Snoozefest

Rating: 5/10 (16 February 2020)

Maybe one of the most overrated movies I've ever seen, the plot is so pedestrian and drudges along at an incredibly slow, and predictable, pace.
If there's one thing in a movie that can make me lose interest faster than anything else, it is when an uncreative lead casting choice is made, and that actor casted simply plays themselves. It is the most cliched and boring type of movie when this happens, like a paint-by-numbers film experience, and Matt Damon is full blown Matt Damon in this. As a whole, and considering the ridiculous length of the movie, he shows no emotional range at all. It's like watching a Saturday Night Live skit where Matt Damon is just hanging out on a fake space rock, being himself.
There are corny, banal, and cliched attempts at humor to really try to make it a commercial hit, but this is stuff that used to be original back in 1990; by now, you've seen and heard it all hundreds if not thousands of times.
The only reason I'm even writing this review is because this movie has an 8.0 rating on here, which should mean it is special or elite, and my cable service provider gave it 4/4 stars. Frankly, I would be more entertained watching paint dry than to sit though this boring, predictable, slog of a movie that feels like it was only made for grade-schoolers.
5/10 (all five for technical and visual effects)