America saves the world (again)!

Rating: 1/10 (22 October 2016)

I do not know how many more times that films like this can be made! I really ought to have known better when Michael Caine appeared in the films list of actors! Apart from, 'Get Carter' this iconic 'Landener' (aside from Ray Winstone) has done little of any note. A real definition of a 'one trick pony'. As for Hathaway... The robot! Puh-lees! When McConaughey first encounters it, I wondered exactly who or what he was talking to, then it became apparent to me that he was addressing the jerking slab of metal in front of him. Given that NASA had the technology for interstellar travel, could they have not come up with something a little more, well, 'humanoid'? This badly thought out, wisecracking, over sized 'cereal packet' was annoying to the nth degree and it didn't take much for me to imagine the Chuckle Brothers lying on the floor moving its 'legs' in order to make it 'walk', "To me, to you...", that kind of thing! Wheels, anyone? The space suits. What was all that about? I reckon that my local bargain store could sell something more substantial in appearance! Add to this, the Father In Law who seems permanently bemused, a doofus, idiotic Son and a whining, brattish Daughter and it's really little wonder that I'm taking this film to my local charity shop! Had I have been McConauhey's character, I would have been only too pleased to get on the rocket and once in deep space, murdered the entire crew, taken a sledgehammer to the annoying robot and then jettisoned the entire lot out of the airlock! Peace would reign! This film wasn't so much released as it escaped!