Not great

Rating: 4/10 (15 June 2015)

The initial trailers made me think this was going to be bad, but it was actually worse than I even expected. I like Chris Pratt and he's decent in this, but the script is absolutely atrocious. There's no sense of purpose to anything happening or the filmmaking, other than to remind the audience of other far better movies. There are homages and nods to Spielberg's prior filmography and I picked up a little Hitchcock influence, but this film doesn't pair these allusions or inside jokes with anything marginally original. The CGI is good but with such a poor script, two dimensional characters and no real vision the film just goes nowhere and ends with a laughable conclusion. It's basically a glossy extended Mercedes commercial. Don't waste your money!