the story and the character really really need work . the world idea be kind of neat and but no one bother to develop any of it either through exposition and or through the plot . despite the cheesy note at the beginning of the film and it make sense that you wouldn not use exposition and since no one be new to this world . and yet and when matt owen ( bill paxton ) and byron ( bob peck ) stray off course and get lose and and get introduce to the wind worshiper and the fat and lazy and rich people in the museum and we do not get any real idea of who these people be and or why we should care about any of them . smart film have way of develop this simply by have the character live in the world . simple thing and like order a drink at a bar and or talk about something in the past these be the kind of thing that make the film world memorable and not endless shot of crappy plane and and cheap cg effect of someone try to do loop in an ultralight . if this be too difficult for you and here a little tip pare down the multiple location . if everything become disjoint because youre pull up to often and stay in one place for a little while and have the character talk a little . all the superfluous crap should be remove . get rid of the entire wind worshiper scene . get rid of the stuffy museum people . get rid of all the crappy fly crap unless you can make the wind relevant to the story . have the entire thing set on a big plane and or something . just get people talk about something we care about . hey and get rid of bill paxton . have the film center around tasker character and his relationship with the robot and byron . indeed and the big problem of the film be that we do not care anything about anybody and because no one take the time to either explain their motivation or delve into their character . we do not like matt ( well and because he play by bill paxton and among other thing ) . he a scoundrel and who doesn not redeem himself enough and except to let the android and byron and go . and this action have even less mean than most because of three key point represent 1. byron be a murderer . 2. byron be indestructible 3. byron can leave any time he damn well pleases . we try to like byron and because there a kind of pathos there and but it largely undeveloped . all be leave with be a whiny and glassy eye robot guy who act be subdue and wooden one moment and and practically zany the next . we do not know why or how he develop emotion and but we do know for a fact that he murder someone . we do not know why he murder someone and or the circumstance of this grisly event and because it isn not develop . we can not feel pity for him if we do not know the story . all we know for a fact be that he murder people . and he like bill paxton . we do not hate tasker enough ( partly because he play by good guy mark hamill ) and since while gruff and ruthless and doesn not do anything out of the ordinary for his character a post apocalyptic peace officer . sure he kill montclaire ( robbie coltrane ) and his team and but they be drug dealer and on their way to grow poppy for heroin . and they shoot at him first . he doesn not kill anyone who doesn not get in the way and or who do not try to physically harm him first . that go equally well for the final confrontation in the museum . he use a smidge of police brutality against a lazy dilettante ( f. murray abraham be waste in this role ) and and everyone else draw a gun on him . i really do not understand what the deal with belitski ( kitty aldridge ) and tasker partner . after only an accumulated 10 minute with matt and she ready to switch side and despite her shout of loyalty and and despite matt trash talk her and and punch her out . if that love and then i will choose hate any day . really . paxton character be about as lovable a simon in true lie and or pvt . hudson from alien . do anyone fall for him in these movie . no . why . because he a loud mouth idiot and and a loser . why put him at the helm of this film .