George Clooney s latest is a boring mess by Graham Hillard Print this article
In days of yore, when “opening night” meant something other than a movie’s initial arrival in one’s Netflix queue, I would have gotten dressed and driven into town to see
The Midnight Sky, a new sci-fi thriller based on the novel
Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton. On Christmas Eve, I merely pressed a button. Though the latter feels dismayingly incommensurate to the exertion required to create large-scale feature films, it represents the exact amount of effort one should expend in pursuit of the streaming giant’s latest stinker.
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Every era of humanity has been convinced, at some point, that it represents the end times - either as the peak of experience, evolution, and development, or due to some mumbo-jumbo apocalyptic superstition. So it would be hubristic for our modern convictions to be seen as extraordinary. The differencemaker now is that we have more than enough stats indicating ecological collapse that our dourest forecasts have a greater likelihood than, say, a wolf eating the sun or the dead rising from their interment.
So while people have always considered and contemplated their own mortality, apocalyptic fiction, especially depicting any kind of eco-Armageddon, inevitably must face the very real possibility that we may be gone, as individuals and as a species. How do we face that ending?
The Midnight Sky review: George Clooney directorial misses the mark
The Midnight Sky drifts along almost meaninglessly, between space and Earth, not able to decide what it wants to be except an elegy to heroism.
Rating: 2 out of 5 December 23, 2020 6:02:05 pm
The Midnight Sky is streaming on Netflix. (Photo: Netflix)
The Midnight Sky movie cast: George Clooney, Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, Caoilinn Spingall, Kyle Chandler
The Midnight Sky movie director: George Clooney
The Midnight Sky movie rating: Two stars
As if we weren’t already looking at a bleak end to 2020 comes along a film where the world is 29 years from hence, humanity is endangered due to contaminated air, the only healthy beings are in a spaceship drifting up there, and George Clooney is ailing, and in a dirty plaid shirt, his head nearly shaved, and his face all covered with a messy, grey, long beard. Not only has one of the ‘World’s Sexiest Man Alive’ decided to
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Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd is an empty man. A Civil War veteran without a family, he wanders the Western Plains, reading stories from the many newspapers he has in tow, bringing them to audiences hungry for diversion. He ekes out a living on the meager donations he collects, just enough to get him to the next town. He has no true direction, every day much like the last. So, when his path crosses that of a young white girl who s been kidnapped by natives, he s unsure how to proceed. His confusion mounts when he s charged with returning her to her family, a journey through violent, treacherous territory that will test them both while leading them to their true purpose.
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