An average movie

I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since there was a decent cast involved, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, to be honest, I wasn’t really impressed by the damned thing. Basically, the idea was to deliver a SF feature as if it had been shot in the 70’s which was not necessarily a bad idea. Indeed, this way, they gave us some futurism and some anachronism side by side and this juxtaposition was fairly entertaining. Unfortunately, beside this decent concept, I’m afraid this movie had really nothing else to offer. The fact that there was no real plot was not an issue, the problem was that all these characters were all involved in some rather half-baked and really tedious sub-plots. To make things worse, none of these characters was either charismatic (except maybe Liv Tyler), entertaining or interesting whatsoever. Finally, the acting was widely inconsistent through the whole duration. Basically, one half of the actors (Patrick Wilson, Marisa Coughlan, Jerry O'Connell) were playing rather over-the-top, as if it was some kind of parody, while the other half (Liv Tyler, Matt Bomer) played it completely straightforward and this inconsistency was just rather jarring. Like I mentioned before, this concept was not bad but, unfortunately, pretty much everything else didn’t really work whatsoever. At least, Liv Tyler still looked quite gorgeous after all these years but it’s such a pity her career consists nowadays mostly of such obscure and rather lame features. Anyway, to conclude, this decent idea was just rather poorly developed, I just didn’t care much for the damned thing and I don’t think it is really worth a look.