Director: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Jeremy Davies, Viola Davis, Ulrich Tukur, John Cho, Morgan Rusler, Shane Skelton, Donna Kimball
Certificate: 12A
Running time: 99 minutes

Based on the novel by Stanislaw Lem, and previously adapted for the screen in 1972 by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky, Solaris is essentially a psychodrama set on a space station.

The story focuses on psychologist Chris Kelvin, played by George Clooney, and his attempts to figure out the strange goings-on at the space station. Clooney gives a fair enough performance, although anyone hoping to see him being the charming lead that he is more akin to playing in such films as Ocean's Eleven or Out Of Sight will be sorely disappointed.

As for the other cast members, Natasha McElhone plays Rheya. She gives a fair performance as the latest 'visitor' to the space station, taking the form of Kelvin's dead wife.

Viola Davis plays Helen Gordon, but she does not have enough screen time for us to find out what is troubling her character on the space station. Jeremy Davies, playing Snow, is more annoying than anything else, as he talks with his hands too much, and uses incomplete sentences all the time.

With a film that is produced by James Terminator Cameron, directed by Steven Ocean's Eleven Soderbergh, and starring George Clooney, you could be forgiven for expecting something special of the on-screen product………and you'll be very disappointed if you did. The film is too slow-paced, and NOTHING SEEMS TO HAPPEN!

It is essentially Event Horizon with all the good bits removed, and is one of the most boring films I have seen in quite some time. I was actually tempted to walk out as the film is that boring, but I sat through it, enduring it for review purposes, and was rewarded for my patience by the end credits rolling: never have they been more warmly received.

My advice: Avoid this film in the same manner as you would people holding clipboards on a busy shopping street, and the "Gouranga" woman.