movie review - Beyond White Space
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-seven years and one million words
Toronto, 2019.05.09
This is a sci-fi piece about a crew that hunts space whales! The crew is comprised of various scruffy types with their own agendas. Which becomes a problem when they're attacked by space pirates! No, space monsters! No, both! One of the agendas is ascension, and that character has it in mind to dive into the white null-space where the whales go. This is basically that guy in "Sunshine" that wants to directly observe the glory in the sun.
Anyway, it's a bit rough in that way that things get when they're trying too hard to be tough. And the CGI is slick in a way that robs some scenes from their gravitas: just a bit too rushed.
That said, I enjoyed it. Recommended. For fans of Sci-Fi on a budget.