I actually enjoyed this one greatly, but when days later I tried to recall which movie it was that I have yet to fail writing about nothing came to mind right away. So maybe it wasn't as good as I first anticipated, but it was the kind of film I liked - future, cute robots that develop emotions, sci-fi, Hugh Laurie.
It was the future that bothered me a bit at places through. Can we just get over the hovercraft obsession? Please? There are more interesting technologies to be thought of than hovercrafts, surely. The lack of fresh ideas maybe was this movie's biggest problem. The pin was a cool idea - it was without a doubt the best one the movie had and it was wise to build the story up to it, because it was also without a doubt the only original idea featured. At least it was original to me.
I understand that's it's much easier to say "Oh I've seen it, been there, done that" and much harder to come up with something sensational. However being only 20 years of age at the time of writing I don't think I should feel as if I've seen it all. Especially because when it comes to world I certainly haven't. Anyway…
The back story was a bit shaky too. I don't mean to be CinemaSins, but why was NASA no longer doing research. If anyone managed to get that please be so kind as to share it in the comment section. Casey's brother asks her why are they tearing the thing down and her answer is something super vague. Along the lines of "They've stopped dreaming" and it never gets mentioned again! Ever! In the whole movie.
Also Casey is smart enough to get the dog is a hologram and yet misses a few other try obvious things that the viewer gets right away.
I still loved Athena. And it's not a bad movie so go see it.
(And yet I won't bother with the Estonian post)
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