Brain Damaged Plot

Rating: 3/10 (7 October 2014)

If you aren't able to give this movie 1000+% of your attention while it is running, then don't even try to watch it. Even then, you will more than likely have a bad migraine at the end anyway. Unlike great sci-fi time travel/third dimension shows like the Back To The Future series that enable the viewer to follow some level of plot complexity well, this film forces the viewer to analyze and re-analyze every event ad-nauseum with the only result being severe progressive confusion.
When it attempts to "pull it all together" 10 minutes before the film's end, the many pieces of confused sub-plots and key events cannot be either: 1) Logically reconciled to better explain the overall plot up until that point, or 2) Explain clearly how or why Jack (Tom Cruise) ended up with Morgan Freeman instead of Julia in the alien mother ship, and how the bomb ended up with them when it was obvious that Kara could read Jack's vital signs and more, but not detect the presence of a large nuke? Of course, every sci-fi show has to have clones in it, doesn't it? What's worse is that even on my 50" plasma screen it was hard to tell (and I'm still not absolutely sure) that they were all clones of Jack and Victoria mounted in the wall of the ship. Other reviewers seem to be not remarking about the very end when Jack ends up back at his mountain shack and all live happily ever after with kids and all.
Bottom line is too late in coming, and too much left to the imagination of the already severely confused victim of this movie. A movie that makes any viewer with more than a room temperature IQ work this hard to be entertained isn't worth the time or the effort, even if it DID make sense at the end. Thank God this was on my cable premium channel so that I did not have to pay for it in a theater or as an On-Demand.
I actually felt bad that Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman put their names on this psychotic venture. I am a fan of Cruise for great performances in flicks like Born On The Fourth Of July, Rain Main, and A Few Good Men. Morgan Freeman deserves everyone's respect for all his great dramatic roles. So I guess he was fooled into showing up because they told him his character Beech had a "God-like" persona. Besides, George Burns could not return from the third dimension to play the part. Burns must should been the Director Joseph Kosinski's first choice, as they both live in some other dimension, or should I say reality or realm of sanity as in Joseph Kosinski's case.
I rated it (generously) at 3 stars only for some exciting and well executed visual effects. But these days, that criteria alone does not justify its existence.