They should have stuck more closely to the novel with Solaris
Stanislaw Lem was not happy with both the 1972 and 2002 film
versions because they strayed from the novel. Then again, how many
want to see an "intellectual" SF film that satirizes how we go about
trying to figure out the Universe and have such a long way to go.
Plus the alien was anything but a guy in a rubber suit and it did not
offer soundbite answers about itself or anything else.
The Fifth Element was fun at least. The woman was too skinny, though.