Bad acting and plot holes vs great CGI and Music

Rating: 5/10 (18 May 2013)

There wasn't any good acting in this movie. Cruise, Freeman and that girl from a Bond movie - all going through the motions. Which is a problem as this movie is trying to be one about hope, where we care whether the people survived.
I found I could care less.
The story has an interesting premise. Unfortunately it doesn't grow a decent plot. The script is basic cut and paste. If you are more than twelve years old it will seem like one cliché after another.
On the positive side of things the CGI (all of the visuals) are very well done. The Star Wars clichéd chase scene is a clichéd and shortcoming of the story, rather than of the people in charge of the visuals.
The music is stirring and uplifting and one of the best for a long time.
But, as a movie, it's just average. A straight-to-DVD kind of outing with an over-sized budget.