I actually enjoyed watching the movie up until the third act.
The set up was intriguing. It was engaging and interesting up until the near end. The third act is when I lost my suspense of disbelief.
There's a moment at the end of the second act where Rick Janssen, The protagonist and successful experiment has a major medical emergency. He goes into surgery. We also see all of the other subjects including Tally Rutherford, go into surgery as well. It seems without this surgery, they would all die.
During this surgery montage we see that the majority of the participants have died except our protagonist Rick and Tally. Rick's wife, Abi now gets to see her husband. We can now see Rick and Tally completely altered humans. They have evolved past their human state.
This is a really interesting moment...then....for whatever reason...the lead scientist, Martin says "They can go home..."
What?....Your experiment is successful and you don't want to monitor or study your experiment anymore?...you know that beings with this DNA can be violent and yet you want to release it back to the public? You're not worried that your subjects could be harmed or potentially die in an unsupervised environment?
This is a stupid, stupid decision by the head scientist of this experiment.
This movie upsets me because it had SO much potential to be great. This movie started out with the premise of the survival of the human species. It seemed as if Professor Martin's goal was for human kind to survive outside of earth. He's the good guy...but the third act suddenly made Martin the antagonist...this was completely unwarranted.
The third act became less about humanity as a whole and focused on the individual experiences of what Rick and his wife Abi wanted.
It's turning point of "They can go home.." that really bothers me. Mainly because if this hadn't had happened, they probably wouldn't have been violent and killed people.
The Titans should have been quarantined and supervised until both Titan Rick and Titan Tally could be shipped off to Saturn's moon.
Sending Titan Rick and Titan Tally home just caused unneeded action scenes....If the producers really wanted an action scene, they could have had it while the titans were supervised at the base.
I was under the impression that Rick and Tally would be shipped off to Titan to further the species of human kind. It would have been best if it went that direction. This would create turmoil for Titan Rick to leave earth and leave his wife for the sake of all man kind. That would have made a better story in my opinion.
The second thing that made me throw my hands up in frustration was the part in the third act when the lead scientist asked Abi to give Rick this serum that would erase his memories... Why would they ask Abi to do this ? Rick is already quarantined in a cage..can't your army guys use a tranquilizer gun? Or can't you restrained Rick even more so he doesn't attack? I don't understand why this high end top secret experimental facility would rely on the subjects wife to give him a solution. I think these people have the resources to make that happen without his wife...
She then switches the drug and runs away. There's a chase scene and now the lead scientist and army have cornered Rick, Abi, their kid and for some reason Martin's partner Dr. Freya.
Martin then orders his lackeys to shoot them and they decide against it? Why? Because they don't want to kill a women and child. That's fair. But at the same time, Isn't all of humanity at stake here? Abi is now selfishly "saving" her husband for what? I thought Abi knew that Rick would evolve and be shipped off to titan. Why is there resistance from her?
We're told that in 10 years or so most of humanity will starve and most of earth will be uninhabitable...this would make it seem that this is their only shot to save their species. It would seem that Prof. Martin is then making a huge sacrifice for all of humanity...why make him the antagonist in the end here?
This story went off the rails in the third act. I could have instead liked to have seen a story about the individual sacrifice for humanity instead. Tally Shouldn't have died.
What should have happened after the surgery scene was Rick resisting because he's told he has to repopulate titan with tally. Rick being angry about this decision made on his behalf. Rick resisting and becoming violent (this way the producers can have their action scene). Scientists and soldiers sedate him and force him and Tally to go off to titan. Abi's turmoil and emotional sacrifice to let this happen. Then finally, you can have both happy endings where we see Rick and Tally on Titan adjusting to the environment, and also scientist back on earth implementing the titan projects to civilians etc.
I don't write these movies so they don't come out how I'd wish they would...
All in all, the ending just seems horrible. We see Dr. Abi ambiguously working on something. We're led to believe it's a continuation of the Titan project.... Then...we see Rick...alone on Titan....I guess he needs to be there to survive...but what is he going to do there all alone?
Anyway, I don't usually write reviews, but this third act messed with my suspense of disbelief so much that I had to write it out. I don't think I'd recommend this movie.
and for the filmmakers, If you can't do the 3rd act right, don't do any of it at all.
