Sorry, sci-fi and Clooney fans, but this one seems silly to me. Byline: Astronaut visits space station and soon his dead wife, friends and fellow astronauts show up one after another. Makes us wonder if an alien intelligence has read said astronaut's mind and is tricking him into returning said station to Earth for its own inscrutable purposes.
For 1985-92 Outer Limits fans, this is familiar territory. Humans in outer space typically see lost loved ones and/or have their minds taken over by aliens, who, having no "lives" of their own, just hover in space, waiting for human victims to come by to be victimized. Not that The Outer Limits doesn't have some good stories, but rather that the writers pepper their young audiences with aliens getting inside their skins or inside their minds, to the point where we've come to expect these once-novel, now-tired sci-fi clichés.
Fans of "clairvoyant" John Edward, who "connects" fans to their deceased relatives, may also find this kind of thing rewarding, as it perpetuates the dead-coming-back-to-visit-the-living idea. I wouldn't call this sort of film "science fiction," as there is no science and it promotes the idea that when humans go into space they see not what the universe gives them but what they want to see - lost loved ones and fanciful and tantalizing vistas that have nothing to do with the mind-boggling universe that actually exists.
I thought Robin Williams' "What Dreams May Come" explored this territory much better and more imaginatively, even if it was meant to represent the after-life and is not "sci-fi."
For 1985-92 Outer Limits fans, this is familiar territory. Humans in outer space typically see lost loved ones and/or have their minds taken over by aliens, who, having no "lives" of their own, just hover in space, waiting for human victims to come by to be victimized. Not that The Outer Limits doesn't have some good stories, but rather that the writers pepper their young audiences with aliens getting inside their skins or inside their minds, to the point where we've come to expect these once-novel, now-tired sci-fi clichés.
Fans of "clairvoyant" John Edward, who "connects" fans to their deceased relatives, may also find this kind of thing rewarding, as it perpetuates the dead-coming-back-to-visit-the-living idea. I wouldn't call this sort of film "science fiction," as there is no science and it promotes the idea that when humans go into space they see not what the universe gives them but what they want to see - lost loved ones and fanciful and tantalizing vistas that have nothing to do with the mind-boggling universe that actually exists.
I thought Robin Williams' "What Dreams May Come" explored this territory much better and more imaginatively, even if it was meant to represent the after-life and is not "sci-fi."