{"id":139622,"date":"2020-12-22T23:06:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T20:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/george-clooneys-sci-fi-flick-bungles-ending\/"},"modified":"2020-12-22T23:06:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T20:06:30","slug":"george-clooneys-sci-fi-flick-bungles-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/george-clooneys-sci-fi-flick-bungles-ending\/","title":{"rendered":"#George Clooney’s sci-fi flick bungles ending"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#George Clooney’s sci-fi flick bungles ending<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s the journey, not the destination\u201d is a popular lie that\u2019s printed on inspirational posters in guidance counselors\u2019 offices all across America. The reassuring phrase is particularly egregious, however, when app<\/a>lied to movies<\/a>, in which a bad ending can make the preceding two hours feel like a humongous waste of your time.<\/p>\n

So it goes with \u201cThe Midnight Sky,\u201d a good-up-to-a-point science<\/a>-fiction film directed by and starring George Clooney. At the film\u2019s most entertaining heights, it recalls the novels of Ray Bradbury and the Matt Damon flick \u201cThe Martian.\u201d But its final twist is an extremely implausible, easy way out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You want your money back, but it\u2019s on Netflix.<\/p>\n

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\n Running time: 122 minutes. Rated PG-13 (some bloody images and brief strong language). On Netflix.\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Much has been said about Clooney\u2019s 28-pound weight loss for the part, and deservedly so. The stud looks nothing like his old heartbreaker self, more closely resembling David Letterman after he retired from \u201cThe Late Show\u201d and grew that crazy fisherman beard.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Clooney\u2019s grizzly character is a scientist named Augustine who chooses to remain on Earth even as it faces an environmental apocalypse. He\u2019s dying of cancer and would rather finish out his last days working out of his Arctic base.<\/p>\n

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Augustine (George Clooney) tries to reunite Iris (Caoilinn Springall) with her parents in \u201cThe Midnight Sky.\u201d <\/figcaption>
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Settling into his bachelor routine \u2014 Clooney clearly prepared for this role for decades \u2014 Augustine discovers a little girl named Iris (Caoilinn Springall) hiding in a laboratory: She was been accidentally left behind when her family fled the planet. He needs to contact the spaceship her parents are on to come get her, so the pair dangerously embarks across the Arctic Circle to reach a powerful satellite communication base.<\/p>\n

That plot is standard fare in the grand scheme of sci-fi, but it is undeniably well-directed by Clooney.\u00a0He has a keen grasp of isolation and vastness, and the quietest moments are like black holes. Clooney builds suspense, too. Even though Augustine is (almost) the only person left, you always feel someone else might be lurking around the corner \u2014 thanks to both his performance and direction.<\/p>\n

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Felicity Jones as Sully in \u201cThe Midnight Sky.\u201d<\/figcaption>
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There are two other interwoven plots that come to be frustratingly important to the rotten resolution. Felicity Jones plays an astronaut named Sully who is returning to Earth with her crew, including David Oyelowo, after discovering another planet that can support human life. They should have stayed there! And some scenes are flashbacks involving Augustine and a fling named Jean (Sophie Rundle).<\/p>\n

All of them are engrossing until the lame ending scene. Clooney\u2019s film blasts off, but doesn\u2019t land.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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