4/9/2021
Tye Sheridan, Lily-Rose Depp and Fionn Whitehead play young space travelers whose expedition to colonize a distant planet spins into chaos in Neil Burger s sci-fi thriller, also starring Colin Farrell.
Writer-director Neil Burger s visually alluring but dramatically underpowered sci-fi thriller about an interplanetary mission blitzed by a hormonal explosion,
Voyagers, is basically
Lord of the Flies in space. Or
Passengers without hypersleep pods. Either way, it s not terribly original. A solid cast and stylish design work in a spacecraft whose endless corridors become sprint lanes for cinematographer Enrique Chediak s invigorating camerawork make the Lionsgate release an easy watch and a big improvement over the studio s recent sci-fi snooze,