Big Disappointment

Rating: 3/10 (30 April 2016)

It is a story theme I have seen many times before under various premises complete with the heroic last minute rescue. The overall plot reminded me of old Lost In Space episodes where the crew gets in some hopeless situation and clever little Will saves the day with some outlandish and risky solution.
The movie is predictable, overacted, full of corn ball clichés and completely far fetched for non fantasy(attempts to be realistic) based science fiction. For example, our lead is able to find a probe from a failed mission sent many years earlier, dig it up and it works just fine? How was a ready to launch rocket placed my NASA for a future mission with no debris around it and why wouldn't a storm knock it over like it almost did to the current mission's rocket when the crew escaped at the beginning? I could go on and on.
I was not even wowed by the special effects and found them inferior to "2001 a Space Odyssey"(I mention this film because comparisons where made) which was made decades ago with far less technology.
On top of all that it was just tedious and I had to force myself to watch to the all too predictable ending.
My ranking is low because my expectations were high based on ratings and accolades about how great this film was.