Atom User Reviews for Ad Astra

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Scott C.
#intense
#epic
#greatvisualfx

I feel like the general public is not going to like this film because it is thought provoking. It says a lot about the industry that it is out at the same time as a movie about gangster strippers and that's getting the buzz. In any case, this movie is visually amazing. It…

BA
Bushra Abdullah
#slow
#greatvisualfx
#boring

Visually beautiful but the plot is just an astronaut with daddy issues, ehhh

NH
Nav Harriram

Honestly think Ryan gosling or Toby Maguire could have done better. Movie was just weird. Where’s your dad? He’s in space. Go get him. Ok, goes and gets him. Hey dad come home. No son , Where’s your dad? I had to let him go. You traveled that far and you let him go. Yeah

CT
Cate Thomson
#cliché
#snoozefest
#slow

Waste of time

PB
Philip Betancourt
#slow
#boring

Slow movie. Very disappointed with story line. Pitt was good but the rest of the show & cast really sucked. Save your money, it not worth going to see

SN
Sang Ngo
#exploration
#humanity

exploration isn't just in space. thought provoking about coming grips to the human condition

CE
Chetan Harsha Edara

Save your time and money ...!

RH
Richard Holder
#slow
#justokay
#inspiring

liked the message in the end, but the journey was too long

NG
Nicole Gonzalez
#wtf

Bad movie.

MH
Matt Haun
#greatcast
#slow
#smart

Definitely a slow movie but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I was entertained the entire way through. I'm a sucker for space though.

KE
Kanna Emerick
#intense
#smart
#slow

Was misleading in previews. Super boring and took forever to get anywhere with any details. Both myself and my fiancé almost fell asleep during it and we are avid movie lovers.

DP
Daniel pla
#smart
#epic
#allthefeels

This is an original movie. Before I saw it, I had low expectations in Pitt's first science fiction film, but after seeing watching how well Pitt embodies his character's intense feeling of loneliness and the void he's trying to fill through the constant push into outer…

CC
Christine Clark

it is not action packed...but very thought provoking. nice change up from normal space exploration movies

AK
Anthony K
#intense
#surprising
#mustsee

This movie is stunning. The visuals are very well done, you can’t help but stare in awe at how amazing space looks. Action scenes are also intense and there’s even some scary stuff. The acting and storyline is great as well. A great film indeed!

PG
Patrick Gray
#slow

Horrible movie. Slow!

RR
Roman Roman
#greatvisualfx
#mustsee
#great

Not bad

VP
Valerie Powell
#notmyfave

An internal struggle to deal with the loss of a father then finding his father is alive. tried to be a very serious emotional story but missed the point. plus space movies usually dont deliver very accurate details. very meh!

PC
Patrick Corrigan
#greatvisualfx
#greatcast
#smart

great emotional film

JB
Josh Bigham
#greatvisualfx

Really good flick. Bit of art and story telling.

KL
Kyla Lupo
#greatvisualfx
#allthefeels
#slow

It’s 2001 for this generation. Slow, beautiful to look at and ultimately the story of a father/son relationship.

KN
Ken Ng
#sucked

sucked

MR
Miriam Rushton
#greatvisualfx

visually amazing but story lacked depth

AG
Andrew Gu
#greatvisualfx
#intense
#smart

It's Bratt Pitt in space. What more do you need? Okay, seriously speaking, this movie left me in awe at the pure grandiose of it all. So many great scenes that were quite intense, other times beautiful. But this is a film-lover's film. It's slow and steady in its story, so…

AA
Abdul Armashi
#boring

It can be done in 15 mins movie instead for 2 hrs -_-

SF
Shirin Farahani
#snoozefest
#boring
#slow

Not interesting at all very boring

AD
Aashish D'Mello
#greatvisualfx
#intense
#greatcast

watch it for some of the most breathtaking cinematography you'll ever experience. Plot is quite simple, but Brad Pitt is wonderful to watch!

