Swing and a miss. A random man is picked to represent Earth before a tribunal of aliens evaluating whether to destroy it. Better-made than I expected, but, the first half hour is just standard divorced-dad-tries-relate-to-his-teen-daughter family drama, which goes on a little too long, until he is finally abducted from a comping trip, after which, literally everything goes on much too long. This is much too talky to be considered sci-fi, but it's not interesting talk. It's just turgid "dramatic" galactic chuffery like a Marvel Comics writer might have written for some cosmic saga, except, without the punchy succinctness. It just goes on, and on, and on, and on... you can't care about anything because nothing ever happens to care about without the characters talking for so long that you lose interest. And then, when the main plot is over, the movie continues another half hour, with him home on earth, where we're supposed to care about his improved relationship with his family enough that another 30 minutes of it, occasionally punctuated by him looking up at the sky or looking at astronomy books, are entertaining to us. Nope. Like, seriously, someone needs to take a screenwriting course. At some point, you have to know when to stop. Beginning, middle, end. It shouldn't be that hard.
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