The Astronaut (2025)
Last Watch Date - June 27, 2026
Total Times Watched - Once
Comments
After sitting at an airport for about 7 hours, waiting first for my plane and then for the thunderstorms to stop so we could take off, I was able to put this movie on in my JetBlue flight. SPONSORED STORY! No one sponsors me, but JetBlue is always good.
I had never even heard of this movie, so saying "I had no expectations" would be even saying too much. You can't have expectations for something you know nothing about! I saw that it had Kate Mara and Laurence Fishburne and was like, hmm, sure why not.
This movie is a very small, confined movie. Physically! It takes place almost entirely in a house and its surrounding yard. There aren't many actors in this, though there are quite a few extras here and there. Outside of those two, you get to see Dasha Fedorovich, Gabriel Luna, some little girl, and a cameo by Macy Gray. You're going to say "that little girl is the worst actor" and you'd be wrong. It's Macy Gray. I didn't know it was her until I looked up the cast, but while watching it I was like "who even is this and how did they get this part?" Now I know.
The acting overall is pretty solid given the content, but it seems to have a lot of faux drama. For some reason, the family dynamic issues never felt like an actual story point, more of a piece they threw in to have the husband and adopted daughter be involved. They could've left that piece out altogether and it wouldn't have mattered at all.
I saw this movie has mixed reception and I can see why. It's mostly a scifi thriller, but then it tries to become a family drama (this never works), before ultimatley ending in a "twist" that was slightly surprising, but I expected something similar to what happened.
What I didn't expect was the horrific CGI they used in this movie. What in the 1989 is going on here? I don't know what the budget was for this, but I'm going to say they only had like $30 leftover for the visuals. Sometimes it's fine to have "less than" looking things in your movie, but in this case it really took me out of it. I think what they did with Fishburne's character (his motivations) at the end was really pretty awful writing and knocked this down another notch.
Recommended?
No. It isn't a bad movie but it's not memorable and has way too many flaws to recommend.
