Terrible. Zero imagination
931558
Terrible.  Zero imagination, and narrow application to those who wish to be Christian.  This man lacks the true backbone to go beyond ancient institutions that are divisive forces in this world.  He could display more manhood by having at least more bravery in his willingness to acknowledge what can be said to be true in the world.  This lack in questioning/imagination makes this book's, which is meant to bear good advice for young men, application sparse and unuseful in an evolving world.
3767761
I've read better fan fiction on line for free.
Uninteresting characters, paper thin plot, not a scare to be found. Deleated it off my Kindle to make room for ANYTHING else.
Avoid.
1788516
I bought this without realizing it was not a Rebus mystery. After 30 pages, I gave up. Totally improbable characters and plot. I really wonder whether Rankin wrote this or had some hack ghost-write it for him, to take advantage of his name. An incredible piece of junk.
915455
Awful!  Terrible acting, plotless and disappointing altogether.
2393677
Terrible. No story!  Just smut. Why would something of this nature even be considered to be published?  No lead up to the event or events. I just am shocked.
3736359
I was so happy that I finished this utterly pointless, unreal and obviously made-up story. The characters, for the most part, are unreal. The plot is contrived. I liked nothing about this book.
1806532
I watched this with my 7yo daughter. What an incredibly materialistic, superficial and dumb view of humanity. Not a single plot point had any credibility and it's celebration of upper-class gits was galling. Avoid.
3485242
rubbish.  Doesn't even look like it's dancing. I've tried every kind of music too.  Even with dim lights and healthy imagination, this thing does not in the slightest look like its dancing.  More like a seizure set to music.
4947448
Wow. This movie was terrible. The only way to enjoy it is to imagine that it is a parody end of the world B-flic. Do not under any circumstances believe that this is meant to be an actual movie. No substance, rehash of original plot line, rephrasing or outright copying of original dialog quips but with 2-Dimensional juvenile versions of the original characters, and dare I say it, retarded physics.

Spoiler alert:

A mothership that's quoted as having a diameter of 3000 miles and it just has to land on earth which has a diameter of 7915 miles. Why would it need to land? Why does it need a molten core when there are plenty of empty planets with molten cores? It was pretty ridiculous. Characters were able to take top level aircraft and come and go as they please with no clear chain of command or restrictions. I can sometimes forgive these kinds of things in movies but put them all together and just grab a bunch of characters that are just there as an homage to the originals (or worst a series of dynasty kids) and well it simply sucks.

I wanted to like it, I tried to like it , I love the original, but oh this is just terrible. Save your money and stop praising Hollywood for the production of these kinds of movies so that they stop making them. To the Hollywood producers: Are you even trying anymore or is there a computer algorithm writing a recipe for movies. All the recipe calls for is to add up the top moments of the original, combine it together with cheesy plots and scenes straight out of a soap opera, mash it together, and then bake and hope that what comes out is at least edible and if you're lucky, maybe even palatable.
927091
Totally unrealistic and absurd. You lost me at "Cuddle Bunny" and "Twinkle Pot". I felt like my intelligence was being insulted. Just too far fetched for my liking.
334033
Lousy, really dissappointing.  There is lot of promise in a story which pits man against all-conquering machines, but this team did not develop the potentialities in such a theme.  Very bad science, very inadequate imagination of the full developmental potential of a machine-based culture and its powers/potentials.  Reads like a word-processor wrote this novel.  A machine could do better.  Clearly a franchise product, a cookie-cutter product mass-manufactured for an established market (i.e. anything with the trademark DUNE in its title).
1197379
As relating to an adult's view only, this movie was terrible. The plot is non-existent, NOTHING is funny or clever and I had a smashingly lousy time sitting through this mess. The only good thing is I got a free pin when I went to see it.
2382569
OK I just rented the video.  Hadn't heard anything about the movie but like all 3 of the lead actors.  There are low budget movies that sometimes turn out to be little gems, and then there are the low budget movies that are so bad they are good in a perverted kind of way.  This one however, has absolutely no redeeming qualities of any kind.  First and foremost if you are going to make a movie that takes place on a train, then the least you should do is make it so viewers feel like you are actually on a train.  Not so here.  For the truly crappy exterior digitally created phony train, and lousy scale models, and the totally unbelievable interior sets, you never for one moment during the entire movie actually believe any of these people are on a train.  The story line, if you could call it that makes NO SENSE WHATSOEVER.  Not a clue, nothing is made clearer by the end, and the plot points along the way add to the confusion.  I for one think this might be right up there with the worst movies ever made.  Yes really that bad. zero stars, zero plot, zero plausibility, zero zero zero.  Be forewarned.  Final note: if we actually got to see Leelee Sobieski's breasts I would add 1/2 star, but we don't even get that cheap thrill.  Oh man was this a stinker of  the worst kind.  Yes it was.
3213253
can i give this no stars? i was hoping for real plans. there aren't real dimensions on these plans and nothing to do with the outside of homes either. worse book.
2150117
To be clear, despite what the description says, this is not a book about transhumans living underground, nor is it thought provoking. It's a disjointed, dull, and pointless story about vaguely magical people living... somewhere. To be clear, I became so disgusted with the book that I stopped reading after a few hours, so maybe things improve after you suffer through the beginning?

