Than I actually did. The first part of the movie, before the figher launch, was so-so. Not much action, but the technobable was interesting. Then the fighters launched, and that’s whre the disappointment happened.

You’ve got these fighers flying up into the atmosphere, flying round ships around them, and the flight leader tells them to not engage, though the animation shows them firing anyway. Then you got the scientist frantically working, and somehow, she instantly upgrades the fighters with the technology necessary to get into space. Then the fighters go to the mothership, which you don’t really see at all, before getting sucked into a vortex and being teleported close to Mars. Why the Aliens didn’t just teleport the fighers into a black hole, I’m not sure.

And then it switches to the boring main-character’s story, where he’s trying to find his son. And I’m thinking, “I didn’t watch this movie to see this.” Running around, crazy people telling them “don’t touch the walls” for no reason, it was like a bad, boring, nonsensical dream. When it finally goes back to the fighters, which was what I was really interested in, they’re idling in space for no reason. They finally go down to Mars, fight a battle and…what? It kept switching back to the boring “I gotta find my son” story, and the figher battle was never resolved, or even mentioned again.

This constant switching between what could have been an interesting story and a story that’s just stupid was what ruined the movie for me. But I think what was really bad about this movie was the realization that I could have written a better script. I really could have. Me, a 19 year old college student, within three hours, could have come up with a story a lot better than this. And I personally don’t want to watch a movie made by people with talent less than my own.