The movie just never gets going

Rating: 3/10 (20 June 2014)

I hate to say it but I found this movie incredibly boring.
I had hoped that there could have been something to the concept of a "Radio Free Britain".
I had bought it in a buying sweep of Mr. Hoffman's movies after his passing, so I felt compelled, over 3 days, to finish so I would not always be wondering if something sitting on the shelf ever improved.
Unfortunately, it did not. It was like watching a TV series that never gets going in its season. Where it is February or March and one wonders what their crisis is, what point will they make before the season finale.
The jokes are predictable, there is never a build up of anticipation, and the antagonist as well as one or two other characters seem put in place just for convenience. They serve their need in the story and then disappear. We never learn of whether or not the antagonist gets the just reward. We know that the enemy has created their device to defeat our heroes, but in the end, the heroes win and we don't know how they overturned the enemy's device. We are "introduced" to the ship's crew far into the movie but we never learn their fates.
We reach a major tense moment when the movie is more than half over which exists for a few minutes but it doesn't last and then the movie moves on to something else. The film seemed like a collection of stories that were only linked because they happened in the same place.
I gave this movie a 3 for wonderful photography/sound coordination, excellent sets, and for a cast that performed decently..............for the story they just did not have.