Pretty but Vapid

Rating: 4/10 (22 December 2013)

Sterile and passionless if occasionally visually interesting. An utterly derivative and mostly stupid mishmash of worn-out tropes and assembly- line Hollywood plot modules. I was never able to summon interest in the activities or fates of the characters, most of whom behaved as robotically as the moronic alien supercomputer.
The sci-fi aspect is particularly bad, as not a single piece of it makes a lick of sense. Invading the Earth and stealing our oceans for the bloody deuterium is just stupid. There is a LOT of hydrogen and oxygen out there in the universe, and of all the things that make our beautiful planet special the isotope ratio of our water is not one of them.
Additionally, the dramatic pauses really got to me. The action sequences are littered with them. Especially the end scene where Jack futzes around with his magic nuke bomb while monologuing made me sigh.