Good Idea - Questionable Execution

Rating: 3/10 (6 September 2019)

This movie had an interesting premise, and it started well, but got off course towards the middle and barely got back on track by the end.
The idea is essentially that two people spend their lives together in blissful isolation in a technological paradise, but they're trapped there. The problem with the movie is that it misses out all the good stuff that happens between them, growing a forest, raising kids and growing old, and opts instead for 45 mins of explosions and magically fixing things.
It's the sort of movie which makes you cry to begin with, and then stunningly destroys all your expectations by resorting to a bunch of Hollywood standard narrative devices that are supposed to make the film 'exciting' but actually just ruin the whole thing. Whoever chose the music for the ending credits should be shot too.
It's frustrating when Hollywood mangles a good movie, which is exactly what they did here. Why can't they respect the auteurs original vision for a movie I wonder? If this were a European movie it would have been ten times better.
Nice set design. Stunning visuals etc. Basically this film got hi-jacked by idiots in the pre-planning stage.