The Midnight Sky | Netflix

Zirax · 26 Dec 2020 at 16:23

neoboy said:
Pretty and well acted but ultimately felt mostly empty and pointless.

Pretty much my thoughts. It filled some time but on the whole I have zero desire to watch it again.

elmuzzy66. · 26 Dec 2020 at 16:36

Visuly very pretty and crisp.But story and some scenes felt like I had seen before in other movies. Eg. Space walk. Also found the earth scenes more scifi, he fell into cold water and was fine

XeNoN89 · 26 Dec 2020 at 22:45

Looked nice in 4k but was pretty average

HoneyBadger · 27 Dec 2020 at 00:45

Rexxar said:
Started pretty well, lost interest about halfway, and the ending was poor in my opinion... could have been much better.

Yeah, my thoughts exactly.

Glanza · 27 Dec 2020 at 09:44

Looked well but didn't really go anywhere, felt more like an oscar bate film. Not sure why they think making a slow film makes it potentially oscar worthy, made Ad Astra feel like an none stop action flick.

200sols · 27 Dec 2020 at 10:39

It was mediocre at best. Clooney was boring and uninspiring, the visuals did all the heavy lifting.

Hedge · 27 Dec 2020 at 13:51

One of the most tedious things I've watched in years.

Just bundled a bunch of sci fi clichés together and boy was it boring.

Gerard · 27 Dec 2020 at 15:54

"A mysterious global catastrophe". In other words they couldn't be bothered to come up with something so it's not even explained at all.

Uther · 27 Dec 2020 at 16:05

Terminal_Boy said:
Easy on the eye, easy on the brain. Ideal Xmas viewing.

Basically this. Not one I'd go out of my way to watch again though.

Nitefly · 27 Dec 2020 at 19:21

This wasn’t inherently bad in any obvious way save for the fact that it felt overly familiar and derivative. Quite watchable / passable in most regards.

Impressively bombastic for a TV movie.

Calpol · 27 Dec 2020 at 22:30

Watched this last night. It did nothing to hold my attention. In fact I'd go so far as to say it was expensive looking mediocrity at best.

Bickaxe · 29 Dec 2020 at 11:34

Gerard said:
"A mysterious global catastrophe". In other words they couldn't be bothered to come up with something so it's not even explained at all.

Watched it last night. Apparently, even the book (Good Morning, Midnight) doesn't explain it either.
They added extra bits to make it more interesting too from what I can gather. Book must be a snooze-fest.

Fubsy · 29 Dec 2020 at 14:37

Does the "event" even need explaining? Not sure it would make any difference to the situations in the film and would just be a distraction to the (very bland and limited) story that's being told.

wolfie138 · 7 Jan 2021 at 10:13

naff film, cliche city. the swimming bit was stupid and they did a stupid shaymalan-esque attempt to misdirect the girl being a hallucination.

Minusorange · 7 Jan 2021 at 10:18

neoboy said:
Pretty and well acted but ultimately felt mostly empty and pointless.

Perfectly sums it up, it's like the story just has a middle but no beginning or no real end

Rroff · 7 Jan 2021 at 10:20

Calpol said:
expensive looking mediocrity

It was literally expensive medicority incarnate.

So bland you can't even really take offense to it.

hood1971 · 7 Jan 2021 at 16:27

Minusorange said:
Perfectly sums it up, it's like the story just has a middle but no beginning or no real end

This can work if it is very well done. The Road (both book and film) were gripping even without much context of beginning and end, and was a far more bleak.
This film was just an empty pretty shell