A school teacher helps his government and then is drugged and forcibly sent on a suicide mission.
This was a flawed film, in that it could comfortably have been 2 hours, there was no need for it to be as long as it was and a hell of a lot of it was filler scenes.
Rocky is easily the heart of the film and all of the scenes with him make the film, including the emotional payoffs. One would say that Rocky upstages Ryan Gosling across the course of the film repeatedly, and Rocky does at times have that sort of Baby Yoga energy.
In terms of being a hard science fiction film, the Martian is a lot better as it has a tighter focus and is less meandering, Interstellar is better as well. However, there is some appeal in that aspect here, it simply isn’t better than some of the other films in the space.
Overall, a competent film but nothing that will knock your socks off. Rocky will be a fan favourite.
3/5
Pros.
Rocky
The ending
It has appeal as a hard/realistic science fiction film
Cons.
The pacing is bad
It has been done better before
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