Ad Astra - Movie Review
To the stars. Ad Astra is a complex character study woven into a solar-system-spanning adventure narrative. This sprawling epic manages to be at once both inward and outward looking, examining humanity's obsession with seeking more from the universe whilst also exploring the inner workings of human psychology. Astronaut Major Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) is sent on a mission to locate his long-lost fa mous fat her Clifford McBride (Tommy Lee Jones), who was assigned to the mysterious Lima Project tasked with finding extraterrestrial life on the edge of the universe decades prior. This mission takes Roy on an emotional journey as he battles with his inner sense of isolation, depression, building insanity and conflicting feelings towards his father, whom he feels abandoned him as a child. Ad Astra 's strengths lie in its blend of quieter moments, in which Roy reflects on his situation and his feelings via sombre first person narration, and faster scenes which build ten...