While I tried my hardest to avoid this movie like the plague, I have unfortunately had the opportunity to watch this... thing.
This movie so bad it actually makes something like Prometheus look good.
Seriously.
Essentially, the movie focuses around a dude in the army, his fiancée to be, and a bunch of no-named faggots doing shit no-one cares about for no real reason at all, and then every now and then Liam Neeson comes onto the set to make an oscar-nominating line or performance.
The problem with the movie above all is that they didn't hire any creative staff; the dialogue is weak and forgettable, and cliche at the best of times, the acting itself is wooden and poorly scripted, and the CGI is basically that of any other action movie that has come out in the last 5 years.
Oh boy, I said it, didn't I? It's an....
ACTION MOVIE (Holy shit no fucking way!)
This essentially entitles the movie to have absolutely no coherent story, any real depth in character, nor any character development, but damn it just looks pretty doesn't it now?
As I've made it abundantly clear, action movies are the cancer of the film industry because they incite no real, well, anything. They're ultimately forgettable movies that people watch for some reason.
The start of the movie develops the central idea that there is this thing which can fire information into space to "communicate" with another planet, codenamed "Planet G" because, as I said, no money was allotted to the creative writing team in this film. The thing, fashioned more like a giant laser sending some sort of super-concentrated light into nowhere, is apparently supposed to carry information with it.
Then, out of nowhere, aliens.
No plot development is made between this beam being activated, and aliens actually landing on Earth. And this is, in all seriousness, about 35 minutes of film time.
It also happens to conveniently be when I stopped watching.
The closest the movie ever gets to a time reference is when the suave, immature, and poorly-characterised main character is calling his girlfriend, and he says that he has about "five minutes" before his battleship (or destroyer, or whatever it's called, I lost interest) moves outside of cellphone communication range. Conveniently, her girlfriend is hiking in a nearby mountain range, where AT&T and Verizon are known to provide greatest coverage at.
Then aliens land in the middle of the ocean, and somewhere else, and they're saying that they sent a message, and got a response.
I was so rustled, that at this very point, I literally stood up and occupied my mind with something else, to halt (or at least slow down) the development of a migraine.
Let's look at the facts. The closest star to the Solar System (the capitalisation is in reference to the fact that "Solar System" is in fact a proper noun, and the system home to our sun, Sol) is Proxima Centauri, within the Alpha Centauri system. This star is 4.2 light years from our own sun. The problem is that it doesn't have any planets orbiting it.
The closest star with a planet is Alpha Centauri B, which has only one known planet. Unfortunately, this planet is not within the habitable zone of its star, so logically no life should exist on this planet.
Moving on, is Epsilon Eridani, which has two known planets. Epsilon Eridani, which is 10.5 light years from our own sun. Unfortunately, neither of these two planets have actually been properly confirmed, so their existence, while highly probable, is still conjecture.
Now I'm going to assume best case scenario is Epsilon Eridani b, the most probable planet that isn't based on conjecture and jumping to conclusions, and I'm going to assume that this is within the habitable zone of any star for life to properly form (that is, it's not too hot on the planet, and it's not too cold, and we're assuming that life has a basic underlying set of rules as to what it can survive in). This planet is more than 10 light years away. That means, if this "beam" thing proposed in the movie is actually just sending light, it will take 10 years for the "light" to reach the planet. Not only do we NOT have a stable method of interpreting the orbit of the planet, but we are also going to have to wait 10 years for this beam to just reach that planet.
This means that not only are these aliens so advanced that they have a method of interstellar travel perfected, but they also possess incredibly strong time-travelling abilities, and were lucky enough to travel back in time and space to Earth, literally only days after that thing was fired.
Convenient plot? Yeah, sure.
Plausible? No.
Worth your time? No.
Essentially, this movie should have just been called:
Because that's what the movie is saying, a big "fuck you" to anyone who watches it above the age of eight.
