2021 · sci-fi · thriller · space
Voyagers
Directed by Neil Burger1h 48m2021
With the future of the human race at stake, a group of young men and women -- bred for intelligence and obedience -- embark on an expedition to colonize a distant planet. When they uncover disturbing secrets about the mission, they defy their training and begin to explore their most primitive natures. As life on the ship descends into chaos, they soon become consumed by fear, lust and an insatiable hunger for power.
Our read: Voyagers (2021) 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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