

Most of the action and around 90 per cent of on-screen time is taken up with Mackenzie 'Mack' Wilson (Katee Sackhoff). A monolith of unknown origin is found there.

But I was – and remain – puzzled as to what I had just watched: what had happened and, crucial to a film following a path oft taken, exploring the first encounter of mankind and alien civilisation, not much clearer about what, if any, was the film's central message.Īccording to the official blurb: “After a failed mission to Mars, A.I./ARTI is now used for the 2036 mission with a few human supervisors. By the end, I was not, as many viewers appear to have been, disappointed. At the outset I had little idea what to expect from 2036 Origin Unknown.
