The Good: Cinematography and Acting
This is a beautiful film, and the star-studded cast did as well as could be expected under the circumstances.
The Bad: The Script
This film should be an edge-of-the-seat thriller and an exploration of what is possible in the future. Instead it was as flat as a busted balloon. There was no tension. There was stuff exploding but we didn't care. Aside from the lack of suspense, a contributing factor to the flaccid plot was the premise. Sci-Fi films require a simple explanation for the break-through being depicted. In "Back to the Future," we are taken all over the space-time continuum. We get the rules, and we go along for the ride. The concept of cyber-human evolution is ahead of the story. We do not get the parameters of the concept. Are these new beings cyber-people? What are those flying dots? Are they pieces of people or matter? There isn't a cohesive story about the scientific break-through. We do not know when the characters are in jeopardy or what will happen when the thing gets them. We don't know what the thing is.
Even death does not have absolute boundaries in this film, but there is no explanation for how Johnny Depp "finds a way back." At some point, we give up trying to put together an explanation for the author and we don't believe it. There ends the magic of film. We cannot suspend disbelief any longer.
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