THE MIDNIGHT SKY will undoubted be compared to other films such as ARCTIC or AD ASTRA, but unlike AD ASTRA, THE MIDNIGHT SKY remains somewhat engaging, ambitious (ARCTIC is the better of the three), and intriguing.
The downfall of this movie is that it tries to tell two different stories that intertwine, and surprisingly a third one that doesn't fit all. The astronaut storyline is by far the most interesting part of the film. But everything with George Clooney, with the exception of this little girl, who is magnificent by the way, fell very flat for me and in ways felt very bland.
There's also a sequence set in space where the actors were fully rendered in CGI and it looked Bad. It took me out of the movie for a few minutes and because of that I had trouble getting back on track.
It's worth watching with only half a bucket of popcorn
The downfall of this movie is that it tries to tell two different stories that intertwine, and surprisingly a third one that doesn't fit all. The astronaut storyline is by far the most interesting part of the film. But everything with George Clooney, with the exception of this little girl, who is magnificent by the way, fell very flat for me and in ways felt very bland.
There's also a sequence set in space where the actors were fully rendered in CGI and it looked Bad. It took me out of the movie for a few minutes and because of that I had trouble getting back on track.
It's worth watching with only half a bucket of popcorn