Worth watching, although it could have been better

Rating: 7/10 (2 October 2009)

Nowadays, it seems that the attention threshold for the average movie viewer is so high, that directors think they need to rip planets apart in order to be noticed by a wider audience. The movie is without doubt dynamic, with lots of good special effects and tense moments which will grab your attention until the end. But it has some usual Hollywood clichés: over-dramatization and shallow and unrealistic characters (Who writes those silly characters anyway?). The scientific background is mainly credible, there are no screaming misconceptions, like in other modern "doomsday" movies. Of course, there are many strong fantasy elements, which can be hardly called scientific, but make the story interesting. I was left with the impression, that with so much effort, money and good actors in this movie, it could have been much better.(like the 90% of other Hollywood production today). With just a bit more intelligent storytelling, it would be probably harder to understand for "the masses", but it could be a great movie. Instead of that, it has a somewhat mediocre feel about it, although a few memorable scenes and interesting ideas make it definitively worth watching.