Close - Until It Fell Off the Cliff

Rating: 4/10 (21 October 2012)

After a sloppy, meandering, beginning the film tightens through the mid section quite nicely. Everything becomes uneasy and you start second- guessing everything. Good.
Then the first major shock scene occurs and the film falls apart entirely. It's a schlock fest. One assumes that is because of the lack of credible script, but really it's more the fault of the stupid characters.
And the sheer idiocy of the finale beggars belief. Several un-named characters drive one spaceship into another. When it happens you'll be like "Pass me the doritos." YAWN.
A dull, strangely lost script destroys a film that had a lot of potential. Obvious twists with characters adds to the laziness and general lack of imagination.
The film is worth seeing for the visual beauty - but don't tune in for the wooden and anonymous performances by Rapace and Theron. Not their fault - they had to play stupid characters in a stupid fest that ended in futility.