I am glad I watched it, but I have seen much better.

Rating: 6/10 (7 January 2014)

This was a decent film to say the least, but I have to say I wasn't overly impressed. First I would like to say that the graphics for this film was pretty nice. The technology in this movie seemed like it would be something you would actually see within the next hundred years so I give it props for some decent realism. Besides that and some amusing action scenes along with pretty good acting from Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman, there was a lot of this movie that was not only boring, but also frustrating. The only Character that we got any real back story on was the main protagonist Jack, giving us some flashbacks here and there but not a whole lot to go off of. his female counterpart Julia is annoying and no one was sad when she got killed. The second female lead being the survivor of a crashed ship was slightly more interesting only because she was nice person. Besides that when it comes to characters, they were completely uninteresting. Morgan Freeman's role was boring, even though he is supposed to be a leader of this underground society of surviving humans, you get little to no back story what so ever, no personality, no reason at all to like him besides the fact that he is Morgan Freeman. When people died in this film, you felt nothing of it because so many people were underdeveloped. Along with that a lot of the information about the war between them and the aliens is really brushed over and we don't even get to see a picture of what they look like. Also the logic of the film goes against itself. The idea is that sense the only way they won the war was through nuclear weapons, all the humans had to leave to live on titan, one of Jupiter's moons. Though, don't you think that by that time in history were we have the technology to travel across a huge portion of the solar system, be able to create amazingly advanced spaceships and have a giant one in space where its only purpose is to create clones of this one person in little to no time at all...that we would be able to create a devise that can get rid of the radiation caused from nuclear explosions? did no one think of that? A lot of weird scenes that make no sense till the very end which is also annoying. The film in total was slow paced and though it did have an action scene here and there, they were all fairly short and not nearly as exciting as it should be. The underground survivor society of humans is practically pushed to the side so Jack can keep getting screen time. So little is ever said about the survivors at all and with such little investment, it makes for one big bore. In the end jack dies along with Freeman's character, but he comes back as a clone in the end so...ya that makes it better I guess. I am not one to be overly knit picky about this stuff, but this movie just wasn't good. It was terrible but still not good. I give it a 6 out of 10 because the affects were nice and it kept me interested enough to see then end of the film...barely. If you want to see this movie then rent it, it is not worth a purchase and I am glad I didn't see it in theaters.