`` `` Life of Pi '' is a Tom Charity fi film ; he stars as the last guy on Earth . They live in a billion-dollar birdhouse perched up above the clouds , and in a quaintly chauvinist set up , he reconnoiters the skies in a flashy starfighter prototype , while she sits at an interstellar telephone exchange and relays the commands of mission controller Sally ( an irritatingly twangy Melissa Leo ) from on high . Critic Tom Cruise sci- says movie is shot beautifully but does n't deliver . Director lacks the poetic imagination to animate this requiem , Kosinski says .
`` `` Life of Pi '' is a Tom Charity fi film ; he stars as the last guy on Earth . Critic Tom Cruise sci- says movie is shot beautifully but does n't deliver . Director lacks the poetic imagination to animate this requiem , Kosinski says .