Visually appealing on the outside, but empty inside

Rating: 5/10 (5 May 2013)

As I sat through this 124 minute movie, I was thinking that my 16 year old nephew would really like this type of sci-fi flick, with chase/fight scenes which were meant to be used in a video game, without any interesting plot to come in the way of the action, but it's not even action packed, so no, he probably wouldn't enjoy it that much. Yes, I agree that visually this movie can be appealing to sci-fi fans, myself being one of them, but to others who look for some sort of reasonable plot, originality, or logic behind what's taking place, forget it. I suppose most of the $120,000,000 budget went to CGI and they just made up some plot to go with it. Maybe Hollywood is running out of ideas, as there are many recycled ones in this one, but they are certainly running out of good screen writers. Why is it so easy to blow the money on CGI but so hard to write a good story to go with it?