A failing grade from Rotten Tomatoes doesn’t mean squat at the box-office. When it comes to eye-candy sci-fi Joe and Jane Popcorn always disdain or ignore what elitist critics think. But a 57% rating does mean that the riff about Joseph Kosinki being “the new James Cameron” is over. The proof is in the pudding and Kosinski has found his level as a hard working, reasonably talented provider of expensive, high-concept CG fantasias. But at best he’s a poor man’s Cameron. JK just doesn’t seem to have those JC internals — edge, discipline, super-will.
