Too long

There's virtually no story so it shouldn't take two and a half hours to present the material. It was so long I couldn't wait for it to finish. By the end I felt I was really angry for it having wasted so much of my time. I don't mind a long movie if it's a quality storyline but this really isn't that.

The hot chic's ass at the start was the best bit in the whole film. They should have made more of her as a sex symbol to flesh out the skimpy script.

Good movie though, nothing really wrong with it. The humanity of the machines came through which was good. It had some touching moments, some humour, some action but I didn't really care for any particular character.

As a comparison Star Trek (2009) ran for over 2 hours and it was just fantastic viewing from start to finish because it was character driven. This movie is just lots of robots moving about and shooting things. It just gets old by the time you've sat through half of it.

I give it a solid 6/10 overall, with a 10/10 for special effects and 2/10 for the story and script. I only say 10/10 because one has to acknowledge the work that must have gone into it. I didn't really enjoy most of that work.

Also they didn't really pace the movie very well. There could have been half an hour of space movie, perhaps half an hour of insider humans doing diabolical plotting, half an hour of revealing the nature of said plotting, half an hour of military (lack of) intelligence, and then a final half hour of the final battle.

I mean 1969 humans land on the moon and explore a spaceship as large as a small skyscraper and they're just acting like they're ordering a McDonalds meal. There is no sense of wonder or enchantment about it whatsoever. And that's what I think lets the whole film down throughout. It's just a series of special effects with no soul.

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