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movie review - The Midnight Sky

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

I really wanted to enjoy this movie about a scientist struggling to resolve a global climate crisis while a space mission is returning to the ruined planet. The mission includes his daughter but also has the knowledge of a planet to which humanity can relocate (as if we deserve it).

But the movie's many problems got in the way: too slow, too bleak, and too much of a forgone conclusion that things were going to work out a certain way. Also, there was an unrealistic relationship between the only two characters in the thing. It would be a major spoiler to say more, but yikes.

And then there's the prospect that the ship's tiny crew will somehow repopulate either Earth or the new planet that they confirmed is inhabitable. It's too small a population and it's so obviously going to result in trouble that I don't know why the plot hinged on its success.

Not recommended.