What should have been an ordinary REVIEW was pushed down to a RANT by the presence of the annoying Tom Cruise, who manages to turn everything into a wooden exercise in non-acting.
To be fair, he doesn't single-handedly ruin the movie; he's helped in that department by a lackluster plot - one with twists and turns that:
a) were more like slight curves rather than out and out twists and
b) with an ending that was telegraphed in the trailer.
Cruise exclaims "we've been tricked" or something to that effect, and any fool could see their mission to extract earth's natural resources - as much water as they could suck into various space tankers - before hightailing it to the human colony on Titan, is all a deceit.
The other problem is that their time is spent - just the two of them (Tom and some babe in a space uniform) - marking time in a lonely, sterile existence.
One that I keenly felt watching this dull film.
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