Director Robert Zemeckis is known for pushing tech boundaries in films like Back to the Future, Forrest Gump and The Polar Express. This time he’s adapting the design of a graphic novel to tell the story of one space thru history. The camera remains static in a wide shot, as we watch it evolve thru time to include indigenous people, Colonial construction and the final house thru several decades. The primary thrust is the tale of one family that includes Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, as they de-age and age thru the years. There are other mini-plots from other periods. This all sounds cool and it is. It also lacks much emotional resonance, primarily because of the distant camera and the jumping plot. There are threads of common human experience in the stories, but the disjointed structure and short episodes makes them less interesting and involving. A flat, failed visual effects experiment. 
(1.5 / 5)