There wasn't a single description which indicated that the setting was underground. The setting descriptors were so vague I couldn't tell anything about where each scene took place.

Characters have the ability to do magical stuff which is described as controlling zero point energy. There is no such thing in real world physics. Any mention you see of zero point energy in science fiction is just a place holder for "I wanted something magical to happen here but was too lazy to figure out a coherent way of making this happen". Inventing new physics for science fiction is fine, but the reader needs to understand that it operates according to certain coherent principles. No such principles are ever made clear in this book. It's just badly written magic.

I could never tell why I was supposed to care about any of the characters. Several characters were in conflict, but I never cared who won or lost. None of the characters was interesting in the slightest. The stakes were never very clear. I could tell that the government wanted its citizens to follow some rules and the rebels wanted to follow different rules and rule instead, but it was never very clear what those differences in philosophy were, what it would mean to the lives of the characters, why anyone cared so deeply about this conflict, etc.

There is no rhyme or reason to anything that happens in this book. For example, there is a magical disease that melts people and is completely unstoppable - possibly because the best scientists working on stopping it use techniques like making clones of himself who are full grown adults (?!), but also somehow neanderthals (?!) and sending them into infection zones to melt (?!). Since the disease is unstoppable and magical it easily gets inside of isolation suits and melts the occupants. I mean, of course it does! Except for sometimes it doesn't. And it doesn't get inside the seals of whatever divides the "underground" world from the "surface" world.
3614298
Stupid.  Pointless.  I tried hard for it to be entertaining, engaging, fearful.  this ranks up with 'Eyes Wide Shut'.  Terrible.
523859
i was wrong. plot-wise, this thing is ridiculous. you have a villain who's a joke, 'recruiting' without success and leaving empty handed - no real casualties on either side and a fake battle. i'm not a bloodthirsty viewer but i feel something should really be at stake. there's a high of characters being able to do cool stuff but this is rookie simple.
seriously, the 'hidden' message for bella (is that her name) is laughable. sure, no one else would think to look at the book. she's super intelligent that way. oh btw she gives birth and instead of hanging out with her fast maturing child she goes off to have endless sex with edward (that's his name, right?)
and here's the real creeper: jacob 'imprints' himself on the baby girl, who he will eventually (in 7 years) make wonderful love to. i can't understand, ever and at all, how america and the rest of the world can think this is an ok plot twist. 'oh, i couldn't have your mother... well, i'll have the fruit of her loins'. why did i pay to see this? i teach college and it's been said that this is the film series of the 21st ct. tragic.