The visuals are great but the movie not so much.

At first you have to scratch science out of science-fiction because there is none. This claims to be "in the near future" but the technology is probably centuries away. Well, maybe not the tech but what they achieved at this point would take that long. The movie left many questions unanswered instead it gives us moon-pirates and killer apes for no reason whatsoever but to have an action and a horror sequence for the trailer, I guess.

If the movie would have been even close to that description above it could have been great. Instead we get a story about a son who wants to connect with his father and finds out things about himself along the way. Yah, thanks, but you could have told this on earth as well because none of the scifi elements bear any meaning.

Oh wait - there was a message. There is no intelligent life in the universe so we should love ourselves and the people close. Even without taking position one way or the other one thing does not influence the other. And we shouldn't look in the distance for we might miss what's in front of us. Who payed for this movie ? The Church ?!

That's three writing credits by James Gray in a row that earns a solid "5"