c_birkett

It is really annoying when someone who knows NOTHING about science or engineering tries to write a drama about it.

The lead character portrays someone who doesn't have the patience or intelligence to pass a college physics class, let alone discover nuclear fusion. It is just absurd. She is a mess of emotions, risking her life and perhaps the future of earth because she takes umbrage at things a strange alien says. She brings her car to a sudden stop on a road where people are driving 70 because she is upset. The entire work looks like the director, actors, and perhaps writers had not the slighted clue what a scientist or engineer is about.

Too bad, because the plot has an interesting start. But I must rate this series not worth my time any more. I can't enjoy a movie that constantly collides with how people in my world act.

If this portrays how the average artist, business person, or marketing person see science and scientists, we are in real trouble as a society. That others who write reviews don't immediately see that also is doubly disturbing.

The imagery is mostly excellent, worthy of the Asimov's best work. But it diverges in key areas from the plot of the series and has jarring and illogical plot elements. Characters behave at times in stupid ways that are not believable.

Worst is the relentless march of Politically Correct elements, which make it as tiresome at times as an old Soviet propaganda piece. White men are bad. Women are good and the strongest fighters and more aggressive than men with better developed characters. Do all new film works need to go through these litmus tests before approval?

Still I'm going to rate it as something fun to watch. We just need a better version to come along. And please, for G's sake get rid of the PC next time.

Poor use of music and sound. Disjointed plot. And WHAT director uses actors for key different roles that look almost the same? The father of the girl is almost impossible to tell from the chief villain. I had to rewatch several times and still could not tell the difference.

How anyone could rate this higher than 5 is beyond me.

The lead actor did a decent job. None of the other actors had a chance to really develop their characters. All were 2 dimensional filler roles.