This is a bad movie.

This is bad movie.

1. The main character is an idiot. "He has a passion for..." - NO. If he supposed to have a passion, the movie should show the viewer what is the passion for actually. What's good in the object of the passion. Even when the character starts debating about it with his partners, he fails to say a sensible reason. "Look at that food! That's a crap! My natural food is good... because I've produced it in my garden" or "Destroying the nature is bad... because the young girls won't see the leaves of a tree" or something similar. Stupid.

2. The robots have feelings. Don't get me wrong, I like when robots seems to have feelings in a sci-fi, but the way it is portrayed in this movie is totally ridicoulos and mindless. Can you imagine a scene where the robot doesn't execute a command which would help repairing the other robot, BECAUSE he's worrying about the other robot so he want to be beside him instead? And these robots are not even made to be company for anyone. These are just labour workers, they don't even have the ability to talk or communicate. As bad as it gets.

3. The robots behaviour. So they have feelings, yet they didn't care about the astronauts killed off. One of them have seen the murder, but didn't do anything. Actually, the main character being an idiot I was awaiting for a plot turn where the robots will rebel against him. I've really believed this will be the peak of the movie. It never happened. Despite the lack of rebellion, a fair amount of times they didn't obey to the orders and wasn't explained why.

4. Bad visual effects. The walking robots are ridicoulos. No robots moves like this in a serious sci-fi. Even if you'd want a robot to have legs, at least do it right, and make it a little smoother. BTW, apart from having legs the robots doesn't even similar to humans, so what are the legs for at all? The surgery and poker scene with that crippled robot hands look ludicrous, too.

And the spaceship most times doesn't seem to move. It is essential in a sci-fi to move the stars or move the ship, else it would look as fake as it can be. And indeed. I can forgive the cheap-looking models but this is just an insulting frugality.

5. The solution. Big SPOILER here. The guy finds out the lack of the sun causes the decaying of the forests. So what does he do? He brings out his special ultraviolet-emissive bulbs to the forest and puts them into the pre-made sockets... easy as that. It's nice to see the place was THAT much prepared for this kind of situation.

6. The acting. Bruce Dern's performance was plain bad. In the argument scene in the kitchen he acted like a pouting 10-year-old kid. When he learns his forests will be destroyed he just gawks with no sign of emotions. When he learns he'll die he doesn't react either. When he buries somebody he didn't even like, he gets emotional and cries. He's crying because of the loss and not because he frightened what he has done or what will happen next day. These all would work if the character supposed to be a lunatic, but I'm afraid it wasn't the intention.