Tom McFarland

Meh. Thats literally the feeling I have after watching this. Enough boom boom to make it to the end, but thats it. The attempts as Ryan Reynolds-esque humor fall absolutely flat. Cringy tropes galore throughout. And there's zero story. Sure, watch it once. But don't expect much.

Honestly, forget what you think this movie will be like. Its not. This is the most "what the eff did I just watch" movie I've seen since the original Matrix. Except this had actual emotion to it. Wild, trippy, silly, funny, beautiful, sad, amazing action....this movie is literally everything, everywhere, all at once!

Just saw this for the first time. Fantastic film. Ending is a bit of a gut punch for some people. Not your run of the mill sci fi, and the two leads just nail it. She reminded me of someone I knew. Someone with that personality. Who wound up living with me for a short while. Outcome was not the same, but it made it pretty personal for me. Well worth the time.

Fantastic. Hopkins is absolutely riveting. Beautiful visuals.

Sure, there was quite a bit of idea borrowing, but when is there not in scifi. You dont call great lasagna "unoriginal". But...I was not prepared for that ending. At all. It just cut me down. Only thing I could say is that it would've been through the roof with Steven Straight from The Expanse. I kept seeing him in every seen.

First, this is not Star Wars, or ANY of the "going to Mars" movies that have come out in the past 2 decades. It's not a show about going to Mars and all the usual plot devices that go with that. This is a show about people struggling with the consequences of choosing to do something that takes you away from your family, because you believe it's right. A thing you may not return from. It didnt necessarily even need to be in space to tell this story. But the crushing weight of history does add to the tension. Is it Sci-fi? Well, yes, I would say it is. But like some of the best scifi, this is a show about complex characters, not laser blasters. Production quality was excellent. Score was simple but perfect. And the cinematography was almost Kubrick esque at times. The story of his daughter does get lost in the weeds some, and the other characters could've had a little more screen time, but let's be real. People are watching this for Sean Penn and Natasha Mcehoan and boy do they not disappoint. Sci fi as a genre needs to do more like this if they want to stay relevant.

Why does this movie touch me? The sense of being lost? Not where I'm supposed to be? Dealing with grief? Having been to northern China and knowing how "far away" it can feel? I dont know. Maybe a little bit of all of the above. Maybe because I still wish for that transformative experience, but I think that ship has sailed. Maybe because I wish to be found. My only regret is that I didnt see this movie 30 years ago when I still had time. The shaman is right. We are all lost. All we have is each other.