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