We are only three months in 2025, but somehow it doesn't feel too early to choose the worst scientific-flick of the year. The Astronaut, which premiered at the SXSW festival on Friday, was a disappointing, confusing slogan. Kate Mara, Lawrence Fishburn and Gabriel Luna are all great actors, but they can't save a scenario that refuses to go anywhere or say something significant.

The film is for an astronaut named Sam Walker (Kate Mara), who returned all bruises from her first journey into space. NASA thinks something broke into her space shuttle as she descended to Earth, so they keep her in an isolated house in Virginia while they understand it. What follows is an attractive movie about House persecution, where the frightening things continue gradually escalating around Walker. If you hate jumping scares, hard happiness: that's all you have to offer this second act of this film.

Like all the worst protagonists in the narrative house House, Walker takes forever to find out the situation that the audience has understood in the first few minutes. Yes, there is an explanation in the film why she does not want to take the threat seriously or do 90% of the common sense things that the right person would make in this situation, but that does not make her inactivity less frustrating to see.

In segment Q&A thenGabriel Luna (played by Sam's separated husband), summed up Sam's image, "In any other kind of horror picture, you are like," This person is an idiot. Why are they doing this? "But she is captain Sam Walker and you can believe she will examine in full." I love you Gabriel, but I have no idea what he was talking about here. I had 100% thinking: "Why is doing this?" For 80% of the shelf life.

This film is the directorial debut of director/writer Esses Varley, and there are very little moments that give this. The first act has a very seemingly random, unmotivated needle drops, and the visual lamps thrown at it seems to be just there because the director thought they look cool. In the end there is also a string that lends a lot from the aesthetics of Kitchen Sequence "Park Jura"But with none of the entertaining hizles for hidden and demands that the sequence brought with them. There are pieces in the "Astronaut" that return to better science films such as "ET" and "Close Meetings", which only reminds us of how much this film is missing.

Where the "astronaut" mostly lowered the ball with that last act, where it reveals that the film was built to a large, silly, unconvincing turn. Worst of all, the film really doesn't deal with all the moral issues that come with the turnaround. The role of Fishburn's character in it feels semi-baked, as well as the response of all the other characters of the discovery. For all the painstaking building it received, the resolution on the great discovery comes incredibly fast.

I think a lot about the turnaround would work better if the visual effects were stronger, but they are not. So many films that the "astronaut" inspires her out more than thirty, forty years and Scientific things in those films look much better than it is here. I sympathize because the "astronaut" is not a big budget blockbuster, and at the Q&A session, the creatives were in advance to have no money with a big budget, but still scientific-Fi VFX just looked too silly. The final act wants to tighten your heart sides, but it is simply too uncertain to pull the feat.