Review of Ad Astra (2019) by Judgesmails — 19 Dec 2019

I can't give this a zero because visually this was a very nice movie. The moon rover sequence was especially good visually (although pretty stupid plot wise). But man was the plot dumb overall. Basically, the heroe's Dad goes rogue, murders his crew, and threatens to eradicate humanity.

His unemotional son gets recruited to talk some sense into him. That doesn't work, so the son goes rogue, hijacks a ship, murders it's crew, and heads to Neptune to murder his father. After a very strange encounter, he tries to save his father, but his father essentially commits suicide and jumps off into space.

The son says "screw it", and then nukes his father and rides the nuclear explosion back to Earth- no idea how he decelerates at the end of his journey. When he gets back to Earth, they apparently forget about how he murdered the crew and stole a multi billion dollar spaceship and nuked the legacy spaceship near Neptune without permission.

But by far the dumbest thing in any recent sci fi movie is when Brad Pitt uses a panel off of a space ship to shield him as he "jumps" his way all the way through Neptune's rings. In real life, they are thousands and thousands of miles wide, but in the movie, only about 50 yards.

If you watch this movie, do it on an airplane without the headphones in and work on a crossword puzzle at the same time.