Major disappointment

Rating: 6/10 (16 November 2014)

I didn't like it nearly as much as I hoped.
**** SPOILERS AHEAD **** The first 20-30 minutes were a great setup - earth dying, society turning its back on technology to focus on survival. Scenes reminiscent of the Dust Bowl, but then in the middle there's this modern ruggedized laptop computer. Wow. And having the girl be the scientific one was a very nice touch.
After that, it started to go off the rails. The sentry robot was preposterous. It was obvious which characters were going to die and in what order. The first spaceship launch was cool, showed two booster stages with immense fuel tanks. Then, once they're past the wormhole, the same ship is able to land on a planet with higher gravity, and take off, with no external fuel tanks? I just couldn't get into the "tesseract". As Neal Tyson pointed out, if he can make objects move that way, then why not just write his daughter a note? Wouldn't it be easier to fix what's wrong with the Earth rather than repopulate a different one? It reminded me of other movies, most of which I liked better: 2001, Deep Impact, Contact, Silent Running (early 1970's).
Finally, it was just too long. I kept looking at my watch, always a bad sign). Some of the science in "Gravity" was just as preposterous, but at least that one kept me interested.
I'll give it a C for effort, maybe a B-. And I really did like the part where the daughter is struggling on earth at the same "time" that her dad is fighting to survive on his planet.