Decent premise, middling execution, horrible waste of a character.

Rating: 6/10 (3 January 2014)

I would not recommend spending money on this movie. The basic plot line is sound and the core idea is excellent, but as other reviews note they screw it up by surrounding it with tropes and clichés all over the place. Up until the "reveal", I was engaged. After that, not so much.
The biggest issue I actually had with it was that after discovering and rescuing Julia, I was initially stoked for her character as being someone with some presence and command. In short, she seemed badass (selected for a secret space mission, sharp enough to stop herself being sedated moments after regaining consciousness, clear objective to retrieve the recorder). For a moment it looked like the character depth of the movie was stepping up and the whole thing would be more interesting.
But... if I remember right, after they retrieve the recorder, her only lines were basically "Jack!", "Jack...?" and "Jack -". As soon as she's played the part of supplying the recorder she turns into this foil for the main character to obsess over his past (while she looks on silently), gets shot just so that Jack needs to go to a certain place, and strips down to a tank top on a cold- looking windy landscape for no apparent reason. Since Jack apparently did not feel sweaty enough to even roll up his sleeves, it's hard to not feel like this was simply to provide a bit of sex appeal for the emotional scene at the binoculars, and lying prone in the cave. Lame handling of a really promising character and perfectly represents the film's total two- dimensionality.