PrimeWire

Just OK. Good story. Good production. Poor casting. I hate serious space flight - all Earth life hangs in the balance - movies that are cast with too-young, too-cute, too-immature, too-selfish, too-unprofessional astronauts that get in silly fights, etc. The fake-ness compared to real and serious astronauts that would be on this kind of a mission is just distracting and irritating throughout. C’mon, nobody double-checks critical calculations of which all life on Earth hangs in the balance? Just too many ridiculous things that spoil what could’ve been a good movie. The blurriness at the end was also overdone and annoying, and ridiculous regarding the surprise “bad guy.” Would be 2/5 but I gave an extra point ‘cuz I love the genre. But really - too many space sci-fi movies are ruined by poor young/cutesy/unprofessional casting, I guess to appeal to young audiences. All these young actors here are good actors - I like them in other movies. But just mis-cast in this one. I’m actually willing to overlook the huge, silly plot-hole flaw (that a “big” nuke is somehow supposed to reignite a dying sun, as if the actual minuscule nuke (the whole planet Earth is minuscule compared to the sun) is anything even close in energy to a hum-drum random solar flare, and that there’s no reason/physics to suggest a nuke would effect the sun by making it get brighter, etc.), as most sci-fi is weak on the sci side. But at least the story, writing and cast should be somewhat realistic.