Actors: Starring Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee
Jones, Ruth Negga, Liv Tyler, and Donald Sutherland
Rating: 9 out of 10, This is a very
interesting take on science fiction. Brad Pitt, who towers in this, plays an
astronaut in the near future whose father may or may not be sending deadly
waves of energy from across the solar system after being considered dead for
many years. Pitt is charged with journeying to Mars to make radio contact with
him. Along the way he runs across pirates on the moon and Norwegian space
baboons. This sounds like an action packed sci fi frolic but it was anything
but that. It was an intensely personal and uniformly bleak journey for Pitts
character to rediscover his humanity. It’s easy to forget just how good an
actor Pitt can be until you see him in something like this. He has to be that
good because the movie is so personal despite the breathtaking scenery he
journeys through. Too many sci fi films focus on the scenery and forget about
the story. This was so good and features the first ever climatic scenes in the
rings of the planet Neptune (didn’t even know they had em). This movie is
completely in Pitt’s hands and he delivers. Some viewers may be put off by the
austere pace and settings but the movie inexorably hits all the right marks on
Pitt’s journey.
MVP: Brad Pitt as Roy McBride saving the
world while confronting daddy issues
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