Monday, January 13, 2020

Ad Astra


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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