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[W]hen
Voyagers enters its second half it becomes more of a tired arguing match than an intriguing commentary.
Starring:
Colin Farrell, Lily-Rose Depp, Tye Sheridan, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Viveik Kalra
Directed By:
Neil Burger
Voyagers enters its second half it becomes more of a tired arguing match than an intriguing commentary.
The Commercial Space Age is seemingly before us, as weâre slowly seeing an exploration of exciting journeys out of Earthâs atmosphere. Neil Burgerâs
Voyagers challenges the freedom that
Star Trek or
Star Wars often depict when traveling among the stars. This science fiction thriller imagines the long jaunt of a group of children raised in space â doomed to spend their whole lives on their way to a destination on another world. Although it serves as an interesting thought experiment, the movie s most burning question in its space expedition is simply a sullen, âAre we there yet?â
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If nothing else, Hollywood’s latest space odyssey,
Voyagers, devises a novel solution to the conundrum of intergalactic travel, that old equation of distance versus time. The film is set in 2063, when the eggheads of an increasingly uninhabitable Earth have begun planning for a new start beyond the stars. They’ve found a planet that can sustain human life. Trouble is, it’ll take 86 years to get there. How will anyone survive long enough to establish mankind’s new home? In the sci-fi of yore, the greatest fictional minds at fictionalized NASA looked to cryogenic sleep, wormholes, and accelerated speed to cross the vast expanse of the cosmos without croaking en route. In
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A youth sci-fi action movie doesn t make any obvious wrong moves, but it s more dutiful than exciting.
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Director: Neil Burger
With: Tye Sheridan, Lily-Rose Depp, Fionn Whitehead, Colin Farrell, Chanté Adams, Viveik Kalra, Archie Madekwe, Quintessa Windell, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Madison Hu, Archie Renaux, Wern Lee.
Every era gets the youth sci-fi action movie it deserves. Twenty-five years ago, Paul Verhoeven made “Starship Troopers” (1997), and whatever you thought of that self-consciously over-the-top high-cheese parable of pinup actors battling giant bugs, there’s no denying it packed a wallop that was very late ’90s a revel in teen-idol decadence fused with rollicking tech-boom excess.
âSexyâ new movie is anything but With a movie poster that suggests itâs a sexy thriller with hot young stars is anything but what itâs selling.
Movies by Wenlei Ma Attractive young people madly running down sterilised hallways. That s it. That s the movie. OK, that s a bit facetious because there is more going on in
Voyagers, but there is a hell of a lot of running down hallways over the movie s 108-minute running time. Generously described as
Lord of the Flies in space ,
Voyagers is ostensibly an exploration of what happens when you trap 30 bright young things in a tin can on an 86-year mission to colonise a new planet.