Bad, Really Bad

Rating: 1/10 (2 July 2012)

Most of the positive reviews of this movie must have been mass generated from people who were paid to do so. How else to explain it?
I love sci-fi in general and intelligent sci-fi in particular. And I'm willing to forgive an awful lot if the writing is good. This film is visually stunning but the writing and character development is so bad that you end up not caring about the visuals. I can think of not one single character that I cared about. And why was Theron in this movie? She didn't do anything but walk around in a jumpsuit. Minor spoiler: Let's say you're an archaeologist who has spent his entire adult life excavating and uncovering evidence that aliens visited earth thousands of years ago. And then your dream comes true and you travel to their planet and discover ancient ruins. Do you spend exactly ONE DAY looking around the ruins and then go back to your tent and pout and get drunk because you can't find a living descendant? Even Indiana Jones would have stopped to read and study some petroglyphs for a few minutes before smashing up the place. The whole movie was frustrating, juvenile, and ridiculous.