Summary
Adam Driver is a remarkably humanoid spaceman, who gets marooned on Earth in the age of the dinosaurs. It feels like something right out of the History Channel.
A lot of people didn’t like this film and have given it strongly negative reviews, and whilst I don’t think this film is good, I also think it is watchable.
The plot is fairly awful, full of needless flashbacks and plot asides that go nowhere and add very little to the wider engagement of the feature, as well as a collection of baffling science fiction jargon, but one would expect that with this sort of film.
Moreover, the father child dynamic feels like a trend that is well and truly overstaying its welcome here. We are seeing more and more of this in media these days and honestly it is okay when a new film or show can iterate on it in some way or make it engaging, but here it felt generic and played out.
The saving grace of this film is the ability to view it whilst ignoring its plot. If you do watch this film switch your brain off, don’t try and engage with it as a story, instead view it as a spectacle film. This is a film about a man with a laser gun fighting T-Rexs, if that sounds interesting to you then watch it for that, because the spectacle of the film is not half bad.
Overall, fine if you are watching it for mindless science fiction, bad if you are watching it for a story or to be engaged.
2.5/5
Pros.
It is a good premise
The spectacle delivers
Driver is serviceable
Cons.
The father child stuff is getting boring
It has awful pacing and a slow first act
The story is incredibly subpar
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