Mathew and the Amazing Multi-Dimensional Bookshelf

Rating: 5/10 (18 November 2014)

I looked forward to this space epic, and we planned for the IMAX experience to get the full vista of ooh aaah eye popping visuals this movie was promising.
What did we get instead?
Mathew Mcconnehay crying a lot.
A multi-dimensional bookshelf (!?!)
An evil Matt Daemon who pops out of nowhere and just as quickly blows himself up
The LUDICROUS notion that NASA would even entertain the idea of relocating Earth to a planet system dangerously close to a black hole.
The IMPOSSIBLE achievement of navigating the event horizon of a black hole, because, "This one is a SOFT black hole...." WTF????
This movie is remarkably similar to 2001, in that: - It is WAY TOO LONG and in serious need of editing. - It involves special things happening near the outer gaseous giant planets. 2001 was Jupiter, this movie, it's Saturn. - It involves the lead protagonist going into a surreal other dimension that possibly involves aliens, with crazy visuals that feel more like a drug trip than a real experience (for an excellent job on a far more realistic looking experience, that would be the end of Contact when she navigates the alien trans-galactic wormhole transit system) - It promises outstanding space visuals, and then gives us precious few, spending most of the time on dusty earth watching people cry. - It has an ominous robot who you are not quite sure of until the end. The robot however is RIDICULOUS, looking like a BLOK character and completely impractical. Perhaps they could have used a suped-up version of the new NASA robot, which is very cool?
Very disappointed with this flick, and with the writing for Mathew's character, who could have been much better. What the heck Matt Daemon was doing there, I have no idea.