Lost in Space.

Rating: 2/10 (1 March 2017)

For a director of the stature of Ridley Scott to allow his prodigious talents to be squandered in such a way is a crime. Is this the same man who brought us "Alien"?? It's as though he HAD to produce a "summer blockbuster" to satisfy his corporate masters, at OUR expense. This movie is nothing but a hodgepodge of clips, gags, and dialogue that he felt necessary to cannabalize from not only his own films, but every, single science fiction piece of CGI trash on the market, just to produce a "marketable product," even rescuing a dour-faced Jeff Daniels from unemployment in order to scowl throughout this entire, useless excuse for a scifi epic. It was as though Scott watched endless reruns of an equally tedious "Gravity" by which to steal yet MORE ideas and plot points so unbelievably ludicrous as to beggar the imagination. But what is even more obvious is Scott's ripping off Bruce Dern's scifi classic, "Silent Running, in 1972, which was the first to explore the "Farmer in Space" theme, 45-years earlier. The only difference is, he did it better. Perhaps a pre-teen could believe this fabricated piece of space junk, but certainly no discerning adult.