a contender for worst expensive movie ever made

Rating: 1/10 (11 June 2012)

There's a lot of competition for Worst Movie Ever, so this one wouldn't be in the running. But it's the worst first-run "blockbuster" big-budget movie I ever saw in the theater. Disappointing isn't the word. This movie is so full of tired clichés that the screenwriters should be ashamed of themselves. It's full of re-worked scenes from older work - if, against my advice, you decide to see it, you'll recognize them.
The acting is mostly terrible. Logan Marshall-Green did okay as the eye candy jerkwad scientist. Some of the special effects are nifty, but nowadays, that's not enough. Every summer movie has elaborate special effects and stuff blowing up. This one just strings them together with a filigree of Greater Meaning that would still have been pathetic even if they had wasted more screen time trying to develop it more. A few of the sets were worth looking at. But the script should have been sent back for many, many re-writes and even then, they should have hesitated to make it.