The director of this film is Christopher Nolans Director of Photography. He has a few actors from the Nolan stable, some cool future tech and Morgan Freeman who is wasted as the wiseman. You know how Nolans Inception tried keeping people engaged with its continual metamorphosis, always leaving you guessing, even after the last scene? Well, dont worry, you wont care about this movie after the last scene, much less debate its meaning. First, I dislike most any story, in any medium, that starts out at the end. This one does that. Next, the idea of creating an artificial, sentinent... thing would have been enough drama and spectacle, in my opinion. Instead, that concept was put through something like a Jerry Bruckheimer Hollywood Story-matic machine, and what is left is a bunch more tension using over the top ideas and requiring huge amounts of suspended disbelief on the part of the audience. At some point, you think youre watching an early 90s A.I. b flick. Any emotion is efficiently sucked out of the story and Randall Wallace once again proves that he can write masculine characters who eventually get disemboweled, but women in his stories are simple slaves to their emotions. One woman ignores everything and magically births a new life form without considering the consequences, the other is a mad single-minded, murdering terrorist, (I wonder what Randalls mom was like). Normally, my threshold for bad Sci Fi is pretty high because I love the genre so much. Not this time. Dont waste your time, money or intelligence.
Posted on: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 08:20:04 +0000
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