Beautiful space shots and a decent idea for a story with some twists. But does that mean you can just give up on all logic and science?
As the characters don't have enough background to make them really interesting (they mostly just represent their occupation) and so many things didn't make sense, I found it hard to keep my attention on this movie. Hollywood, is it so hard to hire a real scientist for a week and get him to point out the logic flaws?
- Why is this a manned mission? And why 8 people? All you're trying to do is fly a rocket into the sun. Bringing it there with an enormous ship, which needs to go back afterwards, is stupid and a waste. You can shoot it into the sun at any point.
- Gravity? The ship's core was rotating, but that would only generate a centrifugal force, yet everywhere there is gravity in one direction.
- Not enough oxygen, yet there is a massive hangar (why is that there?) that is pressurized, apparently.
- Why are all the rooms in the ship so big, anyway? The hallways are tens of metres long, without any reason or purpose.
- A supercomputer that can answer almost any kind of questions, but fails to mention simple things, such as changing the course without rotating the shields, noticing an unknown 5th passenger on the ship, etc.
As the characters don't have enough background to make them really interesting (they mostly just represent their occupation) and so many things didn't make sense, I found it hard to keep my attention on this movie. Hollywood, is it so hard to hire a real scientist for a week and get him to point out the logic flaws?