Review of Aniara (2019) by Tomhug — 11 Jun 2021
I think this film can't decide what it wants to be, a message film about earth, an eerie isolation-in-space drama in the manner of 2001 and Silent Running, or a film about the terrors of existential dread.
As a result, it never hits squarely among any of these targets. There's some good acting (the Astronomer) and some horrible acting (the Captain). The ending seems rushed, especially considering the pace of the preceding film, and the fact that it occurs 5,981,407 years after the opening scene.
The sex scenes seemed kind of rote and out of step with the remainder of the movie, like they might have been dropped in more for base appeal than to move the story along. The story is potentially intriguing, but frequently changes gears from one mode to the other so abruptly that no momentum or arch is achieved.
Good potential in a somewhat clumsy and inconsistent package.
This review of Aniara (2019) was written by Tomhug on 11 Jun 2021.
Aniara has generally received positive reviews.
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