This film won awards! Why!?

Rating: 1/10 (15 October 2012)

Not only that, it was considered by some to be the best science fiction film of the year.
We are talking about the same film I saw last night. The same film with Aliens, plot holes and the ham-iest acting to be seen outside a butcher's window.
I began the movie with ambition. Maybe a sci-fi Mercury rising (I don't mean to say I thought Mercury Rising was a good film, only that I can imagine a sci-fi film based on the same idea working). I knew Cage had a huge tax bill, but, being open-hearted I thought hey, it's late, I've had a drink, why not?
But it's SLOW. That's OK, it's a slow-burner. It'll get good. And so I waited and waited.
And then aliens landed. Aliens. And, despite myself, and incidentally waking up my girlfriend, I laughed out loud. Awful. Mind you, it wasn't the first time I'd woken up my sonambulent partner during the film: there is a time shortly before Aliens that Cage catches his son automatic-writing, and Cage shouts:
"What are you doing?!"
Seriously. The whole premise for the film is that Cage works out the hidden meaning in the numbers written in a mad dash by a youngster. Not, incidentally, that that seems to have anything significant to do with the plot. But hang on, towards the end of the film, his son is writing unstoppably, surely this must have some meaning?!
No, he screws the paper up and throws it away. That's it. Nada.
I envy those who think this film has something to offer the modern audience. Maybe the film is a cynical as I think it is, pandering to the 'ooohhh, he and his son connect through sign-language, that isn't a cliché I've seen thousands of times before' audience, maybe it isn't. But, in the final analysis, for the laughs the conclusion of this dirge provokes, it isn't worth the wait.
Awful.