Opening into a haunting and environmentally rich world in the first act to just sets us all up for misery when it concludes, to summarise its a load of nonsense right after. Conjuring up events and characters that could bounce off any of Jacob Eldori or Josh Brolin’s characteristics to move time along, and that’s its only purpose. Some character building moments that are just forced to create progression that never felt earned.

Everyone phones in their roles, even Ridley Scott, Brolin infuses some life and energy with ease within his role albeit one he’s done before, but when we’re being subjected to such tedious work with their performances and the writing, it’s hard to become invested.

Alison Janney and her character were jarring to the story at first, contrasting both the tone and setting and plays off the confusion, then she is out of the film. Everything that they add to show another side of this virus-riddled world, and it’s gone quicker than the time Eldori would actually take to prepare taking off in his Cessna. It comes off lazy to us watching and in terms of dedication to the source material.

No style and no substance, just naturalistic visuals that belong more in an IMAX documentary than a movie with the cast and crew behind this. There’s not enough aerial sequences or time stuck in the cockpit that could breathe some life into this dull, monotonous narrative.