So, what a relief to find many of one's worst expectations confounded. The young hero is not cute and most of the running time is taken up not with space battles but with the training of the kids, which repeatedly involves their emotions being experimented on in an under-hand way to test their limits, while also plausibly explaining the reason for their selection, i.e. that modern children will have superior mental processing speed due to playing computer games. And then the resolution is really quite unexpected in its psychological complexity. A pleasant surprise in view of the genre, and certainly a sign director Hood may yet return to form after the mess of X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
6/10
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