Could have been much better

Rating: 4/10 (1 April 2012)

The young actors cast as the tributes were quite good, however the adults (including Donald Sutherland) failed to perform as well. Wes Bently's performance was overshadowed by his own beard - that silly looking flame cut was so distracting Much of the context was sacrificed to make room for poorly shot action footage and computer generated images of the fancy 3D displays in the control room. Spending a little less on pointless graphics would have freed up some funds to get some stabilizers for the hand held cameras used for the action shots - maybe then they wouldn't have been so blurry and out of focus. However even in shots where the actors were not moving, the drift made it clear they were using still using hand-held cameras and couldn't keep them still. Sacrificing just a few minutes of this for a little context would have made this a much better movie.