Review of The Midnight Sky (2020) by Martinmorrey — 17 Sep 2021
Many good things about this movie, including all the performances, the visuals, and the realism of many of the effects. I actually really liked the pacing. This is not an action movie, its meant to be emotional thought provoking.
It's made pretty clear early on that Clooney's character is an unreliable narrator, so lots of allowances can be made in the Arctic thread. Now for the negatives. The space thread appears to be realistic Science Fiction, but then fails to follow that through.
Clooney's approach is to filmaking is often to up the ante from the source material, for example "The Ides of March", where this works well. He's done it this time by giving Jupiter a human habitable moon, that does not and would never exist.
This is completely unnecessary for the story, and from what I can gather was not there in the book. That really spoiled the space thread for me. Other SF-nerd gripes - the space rocks that hit the spacecraft are completely unrealistic, and the apparent abscence of communication delay does not tally with the apparent passage of the spacecraft though the asteriod belt, or whatever that was meant to be.
The space thread can either realistic depiction of space travel, or be fantasy. It's tried to be both, in quite an annoying and unnecessary way.
This review of The Midnight Sky (2020) was written by Martinmorrey on 17 Sep 2021.
The Midnight Sky has generally received mixed reviews.
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