What makes The Titan so bad is that it had an engaging premise, a promising first act, and decent actors. That lures you in enough to make you want to see where it goes.
Well, I'll tell you where it goes. Right into the toilet.
It plays out very much as if they only had budget for actors, scenery, some effects, and a decent screenwriter for the first act. Sadly, the budget must have failed then, and the janitors finished the script. (I shouldn't impugn decent, hardworking janitors that way; they probably would have done a better job.)
It just completely stops making ANY sense, AND forgets the first act. Wife keeps being shocked that the husband who signed up to be transformed is being transformed. Keeps telling the doctor who warned of a bumpy and risky transformation that he'd lied to her...because the transformation is (A) happening, and being (B) bumpy and (C) risky.
And it just keeps getting stupider from there on, all the way to the stupid, stupid end sequences.
You're left with nothing but unanswerable questions.
Like:
* What did the wife THINK was going to happen? * Why did Worthington's character suddenly totally change, bodily, after a single surgery? * What does sitting under water holding your breath have to do with breathing nitrogen? * How can he go back and forth from breathing nitrogen to breathing air -- shouldn't his breath have poisoned his wife and son? * What was the brilliant wife's long-term game-plan in giving him saline? * Why did she take along the main doctor's assistant? * Why did the woman candidate kill her husband? * Why is it OK that Worthington's character murdered innocent soldiers doing their job? * What is achieved by sending a single mutated human to Titan? * Wouldn't it have been simpler to mutate humans to be able to remain on Earth? * What animal's genes made tentacles shoot out their hands?
...and so on and so forth.
Just don't be left with this question: "Why did I watch this after so many warnings?"
Well, I'll tell you where it goes. Right into the toilet.
It plays out very much as if they only had budget for actors, scenery, some effects, and a decent screenwriter for the first act. Sadly, the budget must have failed then, and the janitors finished the script. (I shouldn't impugn decent, hardworking janitors that way; they probably would have done a better job.)
It just completely stops making ANY sense, AND forgets the first act. Wife keeps being shocked that the husband who signed up to be transformed is being transformed. Keeps telling the doctor who warned of a bumpy and risky transformation that he'd lied to her...because the transformation is (A) happening, and being (B) bumpy and (C) risky.
And it just keeps getting stupider from there on, all the way to the stupid, stupid end sequences.
You're left with nothing but unanswerable questions.
Like:
* What did the wife THINK was going to happen? * Why did Worthington's character suddenly totally change, bodily, after a single surgery? * What does sitting under water holding your breath have to do with breathing nitrogen? * How can he go back and forth from breathing nitrogen to breathing air -- shouldn't his breath have poisoned his wife and son? * What was the brilliant wife's long-term game-plan in giving him saline? * Why did she take along the main doctor's assistant? * Why did the woman candidate kill her husband? * Why is it OK that Worthington's character murdered innocent soldiers doing their job? * What is achieved by sending a single mutated human to Titan? * Wouldn't it have been simpler to mutate humans to be able to remain on Earth? * What animal's genes made tentacles shoot out their hands?
...and so on and so forth.
Just don't be left with this question: "Why did I watch this after so many warnings?"