Synopsis
There's a universe between all of us.
A lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.
2020 Directed by George Clooney
A lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.
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I didn't think this was so bad but it's a testament to how basic Clooney is that he set a cute crew singalong moment to Sweet Caroline.
George Clooney proved that time is relative by making a 2 hour film that felt like 6 hours
George Clooney's The Midnight Sky is a very decent film, but it's also a truly disappointing one. Directed and staring George Clooney, alongside Felicity Jones, Kyle Chandler, David Oyelowo, Caoilinn Springall and Demián Bichi, the story follows a scientist who must venture through the Arctic Circle with a young girl to warn off a returning spaceship following a global catastrophe.
My aforementioned disappointment of this movie stems from its average nature. The Midnight Sky was a film that could have very easily been one of the year’s best. It’s got an interesting premise, a good cast and some great cinematography, yet the final production just feels rather bland as it struggles through some awkward plot twists and some rather unamusing…
George Clooney really watched Interstellar once and said "yeah, i bet i can do that too".
Six takeaways from The Midnight Sky:
1. George Clooney's beard does better acting in this than anyone else, dead or alive.
2. Blood goblets dispersed in zero gravity is deeply unnerving. Too bad the character bleeding out had zero backstory and was thus nearly impossible to care for.
3. Choosing "Sweet Caroline" for the big bonding / sing along moment reveals a lot about this movie's central demographic: made by boomers for boomers. And yet, even my boomer parents found it incredibly tepid.
4. Why do I feel obliged to watch such mediocrity just because it is popular with the Netflix algorithm?
5. It has taken a bit of criticism, but I truly am a sucker for credit scenes that…