I am a little biased because I like Kurt Russel, but for all the claims the film was derivative or unimaginative I don't know what people are comparing it to. Its space opera with some familiar, or at least fairly talented faces. You kind of knew where it was going very early and the mind numbing distopian "what if" was pretty obvious. Its Dirty Harry with energy weapons. Not Star Wars or Alien but dialed back to Pitch Black for complexity.