There's a moment at the end of the second act where Rick Janssen, The protagonist and successful experiment has a major medical emergency. He goes into surgery. We also see all of the other subjects including Tally Rutherford, go into surgery as well. It seems without this surgery, they would all die.
During this surgery montage we see that the majority of the participants have died except our protagonist Rick and Tally. Rick's wife, Abi now gets to see her husband. We can now see Rick and Tally completely altered humans. They have evolved past their human state.
This is a really interesting moment...then....for whatever reason...the lead scientist, Martin says "They can go home..."
What?....Your experiment is successful and you don't want to monitor or study your experiment anymore?...you know that beings with this DNA can be violent and yet you want to release it back to the public? You're not worried that your subjects could be harmed or potentially die in an unsupervised environment?
This is a stupid, stupid decision by the head scientist of this experiment.
This movie upsets me because it had SO much potential to be great. This movie started out with the premise of the survival of the human species. It seemed as if Professor Martin's goal was for human kind to survive outside of earth. He's the good guy...but the third act suddenly made Martin the antagonist...this was completely unwarranted.
The third act became less about humanity as a whole and focused on the individual experiences of what Rick and his wife Abi wanted.
It's turning point of "They can go home.." that really bothers me. Mainly because if this hadn't had happened, they probably wouldn't have been violent and killed people.
The Titans should have been quarantined and supervised until both Titan Rick and Titan Tally could be shipped off to Saturn's moon.
Sending Titan Rick and Titan Tally home just caused unneeded action scenes....If the producers really wanted an action scene, they could have had it while the titans were supervised at the base.
I was under the impression that Rick and Tally would be shipped off to Titan to further the species of human kind. It would have been best if it went that direction. This would create turmoil for Titan Rick to leave earth and leave his wife for the sake of all man kind. That would have made a better story in my opinion.
The second thing that made me throw my hands up in frustration was the part in the third act when the lead scientist asked Abi to give Rick this serum that would erase his memories... Why would they ask Abi to do this ? Rick is already quarantined in a cage..can't your army guys use a tranquilizer gun? Or can't you restrained Rick even more so he doesn't attack? I don't understand why this high end top secret experimental facility would rely on the subjects wife to give him a solution. I think these people have the resources to make that happen without his wife...
She then switches the drug and runs away. There's a chase scene and now the lead scientist and army have cornered Rick, Abi, their kid and for some reason Martin's partner Dr. Freya.
Martin then orders his lackeys to shoot them and they decide against it? Why? Because they don't want to kill a women and child. That's fair. But at the same time, Isn't all of humanity at stake here? Abi is now selfishly "saving" her husband for what? I thought Abi knew that Rick would evolve and be shipped off to titan. Why is there resistance from her?
We're told that in 10 years or so most of humanity will starve and most of earth will be uninhabitable...this would make it seem that this is their only shot to save their species. It would seem that Prof. Martin is then making a huge sacrifice for all of humanity...why make him the antagonist in the end here?
This story went off the rails in the third act. I could have instead liked to have seen a story about the individual sacrifice for humanity instead. Tally Shouldn't have died.
What should have happened after the surgery scene was Rick resisting because he's told he has to repopulate titan with tally. Rick being angry about this decision made on his behalf. Rick resisting and becoming violent (this way the producers can have their action scene). Scientists and soldiers sedate him and force him and Tally to go off to titan. Abi's turmoil and emotional sacrifice to let this happen. Then finally, you can have both happy endings where we see Rick and Tally on Titan adjusting to the environment, and also scientist back on earth implementing the titan projects to civilians etc.
I don't write these movies so they don't come out how I'd wish they would...
All in all, the ending just seems horrible. We see Dr. Abi ambiguously working on something. We're led to believe it's a continuation of the Titan project.... Then...we see Rick...alone on Titan....I guess he needs to be there to survive...but what is he going to do there all alone?
Anyway, I don't usually write reviews, but this third act messed with my suspense of disbelief so much that I had to write it out. I don't think I'd recommend this movie.
and for the filmmakers, If you can't do the 3rd act right, don't do any of it at all.