Reviews

I'm gonna keep it short and sweet. The acting, is cringeworthy!!! The characters are not likable...the script is bitty, and cheesy. I don't know what the aim was - is it supposed to be spoofy????? It feels like it sometimes.

It looks alright...BUT the main problem I have, is that there are so many holes in the science in it. I'm not a scientist...I just like things to have logic, and be believable. Someone else mentioned in another review about some stuff I'd noticed myself (the pilots would operate remotely - like people do now controlling weaponry, the workings wouldn't be as clunky and mechanical etc etc)...I know that might sound picky, but once holes are shown in films, it ruins the movie experience. Good scifi should always be plausible. If you're not too bothered about that, there is a chance you might like the film.

It's a shame. I like Del Torro's other stuff as well. But here, he's indulged his style over the substance of the film.

Elle fanning was awesome...there is no doubt about it. The English accents of both fanning and Hendricks were slightly cringe inducing at times, but I bet they could both do better at it! The vowels were over-enunciated in both, making it sound forced...not gentle enough.

I really liked the parts earlier on in the film, where the viewer is taken around watching the girls go about the things they did when there were no adults around. It made me wince slightly, because they're so young, but it's exactly like my friends and I at that age. Brilliant, subtle story telling.

The cinematography is fabulous, and looks beautiful. That sort of raw aesthetic adds to rendering the pictures messages as more realistic.

But generally, there was something missing in this, and I'm not sure what. But a film that's worth a watch, and a film that certainly brought Elle Fanning into my peripheral vision. She'll be great.