Roy Mcbride is an astronaut who embarks on a complex and dangerous mission out of a desire to find out the truth about his father, who disappeared on a similar mission 30 years ago.
Ad Astra is a sci-fi drama that deals with common human themes such as ambition and one's feelings towards disappointing or absent parents. We see here the predisposition to wanting to know one's roots, as well as the undeclared desire, hidden under a mask of apathy, to find out that the guilty parents have some mitigating circumstances. Brad Pitt is very efficient and skilled as always in rendering a wide range of emotions with very little effort, helped by his cynical and bored monologue his character delivers as also the storyteller.
With little action and more of an invitation to reflection, Ad Astra is an entertaining film only for a few.
Director: James Gray
With: Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Donald Sutherland
Rating: 9/10
