Unexpectedly brilliant

Rating: 8/10 (4 February 2017)

If you ask the question "What is Sci-Fi ?", you'll get several answers depending on the age and personalities of the people you ask. It is a genre that is continually changing, morphing to the social comment that the influential collective is thinking about at the moment.
In the '60s it was all about exploration; short skirts, heavy hairdo's and quick witted, plucky captains. It went through the drugged '70s, the business '80s, the internet connected '90s and the opinionated 2K's to the current "let's do it better than before", with retries (called "re-imaginings", LOL) in film of everything Sci-Fi.
I was expecting the same formulaic "let's tell an old story again" attitude in this film but found something else completely. It is an assembly of the best parts of all the eras, not only in Sci-Fi but also in other genres; a seamless mash-up of drama, suspense, romance and , of course, Sci-Fi, created by a mastermind and executed by a talented team.
I would recommend this film as it proved to me that something new can be made from parts of something old - and it can be brilliant.