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This film makes no sense

His plane has no transponder.. he has no radio... he didn't call in his last position as he crashed.. the helicopter crew that found him didn't tell anybody where they were.. all the helicopter's comms equipment similarly gave up ????

As if that's bad enough.. we get the most stupidly obvious ending .. he waves and sets off a flare but .. despite being obviously spottable the rescuers appear to have somehow missed him.. so he lays down to die.. as the rescuers land behind him

Films like this have to be more realistic.. this was just avoiding reality to make 'drama'

You have got to be kidding. this is a terrible film wrapped a green gauze of wispy feminine lurv but really it stinks like week old haddock the heroine can't speak... one hero is an emotionally crippled gay man (btw .. i can't be the only one to think that this film is racist and homophobic.. in the sense that gay and black people are shown as 'down trodden') the hero is a fish man who eats cast (i don't like cats so there was at least that)

but.. but.. and i so hope somebody reads this and avoids the film.. the film is set in baltimore.. the fishman needs to make it back to the sea.. so do they drive him straight to the beach on his escape ? er.. no.. they put the poor flipper in the bath tub.. so poor frustrated lady can have a bit of fishy rumpy pumpy

aaaaarggggghhhh

worse oscar winner every

If you detach the heritage, name and some decent actors.. there's nothing left but a really, really cliched 'spacestation jumps to parallel dimension, blows up a bit and then comes back' storyline.

Nothing makes any sense, the dialogue is woeful, the plot predictable, the characters forgettable.

And.. I'm going to say it.. it's too 'feminine' .. I'm getting fed up with 'strong' female leads who silently let the tears fall down their perfect cheeks while telling everyone that loving their man and their children is 'literally all there is'.

The book is a masterpiece. And basically.. you have to have read it to make any sense of the film. Which.. basically.. is just a few snippets from the book. But it's some of the main snippets so there's enough for the reader to relate to the themes of desolation and isolation.

It's a shame there was no real space for all the laughs from the novel (except the bimbos in bikinis) but.. there was enough madness and surety to compensate.

Also.. there's a shot where Daniel looks out over the sea at an Island.. and an old man walks by with his corgi.. and that was worth the 10 stars.

Wait a minute.. just wait a minute...

A bloke with superpowers does a lot of damage.. sees the light.. tries to be a good bloke in Poland.. tries to help someone.. gets found out.. wife and kid are efficiently skewered by a single arrow.. he gets all moody and turns into a bad bloke...

Then.. this bad bloke with boiling blood.. murders millions of people .. MILLIONS .. as he redesigns planet Earth by uprooting thousand of buildings and crushing MILLIONS of poor saps stuck between the basement and the penthouse.

Then he has a change of heart and becomes a good bloke again.. and the other good bloke says... 'See.. I knew you had a nice side'

Then he walks away with a fetching Irish grin.

The wailing of the MILLIONS of bereaved seem to go unheard.

Rubbish.