Ad Astra

I feel like I don't want to be too harsh on this film but I have to be sadly.... Boring. Slow. Uninvested. Unoriginal. A very slow and predictable plot. Uninspiring turn from Tommy Lee Jones, who phones in his performance with all the class of a 1980s Motorola cell phone! I couldn't have cared less about whether this father/son relationship had any development. Why? Because Brad Pitt's character is also boring. He's a machine - we get that spelled out to us several times. Now... Brad Pitt acts well. The visuals are good - but in a world of Interstellar and Gravity, they're underwhelming. I liked the view of Moon travel. That's the only positive. For a 2 hour film though, it felt like 3. That's a bad sign for any film. I'll be avoiding this one when I see it advertised on TV. I'm settling on 5/10 because of Brad Pitt's performance and some of the visuals (particularly the Moon). But I could have gone as low as 3/10 or 4/10 based on my mood leaving the cinema!