Review of The Aeronauts (2019) by Cag345 — 12 Jan 2020

The ambition exceeds the proposal of this movie, let's start there. The attempts of the director and the pair of actors to cope with a film that is conducted only by a scoop of a balloon trip and the ambitions of both protagonists are notorious. On the one hand we have a phenomenal Felicity Jones, who in love with heaven (although traumatized by previous experience) decides to help the scientist interpreted by Eddie Redmayne (not very expressive and giving a somewhat bland interpretation, far from the profile that this actor had been giving in previous films) to predict the weather.

The film does not contextualize necessary in the past of the protagonists and the little narrative that it provides is not enough to drive this trip. Although it is only based on the real history of the aircraft, the film fails to empower enough to clearly justify its existence. It is not a bad film, do not get me wrong, Jones successfully loads with the whole plot and manages that as a spectator we can be astonished enough, so that in some moments we forget the lazy of the script and that there is no great ambition of the director, for a proposal that leaves with the feeling of being something better.