Tired, clichéd, absurd

Rating: 1/10 (12 June 2016)

Am I getting bored of watching films or are films getting worse? I made it through about 40 minutes of this one but it was all I could take. The script is ridiculous and I felt I could sense the actors' disbelief at the nonsense they had to say. Michael Caine looking McConnaghey seriously in the eye and saying "They called you here" "Who's they?" A mysterious but caring smile from Caine. Oh god, make it stop!
Some minute gravitational changes in McConnaghey's daughter's room make a binary pattern that when converted into decimal (how does he know where the boundaries between digits are??) gives map coordinates to the location of where NASA are working on a ship to take McConnaghey to the aliens. And somehow the ALIENS figured out to create this signal to initiate this causal chain?? What are the chances that Mc would:

NOTICE the gravitational field?

think it was worth converting the numbers to binary (why would he??)

think that these numbers are map references (he'd have to be mentally deranged for this possibility to occur to him)

LOOK UP the map references

DECIDE TO GO TO THE LOCATION THE MAP REFERENCES POINT TO

Do you get my point? Are you kidding me? This movie stinks to high hell.
It is yet another example of terrible, terrible screen writing for undiscriminating audiences that have been raised on a diet of pappy effects and vague 'ooh how amazing' nonsense a la Lost, instead of strong story-telling and characterisation. Oh well. Perhaps I'm just getting old.