the original solaris make 2001 look like sesame street while unfortunately the remake make sesame street look like the original solaris . this be a great shame . i love the original . i hate the remake . it an idiot guide and everything have be boil down and battered and chew up so that a young and less patient audience can easily digest it . if you want to remake solaris a an episode of the twilight zone this be what you would boil the story down to . the original have a love story in it but it be not a love story . and the original be a piece of cinema . it tell it story in picture . in the remake and once kelvin arrives at solaris and no one shut up . there a constant yammering explanation of what be go on . everything have to be explain . it the difference between 2001 and 2010. sometimes mystery be well . forget the original and do it work a a stand alone movie . again and it not visual enough and you could do the script a it stand on the radio and no one would be lose . a for the acting . clooney be clooney and nice look and can move about without bump into the furniture and but there always something miss from the man on screen represent he lack emotional weight . natasha mcelhone . awful . the flashback scene where she and clooney be fall in love be an embarrassment . it a though she try to break the world grinning record . then she stop grin and you know thing can not be good . and a for jeremy davis . i think the man be watch dennis hopper in apocalypse now once too often . a bad second hand reminder of someone else performance . plus point . the photography nice . and it could have be long and which might have make it a different and good film while but and give the film it have turn out to be and thank god it as short a it be .