Not good enough.

Rating: 4/10 (3 January 2015)

This film made three major scientific errors: you can't have visible light from a black hole, you can't have planets around a black hole and you can't-according to current scientific theory- have a wormhole anywhere near a solar system. Thats a lot of scientific mistakes. I think many viewers compared this film to the classic film '2001 A Space Odyssey'. I don't think its comparable. The fantastic elements of 2001 were based on superior alien technology rather than never seen before because it can't exist natural phenomena. The film attempts to make up for its total lack of viable science by using some slick space ship designs, some unusual planets and some well known actors-quite a few of them in fact. It made me think of what a crook played by John Leguizamo said in the film 'Assault on District 13': 'its fascination politics"-as in this film is about mesmerizing its audience with slickness but not really saying anything that is classifiable as decent science fiction. That the world might not be able to feed itself is possible- that they might one day say that the Apollo flights never happened is also possible-but I think even a star studded cast couldn't save this sleight of hand show of a movie. Its been running forever in a cinema downtown nonetheless. To me its kind of a sad movie in that it really isn't very good but plenty of people think it is.