Tough one to review...
If after you saw Stanley Kubricks 1968 film "2001 A Space Odyssey" you remember thinking...
What was that?
This kind of has that feeling.
It takes place about 100-150 years into Earth's future.
Planet Earth and its resources are depleted; its human civilizations are dying, there are no more armies, the earths farmlands are near dust bowls.
The only surviving food source is corn and it is estimated due to blight, to be gone in 1, maybe 2 generations.
Due to lack of resources and the emphasis on survival farming, technological advances are a thing of the near past.
The Earth's people are in a state of barely sustainable existence, with no favorable outcome for the species.
Matthew McConaughy, farmer, family man, once, long ago, a NASA test pilot has a pre-cocious daughter "Murph" who shows him the results of "Ghost" activities in her dust laden bedroom.
The "Ghosts"have knocked books off of the library shelves and scatter's encrypted messages onto the dusty floor.
Intrigued by anomaly's on his farm, Matthew, discovers a message in the dust, map co-ordinates.
Grabbing a map, he heads out and discovers Earth's last hope: the remnants of a ragtag underground NASA, and a professor with a plan.
Someone (aliens? future advanced earthlings?) has created (by the planet Saturn) a wormhole passage to a far-away galaxy with several planets that might support human life.
Previous teams have been sent thru the wormhole and Matthew is tapped to pilot an extension of the mission.
Anymore would give too much away....
It was a LONG movie,(3 hours) but held my interest as an old trekkie.
Black holes, time travel, space ships, alien possibilities, very cool Gumby-like robots, end of earth...its all here, but not for people who like GEE WHIZZ space shoot em ups.
To me, it was very thought provoking and the message I got was that Man needs evolving technology and the continuing quest for knowledge to survive and thrive.
It was an ambitious movie, great cinematic, but not for everyone, I was fairly riveted to the premise, my wife went along for the ride.
If after you saw Stanley Kubricks 1968 film "2001 A Space Odyssey" you remember thinking...
What was that?
This kind of has that feeling.
It takes place about 100-150 years into Earth's future.
Planet Earth and its resources are depleted; its human civilizations are dying, there are no more armies, the earths farmlands are near dust bowls.
The only surviving food source is corn and it is estimated due to blight, to be gone in 1, maybe 2 generations.
Due to lack of resources and the emphasis on survival farming, technological advances are a thing of the near past.
The Earth's people are in a state of barely sustainable existence, with no favorable outcome for the species.
Matthew McConaughy, farmer, family man, once, long ago, a NASA test pilot has a pre-cocious daughter "Murph" who shows him the results of "Ghost" activities in her dust laden bedroom.
The "Ghosts"have knocked books off of the library shelves and scatter's encrypted messages onto the dusty floor.
Intrigued by anomaly's on his farm, Matthew, discovers a message in the dust, map co-ordinates.
Grabbing a map, he heads out and discovers Earth's last hope: the remnants of a ragtag underground NASA, and a professor with a plan.
Someone (aliens? future advanced earthlings?) has created (by the planet Saturn) a wormhole passage to a far-away galaxy with several planets that might support human life.
Previous teams have been sent thru the wormhole and Matthew is tapped to pilot an extension of the mission.
Anymore would give too much away....
It was a LONG movie,(3 hours) but held my interest as an old trekkie.
Black holes, time travel, space ships, alien possibilities, very cool Gumby-like robots, end of earth...its all here, but not for people who like GEE WHIZZ space shoot em ups.
To me, it was very thought provoking and the message I got was that Man needs evolving technology and the continuing quest for knowledge to survive and thrive.
It was an ambitious movie, great cinematic, but not for everyone, I was fairly riveted to the premise, my wife went along for the ride.
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