An average movie

Even though this movie was rather poorly received, since I have a weak spot for George Clooney’s work, I was still eager to check it out. Well, unfortunately, even if it was easily Clooney’s most ambitious directing effort so far, the damned thing still turned out to be disappointing. At least, it was visually pretty neat but it was probably the only thing that really worked, I’m afraid. Basically, they tried to cobble two stories together, one about seemingly the last man on Earth and another one about a spaceship crew coming back to Earth, but this mix never really worked and the movie awkwardly switched back and forth between the two tales. To make things worse, none of these stories was particularly interesting, in fact, there were even seriously derivative. I have to admit that have a weak spot for both genres, the apocalyptic minimalistic drama and the space survival thriller, so the damned thing was still watchable but, in my opinion, George Clooney has clearly displayed here his limits as a director, especially if you would compare his work to what Ridley Scott, Alfonso Cuaron or Stanley Kubrick did. At least, Clooney did deliver a solid performance and I wonder how the movie would have turned out to be if they had focused only on him (I would have even dropped the imaginary companion who was obviously a figment of his imagination right from the start). Anyway, to conclude, in spite of its flaws, I have to admit it that it was still a decent watch but, at this point, following this new flop, you might wonder if Clooney shouldn’t drop his dream of being a director and focus only on his career as an actor.