POSITIVES…
No surprise here, but Natalie Portman is really good in her role as astronaut Lucy Cola.
The story of Lucy’s character progression from the beginning of the movie until the end is fascinating, and is the driving factor to watch the whole thing.
Supporting cast is great here too, from Jon Hamm, Dan Stevens, Ellen Burstyn, and several more.
The last act was particularly solid, and one of the main reasons to see this movie.
NEGATIVES…
This movie plays around with several film aspect ratios, and while you would initially think that there’s an important purpose on why that is, in the end if felt pointless. It was like an excuse to try and keep your attention.
Why did it need to keep your attention? Because besides the performances, the story deliberately moves at a frustrating pace. There’s a lot of meandering going on here.
At about 2 hours long, the movie felt much longer to sit through than it should feel.
I get that there’s a purpose to Pearl Amanda Dickson’s character of Blue Iris being in this movie, but I honestly thought there wasn’t much point of her being in the story. Kinda a waste of the character’s time.
Although it is loosely based on a true story, there were some plot turns that didn’t help make me like the movie more. Definitely less.
Oh, and whether they were actual true events or not, there is a bit of derivativeness to parts of the story.
The moment the song “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” actually shows up in the movie somehow lands like a dud. I was all “THAT’S when you play that song?!”
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