One of the dullest films I’ve seen in some time. What am I missing? A lot of people love the book, and the movie is clearly resonating with some audiences. I had to fight dozing off multiple times.
While this is technically well made, it’s also deeply boring, where literally nothing happens for long stretches of the film, save for conversations with Gosling and his weird Rocky alien friend.
The film suffers from bizarre tonal shifts, where serious moments are shot as if they could be scored with Yakkity Sax music.
The script itself is deeply inhuman.
Ryland Grace can’t seem to relate to any humans and isn’t much interested in saving humanity. The one creature he does care for, is a bizarrely sycophantic alien, who speaks like a chatbot given voice. Rocky reminded me far more of ChatGpt or Claude than E.T. or Spock.
Embrace AI instead of other people is certainly a message I guess.
And while there are some nice visuals, they’re extremely derivative of 2001, Interstellar and Star Trek. There’s nothing you haven’t seen yet in far better films, with far better scripts and much more defined characters.
Woof!