This movie was the worst because it could have been so much better. It was a mess of tropes cobbled together from science-fiction which were watered-down and made to reflect America's history of colonialism. Unfortunately, the sociological explorations into, say, the treatments of Native Americans, were mired in a ridiculously sappy love story that mirrors the Pocahontas narrative (native clutching baby visual motif included, save the baby was a stuffed bear).
As a side note: this is the second science fiction disappointment in which love was somehow a narrative fulcrum (see: Interstellar), and if this is the direction science-fiction wants to go, I might have to let myself off.
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