This is one of the most boring and empty plotted movies that I have ever seen. No, I don't care that weren't explosions, CGI, or a massive budget. No, I don't care if there is supposed to be a sequel. This movie was painfully slow and without purpose, suspense, satisfaction, or emotion.
Story: A single astronaut flies to three parts of our solar system to land and pick up a small sphere at each. He touches them. He sees images (water, trees, his wife, a chess board). When he gets all three spheres together there's a burst of information. It's some form of communication. He's given directions to another part of the solar system. He heads off in that direction. End.
That's it. That's the entire 1hr and 45min.
The acting was uninspiring and the connection to the characters weak. All the "science" could have been written on a single cue card. This movie wasn't the slightest bit entertaining, moving, or thought provoking. I wasn't drawn into the movie at all. Some are trying to make comparisons with Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" but Magellan has none of the suspense, imagery, imagination, or complexity found in 2001.
You want decent, non-flashy fiction? Try: Pi (1998); Primer (2004); Moon (2009); Europa Report (2013); or Coherence (2013).
Story: A single astronaut flies to three parts of our solar system to land and pick up a small sphere at each. He touches them. He sees images (water, trees, his wife, a chess board). When he gets all three spheres together there's a burst of information. It's some form of communication. He's given directions to another part of the solar system. He heads off in that direction. End.
That's it. That's the entire 1hr and 45min.
The acting was uninspiring and the connection to the characters weak. All the "science" could have been written on a single cue card. This movie wasn't the slightest bit entertaining, moving, or thought provoking. I wasn't drawn into the movie at all. Some are trying to make comparisons with Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" but Magellan has none of the suspense, imagery, imagination, or complexity found in 2001.
You want decent, non-flashy fiction? Try: Pi (1998); Primer (2004); Moon (2009); Europa Report (2013); or Coherence (2013).