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Lord of the Flies on a spaceship. That’s more or less it.
Set in a world that’s dying of drought and disease, thirty children are created in vitro from eugenically-selected donors and raised within the confines of the facility. When they are old enough, they’re put on a generation ship that will take them and their children on an 86-year journey to a new planet that their grandchildren will colonise to ensure the survival of the species. Educated to be a fully self-reliant society, they are nevertheless accompanied by one of their teachers Richard (Colin Farrell), who volunteers to supervise them. When things go wrong, as you might expect with lab-raised people, the confines of the ship turn into a barbaric dystopia ruled by madness and superstition.
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This psychological thriller, set in space, enters theaters this week.
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A scene from Voyagers.
For everyone eager to return to life in all its infinite pleasures after a pandemic, Voyagers is bound to touch a nerve.
This psychological thriller, set in space and entering theaters this week, is all about what happens to our heads and hearts after we emerge from a lockdown.
Sadly, the usually astute writer-director Neil Burger ( The Illusionist, Limitless, The Upside ) botches his provocative premise: What if 30 test-tube babies who never see sunshine or the outside world are sent on a space mission to colonize a new planet since Earth has been infected and climate-changed into near oblivion.
Young Adult thriller ‘Voyagers’ never quite takes off
Lindsey Bahr
The most surprising thing about “Voyagers,” a sci-fi thriller about a group of young adults who have been tasked with traveling to and repopulating a new planet, is that it isn’t based on a Young Adult book series. Writer and director Neil Burger, who was also behind the “Divergent” films apparently decided to cut out the Intellectual Property middleman and make his own YA statement. That said, it does borrow heavily from quite a few other sources, with shades of “Lord of the Flies,” “The Giver,” “Ender’s Game,” “Euphoria” and any number of space madness films.
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Movie review
LINDSEY BAHR | Associated Press Voyagers ★★
The most surprising thing about “Voyagers,” a sci-fi thriller about a group of young adults who have been tasked with traveling to and repopulating a new planet, is that it isn t based on a young-adult book series. Writer and director Neil Burger, who was also behind the “Divergent” films apparently decided to cut out the Intellectual Property middleman and make his own YA statement.
With a cast including Lily-Rose Depp, Tye Sheridan, Fionn Whitehead, Chante Adams, Archie Madekwe and Quintessa Swindell, nice-looking production design and a fast-moving plot, it s a very watchable film. It also unfortunately is dreadfully serious, fails to make the audience care much about anyone and feels as if it s the first book in a series when all is said and done.