While the idea of moving lớn Mars might not sound so terrible right about now, “The Space Between Us” is about a young man who’s spent all of his 16 years on the red planet & can’t wait lớn visit Earth—specifically, lớn meet the đáng yêu high school girl with whom he’s sparked an online flirtation. Trouble is, he may not physically be able to lớn withstand the journey—or last long once he gets here.
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It’s kind of an intriguing premise, even if it plays a bit like a “Muppet Babies” version of “Starman,” with an appealing lead performance from wide-eyed Brit Asa Butterfield. But the sci-fi/mystery element of the film works far better than the romance between Butterfield & an annoyingly feisty Britt Robertson as his interplanetary pen pal, và the whole thing ultimately collapses in a heap of unintentionally hilarious melodrama.
Veterans like Gary Oldman & Carla Gugino bring flashes of dignity và sometimes even emotional truth to this frequently silly enterprise. But—like Will Smith, Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren and Naomie Harris surely found while making “Collateral Beauty”—there’s only so much you can vày with a soggy Allan Loeb script. The twists are just unbearably ridiculous, which drains all the power nguồn out of their supposed catharsis.
Then again, awkward tonal shifts abound in the film from director Peter Chelsom, known for such early-2000s misfires including “Town và Country,” “Serendipity” and the English-language remake of “Shall We Dance?” Chelsom, who also provides the voice of the boy’s wisecracking robot pal early on, can’t quite make the transition from a character receiving terrible news to a joyous hot air balloon festival, for example. And a scene in which Robertson’s fiercely independent foster-child character starts playing the piano và singing a ballad in the middle of a Sam’s Club shopping spree is more likely khổng lồ prompt giggles than the poignancy for which it clearly aims.
There’s reason for hope at the outset, though, simply through the involvement of Oldman. He plays a Richard Branson-type billionaire explorer named Nathaniel Shepherd who’s funding a mission to lớn set up a colony on Mars called East Texas. (There’s the glimmer of a notion that climate change is a motivating factor, but any sort of political underpinning quickly gets swept aside.) But it turns out that the lead astronaut (Janet Montgomery) was pregnant when she boarded the rocket; several months later, she dies during childbirth. (Not a spoiler, folks—it happens early in the movie.) The ethical questions at stake are intriguing: whether Nathaniel và his team should report to lớn the world that a boy has been born on Mars, or keep it a secret to lớn avoid jeopardizing the mission. But that’s about the extent of the intellectual ambitions at play here.
16 years later, the colony is thriving and the baby has grown into an inquisitive, slightly awkward young man named Gardner Elliot. Gugino plays the intelligent, supportive astronaut who was sent to East Texas lớn function as a mother figure lớn him. But Gardner’s daily chats with Robertson’s character—a similarly frustrated, isolated teen who goes by the nickname Tulsa—make him increasingly curious about Earth. He also hopes to learn the identity of his father, whom he’s seen in photos và snippets of home movies.
Despite the physical toll it likely will take on him, Gardner makes the trek lớn Earth, where he promptly escapes his government handlers và seeks out Tulsa (who lives in Colorado). Fish-out-of-water antics involving exotic phenomena lượt thích rain aim for easy, obvious laughs, but they’re vaguely amusing because of Butterfield’s pleasingly guileless persona. The two go on a road trip across the American West, stealing various cars và stopping in Las Vegas on the way to lớn California, trying khổng lồ outrun the authorities and his mounting health problems along the way.
Which brings us khổng lồ the multitude of distracting, inconsistent details. It’s supposed khổng lồ be 16 years in the future, right? Some elements (like laptops) have a high-tech look about them, while others (like dry erase boards in a classroom and old pickup trucks và cars) are clearly from the present day or even a few decades ago. They make a big giảm giá khuyến mãi out of the fact that the beach house that’s their ultimate destination is in the tiny beach town of Summerland, Calif.—a few miles down the coast from Santa Barbara—but then the authorities that arrive are from Los Angeles. Stuff lượt thích this sticks out when you’re not engaged emotionally in what is supposed khổng lồ be the film’s dramatic climax.
Butterfield & Robertson (who’s about 10 years too old to be playing a high-school student at this point) don’t exactly get sparkling dialogue with which lớn convince us of their burgeoning love. Neither does the score, which works overtime to make us feel all the feels.
But hey, at least there’s an exploding barn. That’s something you don’t see on Mars every day.
The Space Between Us strands its star-crossed young lovers in a mind-numbingly vast expanse of shameless cheese that will send all but the most forgiving viewers eye-rolling for the exits. Read critic nhận xét
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Gardner Elliot, the first human born on Mars, begins an online friendship with Tulsa, a teen in Colorado. On his maiden voyage khổng lồ Earth, the 16-year-old finally gets khổng lồ experience all the joys and wonders of a world he could only read about. Problems arise when scientists discover that Gardner"s organs can"t withstand the atmosphere. United with Tulsa và on the run, the interplanetary visitor races against time to lớn unravel the mysteries of how he came khổng lồ be, and where he belongs in the universe.
Show MoreRating: PG-13 (Language|Brief Sensuality)
Genre: Adventure, Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 3, 2017 wide
Release Date (Streaming): May 16, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $7.8M
Runtime: 2h 0m
Distributor: STX Entertainment
Production Co: Southpaw Entertainment, Los Angeles media Fund, Huayi Brothers
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)
Cast và Crew
Gary Oldman
Nathaniel Shepherd
Asa Butterfield
Gardner Elliot
Carla Gugino
Kendra Wyndham
Britt Robertson
Tulsa
BD Wong
Tom Chen
Janet Montgomery
Sarah Elliot
Scott Takeda
Dr. Gary Loh
Trey Tucker
Harrison Lane
Peter Chelsom
Director
Allan Loeb
Screenwriter
Jeffrey Soros
Executive Producer
Simon Horsman
Executive Producer
Allan Loeb
Executive Producer
Steven Pearl
Executive Producer
Kevin Halloran
Executive Producer
Robbie Brenner
Executive Producer
Ryan Kavanaugh
Executive Producer
Tucker Tooley
Executive Producer
Douglas Urbanski
Executive Producer
Sasha Harari
Executive Producer
Zhongjun Wang
Executive Producer
Zhonglei Wang
Executive Producer
Jerry Ye
Executive Producer
Donald Tang
Executive Producer
Robert Simonds
Executive Producer
Adam Fogelson
Executive Producer
Oren Aviv
Executive Producer
Cathy Schulman
Executive Producer
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