The Astronaut's Wife (1999)

A Shallow But Honest Review

O.K. the movie wasn't that great. It was alright but just average. However, plot aside, I would watch this movie again and again for one thing: the sheer beauty of Charlize Theron. Wow, can she look any better in a film? The phrase "doll face" was invented for women like Charlize. Just looking at that lovely face "made" the movie for me, plot be damned. I would and will watch this film again just to see her face. Shallow, maybe but honest and heart felt! July 30, 2008

"The Astronaut's Wife"

That this film is a psychological thriller, I whole-heartedly agree. I think my problem with another reviewer is that what-else-should it be? I liked, "2001." I liked Tarkovsky's, "Solaris." And, I liked Soderbergh's and Clooney's, "Solaris," remake. I liked Andrew Niccol's, "Gattaca."

The thing with TAW is that, perhaps, because it leaves out outer-space footage and extra-terrestrial monsters, that don't look like Johnny Depp, we can't view it as some sort of action adventure yarn, but must view it with a sense of the unknown rather than a pretended known. I think, also, that this film's portrayal of the largely unknown as a thoroughly uninterested and uninteresting Johnny Depp character was its primary flaw. Depp could have been playing an uninterested and uninteresting CEO of a major corporation or a marine private, only willing to divulge his name, rank and serial number (when and if captured) for all I could tell. Perhaps, if our astronauts were in their sixties or seventies, Paul Newman could have done better. But, because Johnny has proven himself adept at pleasing audiences with wildl-l-l-ly eccentric behavior and quirks of interests in pursuits not known to have been dictated by any senior officer or presumed military code of conduct, it seems unlikely that Johnny acted outside his director's direction to play the extra-terrestrial as somberly and as uncreatively as a fence post, rather than as a tree.

Still, it is an interesting film. And, I suppose, it is vaguely possible that extra-terrestrial adventurers are primarily interested in how stocks are trading on their home-world. Or, maybe, the adventurers are simply Pentium 643s instead of Pentium 4s. Kind of makes me wonder how many versions of Windows they would have needed to think up. June 9, 2008

not a bad film...i liked it

i just watched this film last night and i gotta tell ya....it's not bad.it kept my attention all through out. wasn't bored at all.

will i watch it again ? yep. :D April 17, 2008

REVERSAL OF THRUST

Could have been much better with Charlize as the Astro. Lovely sets,lovely costumes ......eye candy and all of that.

Could really have been more fun if we already had 'some' of these jellyfish' aliens living amongst us ......

Overdone and recycled..... April 6, 2008

The Only Depp Movie I Didn't Like

I'm a huge fan of Johnny Depp, but this movie was absolutely horrid. I honestly can't understand how anyone could give this movie a good rating. It was achingly slow and dreadful to the point where I nearly couldn't watch the entire movie. The plot seemed promising and the actors very enticing, but this movie failed to deliver in every way imaginable. I am so thankful that I didn't actually purchase this film (it was a gift).

If you must watch it - borrow it or rent it, but save your money and don't buy it. January 22, 2008

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