Review of Tomorrowland (2015) by Kuri A — 21 Sep 2015

Tomorrowland is not necessarily a bad movie, it has a few solid concepts, but the drawbacks outweigh them. First of all, Brad Bird does a fine job as director but this was a bad story and even his superb skill couldn't save it.

Michael Giacchinno's score is wonderous and magical and, as ever, doesn't disappoint. However, in the end, Tomorrowland has more in common with Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged than is healthy or is ethically acceptable.

In that book, the world's innovators, scientists and industrialists go to some idyllic world that they build for themselves and leave the rest of us to struggle, starve and perish because, apparently, we are too dumb to join or understand them.

Writer Damon Lindelof was going for the opposite of this very idea, but he failed to realise that the path to that goal was not a circle but a straight line and thus ended up right where he was running from.

Oh yeah, I can't believe that Lindelof did the same f**cking thing as he did in Prometheus (2011), someone should tell him that if you want to avoid a falling structure, you don't run in the the direction in which it is falling, just jump sideways and watch it fall besides you.