Review: George Clooney’s The Midnight Sky
Earth is nigh-uninhabitable. Humanity has retreated to various space stations. Yet despite the apocalyptic circumstances, one steadfast fellow continues to do his job, the routine possibly keeping him alive. But it all changes when he unexpectedly meets a girl. George Clooney‘s
The Midnight Sky may be based on the book
Good Morning, Midnight, but it also plays like a live-action gritty reboot of
WALL-E.
We’re never told what “The Event” is that made all but the polar ice caps uninhabitable, but we do know that Augustine (Clooney, who also directs) is as terminally ill as the planet. He even gives himself dialysis every day, in between generic meals and attempts to contact the various space stations. One, named Aether, is on its way back from the moons of Jupiter. And the crew aboard, led by David Oyelowo’s Adewole and Felicity Jones’ Rembshire, are blissfully unaware of why all their transmissions remain unanswered, assu
Wed Dec 23, 2020 at 10:02am ET
George Clooney and Caoilinn Springall in Midnight Sky. Pic credit: Netflix
It has been four years since George Clooney made a movie, and when he returned, it was with a Netflix original that painted the picture of the end of the world.
The Midnight Sky is not an apocalyptic action movie but is instead a dark and brooding Netflix drama, more the speed of 2001: A Space Odyssey than anything. It even makes end-of-the-world dramas like Children of Men and The Road look action-packed in comparison.
However, there is a lot to like about The Midnight Sky.
George Clooney directs and stars in this post-apocalypic saga that intertwines the stories of an Arctic researcher, returning astronauts, and a mysterious little girl.