The Titan (15.)
Directed by Lennart Ruff.
Starring Sam Worthington, Taylor Schilling, Tom Wilkinson, Agyness Deyn, Nathalie Emmanuel, Corey Johnson and Noah Jupe. 95 mins.
Thirty years from now: the planet earth is blue but professor Wilkinson thinks there's something we can do; move to Titan, a moon of Saturn. It's inhospitable but rather than reshape the celestial body in our image, the professor plans to reshape people in its image. The group of volunteers on a military base taking part in a process of forced evolution - a combination of Rocky training montage and chemotherapy - get more than they bargained for. Viewers, rather less.
There's a critical lack of energy and Wilkinson's plan is too extreme, and too absurd, for the film to carry any weight as an investigation into what it means to be human. There is no great dilemma in Sam Worthington being turned into something less than human: his taciturn, inert screen presence suggests he's that already. Nobody here really gets to make a case for the richness of humanity: Agyness Deyn is reduced to supplier of unconvincing reaction shot; her big line at the climax is “yep.”
Directed by Lennart Ruff.
Starring Sam Worthington, Taylor Schilling, Tom Wilkinson, Agyness Deyn, Nathalie Emmanuel, Corey Johnson and Noah Jupe. 95 mins.
Thirty years from now: the planet earth is blue but professor Wilkinson thinks there's something we can do; move to Titan, a moon of Saturn. It's inhospitable but rather than reshape the celestial body in our image, the professor plans to reshape people in its image. The group of volunteers on a military base taking part in a process of forced evolution - a combination of Rocky training montage and chemotherapy - get more than they bargained for. Viewers, rather less.
There's a critical lack of energy and Wilkinson's plan is too extreme, and too absurd, for the film to carry any weight as an investigation into what it means to be human. There is no great dilemma in Sam Worthington being turned into something less than human: his taciturn, inert screen presence suggests he's that already. Nobody here really gets to make a case for the richness of humanity: Agyness Deyn is reduced to supplier of unconvincing reaction shot; her big line at the climax is “yep.”
