If this movie had the same feeling and quality of film throughout as it had in the first half, I would have rated it 8, maybe even 9. It shows a guy trying to build a huge rocket to go into space with. He was an astronautical engineer, but he quit just when he could have gotten on a space mission because his father killed himself. Determined not to be a quitter like his dad, he keeps fighting overwhelming odds to build his rocket.
Now this, combined with the acting and directing skills of Billy Bob Thornton, gave a great feeling to the movie. You could feel the drama and huge intellectual impact this story is going to have on you. Then everything went sour. Science was thrown down the hatch, defeated by the obnoxious desire to give the movie a happy ending. The entire moral of the movie was switched from "follow your dream well and you might reach it" to "follow your dream blindly and you just gotta make it".
Therefore the first half of the movie : 8, the last half 6. Total: an average 7.
Now this, combined with the acting and directing skills of Billy Bob Thornton, gave a great feeling to the movie. You could feel the drama and huge intellectual impact this story is going to have on you. Then everything went sour. Science was thrown down the hatch, defeated by the obnoxious desire to give the movie a happy ending. The entire moral of the movie was switched from "follow your dream well and you might reach it" to "follow your dream blindly and you just gotta make it".
Therefore the first half of the movie : 8, the last half 6. Total: an average 7.