Sunday 15 May 2011

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Watchable. The SF bits were fantastic - old good hardcore science fiction with a soldier hero, the timeless question of what makes us human and a space travel motif. The story itself is recounted carefully - scraps of information are being dripped to the viewer at the same time as to the protagonist with whose eyes we follow the developments. The story stays clear and comprehensible throughout and yet there are a few surprises along the way. While the plot is centred around explosions, we're spared watching them any more than necessary, in fact an average action movie has more, whether it makes sense or not. What detracts from the enjoyment is the cheesiness of the realistic layer, especially the romantic bit.

I felt a bit weird afterwards - the same route home by the same mode of transport as a couple of months ago which made it "the same but a little different" and there was a white van parked outside my place...

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