Unspectacular

Rating: 6/10 (10 April 2013)

Yes it is a bit of a turkey.
Great scenery and effects and of course Tom. But it's just Total Recall meets Mad Max meets Waterworld meets Independence Day (and I am sure there are other "meets" that can be found - heck I might even have found a reference to The English Patient at one point too).
Olga Kurylenko is painfully short as an actress of any quality, so is just there for looks. The only actresses of any quality are Andrea Riseborough and Melissa Leo, neither of which given enough to show off their talents further.
The pace of the film starts out very engaging, with the customary slow parts in between, to ensure it's not too relentless, but then it gets even slower further into the movie and I was starting to get fidgety.
The actual reveal is not really that revealing - you didn't go "oh I seeeeeeee", you just went "Oh right OK". So a lot of build up to nothing really.
And of course it is clichÃ© ridden - just once if a child falls in mass stampede, could the heroine just keep running? And why is it sleeping together once is always absolutely certain to result in a baby? All in all, not sure why Tom signed up for it. Joseph Kosinski (Director) hasn't exactly got a good track record and this matches it.