Ryland Grace can’t seem to relate to any humans and isn’t much interested in saving humanity. The one creature he does care for, is a bizarrely sycophantic alien, who speaks like a chatbot given voice. Rocky reminded me far more of ChatGpt or Claude than E.T. or Spock.
While this is technically very well made, it’s also deeply dull, where literally nothing happens for long stretches of the film, save for conversations with Gosling and his weird friendly Alien Intelligence.
Embrace AI instead of other people is certainly a message I guess.
There are some nice visuals, but they’re extremely derivative of 2001, Interstellar and Star Trek. There’s nothing you haven’t seen yet in far better films, with far better scripts and much more defined characters.
A lot of people love the book, and the movie is clearly resonating with huge audiences. I had to fight dozing off multiple times.
I haven't seen it but it can't be that damn bad man. Imma have to watch this now.
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EDIT: I have to admit I saw the book cover on Audible and said Hail Naw!
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