I took drugs half way through, that's the only thing that explains my watching experience.
Some fan is going to do a fan edit at some point, and then this film might be worth a second watch. At 2 hours 50 minutes, there's plenty of places to cut, which leads to another point. Despite the slow start and pace of the first half, it was the ridiculous unbelievable actions scenes towards the end, that were so out of touch with reality that I got bored and started clock watching.