weak, implausible

Rating: 4/10 (27 October 2009)

I really don't understand all the positive reviews here. I came here at about 2/3 of the way through to see if anyone else thought it was a major stinker, but was surprised to see almost nothing under 8 stars. I didn't get anything even remotely philosophical about it, it's just some lonely guy slowly rotting (from...radiation? never mentioned), with a couple of hallucinations that crop up at the beginning but are never heard from again. He and the buddy hardly talk at all, no deep discussions, just some general snottiness, some collaboration, and then the end. Big wow.
So many inconsistencies: if he was still alive in the vehicle, wouldn't medical monitoring have picked that up? All that massive infrastructure, and no auto-tow-truck bot to go pull the vehicle out of the dust? And why an Indiana Jones warehouse hallway of cells? Why did the vehicle have brake lights? How would a vehicle headed for earth, designed to hold solid objects possibly not kill a man? Why would its temperature be expected to remain below lethal, why would it be expected to not hit so hard as to kill anyone inside? And when he climbed in, you could see the walls wobble like they were cardboard. And on and on. Sorry, I'm not being picky, but these things just jump right out at me. And only in one shot near the end did we see anything like the reduced gravity on the moon; when the vehicle moved, the object on the back swung along merrily.
And hey, let's just make all the inside door corners 45 degrees, that way we'll all know it's the future. So lazy.
Usually any movie reviewed on here, no matter how awful, will have a bunch of people going OMG best thing ever, but there are always at least a few people who can smell a stinker. For some reason everyone seems to think it's all that, and I really really disagree. I rarely want to check out of a movie before the end; wish I had never watched this at all.