2024 · sci-fi · thriller · space
Slingshot
Directed by Mikael Håfström1h 49m2024
An elite trio of astronauts aboard a years-long, possibly compromised mission to Saturn's moon, Titan, gears up for a highly dangerous slingshot manoeuvre that will either catapult them to Titan or into deep space.
Our read: Slingshot (2024) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive sci-fi · thriller · space entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured sci-fi / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
- twisty
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