What a terrible film... Its hard to believe Hollywood would spend 90 million on a script like this, with its cornball dialogue and its utterly unconvincing space research. This films seems to take every cliche from every space exploration movie ever made, reheats them at medium temperature then serves them pretending that its some kind of new and exciting dish. An example: You've got the suicidal loner who has just lost their partner, the black guy who goes crazy at the slightest provocation, the married couple who are so happy you just KNOW that one of them will kick the bucket before the end of the film, and the young hotshot who thinks too highly of himself. Those sort of people have cropped up in hmm. I don't know, like a thousand other movies. None of them seems to have any human interest at all, they are simply caricatures of the script, which is far too busy trying to fit in as many special effects as possible to put in any drama or God forbid, half-decent dialogue. And don't give me that baloney about just seeing it for the special effects, if you want to see a visual extravaganza go see a firework display, the cinema is meant to test your brain. Why this eye-candy rubbish makes millions of dollars while far superior pictures released on a much smaller scale make nothing at the box-office is beyond me, I guess it just shows the power of hype over content nowadays. Oh and check out the alien during the final segment, probably the most pointless and wasteful use of CGI graphics you'll ever see. Blergh.