There's enough good in the first couple of acts to warrant a slightly higher score from me, but the final act really does bring it down significantly.

I agree though I feel like you are being generous.
1/10 from me.
I didn't go below zero because it is nicely filmed and acted.
Though maybe I should because I could not stand the shaky and blurred cam for the mad captain.

It's a bummer when a movie that starts out with such excellent promise, turns into something that disappoints.
Seems to be director Danny Boyle's shtick.

Thanks for the heads up. I had not heard good things about it.
MAGA! FAFO! Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. Dumbocraps: evil people who celebrate murder.

No,that wont improve filmboards …how about "filmboards,shove it where the sun don't shine"
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My God, we live that every day here!

Yes.
if all we gots is us, we better be good to each other.
Think we should make that filmboard's motto?

I think a lot of people were, like Dad, disappointed in the final results of Dad's mission and search. But that was part of the film's message: if all we gots is us, we better be good to each other.

I liked it. It was a morality tale too, I guess, but I still felt let down by the movie after his father turned up. I guess I really WAS expecting more science and less dysfunctional family.

I agree it may not have been superclear, but it was in the brief Brad got with the military types in the first third of the film. They suspected that it was Dad's malfunctioning reactor causing the surges.
All of that made the dad more of a jerk, and Brad more of a hero, in the context of the end of the movie.
What a polarizing film! I thought it was decent, though the Mars section really dragged. Some people really disliked it.

Yes, I understood that, but the cause of the disasters on Earth and elsewhere?
It was poorly explained imo. He warbled on to Brad about the anti-matter machine being started because of the crew mutinying, and the ensuing fight causing 'something' to occur. The 'something' was never explained, it just 'was'.
He was still looking for extraterrestrial life and the others had given up on it, so he killed them all and went on his lunatic search for something that wasn't there.
Then he wanted his son to join him in his madness.

It was explained.
It was Tommy Lee Dickhead's malfunctioning ship, and he was such a colossal jerk that he didn't let Earth know he was still operating but needed help, because they would have shut him down.

I agree about Ad Astra. Somewhat disappointing. But I still liked it more than Sunshine.

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I already knew the father/son relationship was the main theme, but I was so let down when the scientific reason for all the cosmic surges was never properly explained.
I thought that the father's explanation and reasoning for the Universe threatening pulses was lame and unbelievable.
The rest of the movie was fine. Brad was brilliant.

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I have not seen ass asstra yet.
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It's a bummer when a movie that starts out with such excellent promise, turns into something that disappoints. I felt the same about Ad Astra.

MAGA! FAFO! Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. Dumbocraps: evil people who celebrate murder.

Putting it lightly.

7/10. I enjoyed it, but I agree that the ending was nutso.
MAGA! FAFO! Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. Dumbocraps: evil people who celebrate murder.

I certainly do!

Absolutely.
Sounds like you need a new source for movie recommendations.

I didn't enjoy it either but it was recommended to me by someone who loved it. Mind you the same person have me Ex Machina and I disliked that too!
Different strokes eh?