Movie Review: Ad Astra

 This week, Netflix put up Ad Astra, and I sat down to watch it one afternoon.  

First, I will readily admit that watching a science fiction piece....requires a good bit of accepting the core story....whether it makes sense or not.  They did lay out the basic story over the first 15 minutes.....but it really didn't make much sense.

Second, about halfway into the film.....the craft that is carry the main character deep into space gets some distress call, to a Norwegian science station.  The pilot of the craft, and our 'hero' get into the suits, and 'walk' over to the station (no contact).  You can sense....things aren't going well.

Upon getting into the station....we find that this is a primate study situation and the monkeys got loose.  They also seem pretty violent and tend to murder folks.  Our 'hero' dispatches one of the monkeys, and drags the dead pilot back to his ship.

By the end....the basic element of the story has been resolved, and mankind can rest assured of things.

Just shaking my head....it was one of the more crappy stories of the past decade or two....that involved BIG production.  If you are going to watch it....I'd advise at least four shots of something at the beginning, and do another shot about every ten minutes until the end.