Definitely not a new Space Odyssey

Rating: 5/10 (10 November 2014)

I really, really waited this film. I got nothing that I expected from other's reviews and scores.
Yes, it has some interesting pictures, it speaks about big issues, it gives you exciting moments, but after I left the cinema, I forgot what it was all about, because the mistakes and fails made me forget it. The biggest issue is that it is slow, and contrary to Space Odyssey, it is slow because it needs time to prove its own false truth. We need to accept that the guys who leave Earth are so stupid and non-professionals, that they can only make bad decisions. Nobody is such crazy to go down on a planet on which time goes so slow that the spacecraft above will burn lot of resources for 23 years while waiting the team to get back. A little boy can do a simple calculation, that going down and up needs more than one hour, so the remaining crew and station will spend a lot of time and resources. Much more than if they go to the other two planets. Still, they go down. And what the lonely guy does up on the station? Instead of putting the station into energy saving mode and going to sleep, he wastes the little resources they have. I see, so the director needed to spend all these resources and time to make the film more dramatic. However, contrary to this intention, from this scene, the film lost me. But there was an other contender earlier in the film which could have made me angry, but I noticed it only after this 23 years nonsense. Anybody can explain why a hibernation tank goes under a strange, dirty, concrete like something which is very much like some Eastern-European communist public bath's floor?! Is this science fiction? Or is this the Hostel? And it just can't stop. You are a scientist,right? You work from data, you trained to do so. There is scientific method, right? So when you get on an other planet and find a robot there in pieces, you just accept everything the man you find there says to you. You land on ice-clouds floating in the sky, but you accept that everything is fine here. You start to land your stuff on the clouds, however the resources to use is not on the clouds, but under. You notice nothing, right? What are you doing? And I should eat this and feel myself OK? The worst part? When love almost becomes law of physics. In the sixties, some kind of stupid philosophy could have been accepted. But now? Really? The girl, who has her own 'field of science', tries to explain to the others that they should go to her favorite planet because perhaps love is more than we see about it? Again: really? What more? Is it the dark matter holding the universe together?
This supposed to be science-fiction, right? OK, we found science, and it is fiction, but a 'new Space Odyssey' should give you visions. This film gave me a useless journey and a huge space-station around Saturn at the end. Is this the solution? An old man sent a dozen men through a wormhole only to train a girl who finally understands that a space station is the solution humanity needs?!
If you want to see this film, wait until you can watch it home on a boring Sunday afternoon. Don't waste your time otherwise.