I have been begging Hollywood for a good movie and I went to Ad Astra in the hope that my cinematic prayers had been answered but alas, not.
The suspension of disbelief required for this movie was off the chart, which was surprising given NASAs promotion and commiseration with it. I mean most of the other physics goofs throughout the film were relatively minor (and well enumerated in the goofs section) but riding a nuclear explosion from Neptune to Earth and you just happen to be pointing in the right direction??? Wow, it's actually insulting.
The pace of the film started out almost like an action adventure but then broke into long periods of pointless boredom. The MacGuffin of the antimatter device was throughly useless and made no sense (blow this dangerous device up with a nuclear weapon... yeah, that's the ticket). BTW all energy effects like heat/radiation etc abide by some form of the 1/r^2 rule which is to say that the farther away you are the less effect it will have but if the device was devastating electronics on earth, billions of miles away, it would have fried to a crisp anything within a mile or so (much less people in the transmission point).
No logic in this movie and the emotional aspect makes about the same amount of sense. A complete waste of talent like Tommy Lee Jones and Donald Sutherland (happily reunited after Space Cowboys).
The suspension of disbelief required for this movie was off the chart, which was surprising given NASAs promotion and commiseration with it. I mean most of the other physics goofs throughout the film were relatively minor (and well enumerated in the goofs section) but riding a nuclear explosion from Neptune to Earth and you just happen to be pointing in the right direction??? Wow, it's actually insulting.
The pace of the film started out almost like an action adventure but then broke into long periods of pointless boredom. The MacGuffin of the antimatter device was throughly useless and made no sense (blow this dangerous device up with a nuclear weapon... yeah, that's the ticket). BTW all energy effects like heat/radiation etc abide by some form of the 1/r^2 rule which is to say that the farther away you are the less effect it will have but if the device was devastating electronics on earth, billions of miles away, it would have fried to a crisp anything within a mile or so (much less people in the transmission point).
No logic in this movie and the emotional aspect makes about the same amount of sense. A complete waste of talent like Tommy Lee Jones and Donald Sutherland (happily reunited after Space Cowboys).