Nice Effects but the basic plot premise is pure B.S. Cruise Should Know Better

Rating: Null/10 (7 September 2008)

Reality Check! I think that responsible and intelligent film reviewers should make a clear distinction between the genres of "science fiction" and "science fantasy". The first genre occasionally produces an intelligent script based on what could theoretically be possible if human knowledge and technology continue to expand at the present rate. The second genre is a time-wasting mess of "fairy tales" (the sort of moronic drivel LRH specialized in) that could only appeal to or entertain flakes. If only our country's pathetic education system could somehow instill in the majority of students the two most basic laws of physics (the first and second laws of thermodynamics)we'd all get along a lot better. The brilliant physicist, Stephen Hawking, vainly tried to explain, in detail*, that the second law of thermodynamics makes it absolutely impossible to foretell the future - not even with the haziest accuracy. Even Scientologists acknowledge that cognitive thought has mass and energy; - ergo, human cognition must be subject to the laws of entropy. You can no more recall the future than you could travel to work today on gasoline or diesel fuel that have not yet been refined and would have to be derived from fossil fuels that have not yet even been been extracted from the ground! Three years before production began, Steven Spielberg assembled a team of sixteen future experts in Santa Monica to brainstorm out the year 2054 for him. These 16 "futurologists" came up with a city in 2014 where newspapers are still printed and delivered by hand, and there's a reference to the now defunct Radio Shack chain! Cuckoo! Cuckoo!
* Vide: "Brief History of Time"