DG
Dino Guglietta
#slow
#boring
#depressing

a boy with daddy Issues lost in space. another way over the top cinematic display of bad ideas. the plot doesn't add up and to make matters worse its an writers block for a good ending.kids under 10 bored

DD
Danak Dabonne
#boring
#slow

I expected this to be more entertaining and thought provoking but left the theater scratching my head. Too many holes in the storyline. Gliding through space like he's hang gliding on Earth?!! GTFOH!

MS
Melissa Sauls
#slow
#wasteofmoney
#horrible

Worst movie we’ve seen in a long time. Love the actors, movie absolutely sucked.

RS
Roger Stepper
#intense
#greatvisualfx
#epic

Very well paced and beautiful cinematography

JB
Jenna Bard
#badending
#justokay

good up until the ending...

KK
Katerina Kostovska
#boring

poor plot..50 sentence of dialogue in 2 hrs...art of cinematic effects yes..but everything else just dull

PJ
phil johnson
#boring
#slow

Could have been a great story. Missed the mark.

CR
Chase Roosendaal
#anticlimactic

Interesting enough build in the story with some obvious expository characters. So much of a build up with such an anticlimactic ending. Beyond unbelievably unsatisfying!

JC
James C
#greatcast

No plot twists or complicated story lines just a simple plot with awesome acting

AV
Aditya Vardhan
#greatvisualfx

Visual are good but ultimately it's just a completely unnecessary and tedious journey by a man with daddy issues.

JK
Jacob Knowlton
#greatvisualfx
#surprising
#greatcast

Slow paced but an amazing movie if you pay attention.

MH
Marilyn Hemmes

Long trip to outer space with no pay off at the end.

AH
Ahnaf Hassan

Good for the first half, but really stopped making sense and because kinda pointless.

JT
John Tsiolas

excellent movie. must see

NY
Nam Yen

Not a bad movie, pretty good..but the plot is not as grand as Interstellar or Sunshine. Good pacing, but if you are expecting something epic.. it is not. If you strat with no expectations, then it's pretty good.

JF
Jimmy Farino

Combines the vastness of space travel with the intimate, small, innately human emotional bond between a father and son. Beautiful film

PL
prava limbu

The baboons were great 🙂 The rest of the movie is rubbish and scientifically inaccurate.

TW
ted wynne

The story is basically about a son trying to rectify his dysfunction relationship with his father, cast in space. I don’t think you need to go to outer space to deal with these problems. How about “Malcolm in the Middle” or something that doesn’t involve special effects…

GS
Garrett Sergeant

Stop flying through space. You’re not an Avenger!

AB
Ashtyn Blanchard
#justokay
#notmyfave

Felt like the story could have been so much more, but it just fell flat.

DM
Deb McBride
#slow
#greatcast
#intense

Not at all what I expected but very good.

HS
Howard Schechter
#slow
#justokay

A bit drawn out. Absent a lot of action and alot of 1st person thoughts telling the story, nearly fell asleep. No new stories that haven't been told before.

RA
Ryan Anderson
#snoozefest
#notmyfave
#pointlessstorytelling

Pointless storytelling, snooze fest, and just overall bad

TC
Tom Caswell
#boring
#slow

Brad hits a new low!

Metacritic

75
Sep 19, 2019

Aside from verging on the one-note, that focus constricts the very linear, very self-contained Ad Astra, a taut but inflexible chamber piece in a genre given to symphony.

Jake Coyle
The Associated Press
90
Sep 19, 2019

Ad Astra is beautiful, contemplative, and loaded with meaning — not an action movie, but one that leaves you with plenty to ponder.

Alissa Wilkinson
Vox
50
Sep 13, 2019

Ad Astra (Latin for “To the Stars”) has dazzling eye candy and reasonable extrapolations of what near future space colonization might look like...But like too many imitation “Space Odysseys,” it flunks that most basic test applied to science fiction of this nature. It doesn’t make us care what happens, and I, for one, don’t care to see it again.

Metacritic review by Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Movie Nation