Most of the reviews I have read here, and which have rated the movie badly, start with the premise for the need of a "point". It is true that the movie doesn't develop all the "big events" happening within the story line. We never learn the "why's" of the base story line, this being what happens to earth, why is it destroyed. We never know what happens to Sully and Adewole on their way back to the new planet. We don't know what Sanchez and Mitchell find on their way back to earth. We don't know a lot, because the main story is not about the earth being destroyed, or the new moon K-23 being discovered suitable for human life. The main story is about a man whose personal relationships were bad to say the least. Why? We don't the whole story for that either. The character is left with some mystery onto why he made those choices, and we only get glimpses of him through very short flashbacks and the opinion of what others have of him. He seems to be respected and admired because of his scientific work, but he is a flawed man who seems to have put science above everything else.
There are many storylines exposed in this movie, and none of the obvious ones will be developed beyond their need, they are left to interpretation. The only storyline which comes to fruition is the personal journey of Augustine in his last moments alive. Yes, this story goes nowhere if one chooses to see it that way, because the point of this story relies on a moment in a man's life where he made an important choice, the wrong one, one that will give a full circle to that story line in the movie.
It is well said that "expectations lead to disappointment" and in the case of a movie like this that point falls on heavily when expecting that every story line is fully well rounded when the point of the movie relies on the subtlety of one's mistake(s) throughout life.
One could go in detail into what could the movie have done to please more every person that thought it was a sci-fi movie, or the people who were expecting more of the apocalyptic reality the movie could have offered with the thought of "people living underground, but that is only temporary". But this is not that kind of movie, this is simpler, try to come to it without expectations if you want to enjoy what it has to offer.
And no, this is not a breathtaking movie, nor great, but is not the horrible disaster the other reviews say it is.
There are many storylines exposed in this movie, and none of the obvious ones will be developed beyond their need, they are left to interpretation. The only storyline which comes to fruition is the personal journey of Augustine in his last moments alive. Yes, this story goes nowhere if one chooses to see it that way, because the point of this story relies on a moment in a man's life where he made an important choice, the wrong one, one that will give a full circle to that story line in the movie.
It is well said that "expectations lead to disappointment" and in the case of a movie like this that point falls on heavily when expecting that every story line is fully well rounded when the point of the movie relies on the subtlety of one's mistake(s) throughout life.
One could go in detail into what could the movie have done to please more every person that thought it was a sci-fi movie, or the people who were expecting more of the apocalyptic reality the movie could have offered with the thought of "people living underground, but that is only temporary". But this is not that kind of movie, this is simpler, try to come to it without expectations if you want to enjoy what it has to offer.
And no, this is not a breathtaking movie, nor great, but is not the horrible disaster the other reviews say it is.