Voyagers Review 2021

voyagers takes place on a spacecraft driven by a crew of genius teenagers who won't live enough to get to their destination, an intellectual science fiction experience that can sometimes be too clear in a way that might harm it.

The film, written and directed by Neil Burger(Divergent, Limitless),has the potential to deliver a good message wrapped in a science fiction template, but it also has the problem of not drawing limits on when itshould stop and confident that its audience is able to solve some ethical equations themselves. Despite his interesting idea, and the wonderful performance of the young cast (as well as Colin Ferrell), the film is very direct in its subjects, which is why it doesn't try to take any risks.

Ty Sheridan (X-Menseries, Ready Player One)and Lily Rose Depp(Yoga Hosers)and The Kingsucceed in leading the brilliantly young cast who represent the last hope of humanity. The team'sunbridled character is Phon Whitehead as Zack, who embodies our basic and undisciplined desires, while Isaac Hempstead Wright(Game of Thrones)strangely disappears from the film from themiddle.

We've seen science fiction and other genres address the idea of re-starting societies. Voyagers are an extra layer to this ancient mystery by giving us a crew whose only mission is to help future generations. Their mission is literally to reproduce and die, in space, so that their grandchildren can land in a new world. Because of this, they were created in the lab and raised in a closed place without any relationships or connections. It's an interesting hypothesis because these humans basically don't have their own meaningful history.

The inevitable result of this, despite all the mission guidance and dr. Richard's guidance represented by Farrell, is that these obedient young people begin to collapse. After rejecting the "blue drink", which they discover contained a chemical that inhibits their emotions, they begin to scramble and run away. They simply enjoy taking what they want and running away from their jobs while quickly learning that fear is a powerful tool to use to control others.

Once chaos begins to dominate, the level of a film descends. Voyagers, unfortunately, a little bit. The characters actually start asking big questions out loud, hijacking any mystery from the film. In a strange choice in film style, footage of volcanoes exploding and/or animals chasing each other in the form of flashes is shown in front of viewers' eyes whenever a character is subjected to violent or physical desires. These images are not in the characters' heads, they are dedicated to us.

Chris (Sheridan) and Zach (Whitehead) have been positioned as opposite faces representing good/evil, while Depp's role is limited to being just a target among the young people's emotions. It's a love triangle where no one wants to be a part of it. We repeat that the cast is very good, and the way they all have to go from a state of automated thinking to unruly people is an interesting one, but the scenario puts everything in a very predictable way.

Across a certain level, you can estimate a movie Voyagers tells a fairy tale, in which knowing how the story works is part of the journey, but otherwise the film is stuck between a very direct narrative and a predictable story, and an attempt to deliver a good message.

While sci-fi films are packed with symbolic metaphors, Voyagers needed more stability. Despite the importance and nobility of the message he's trying to convey, it's so clear that it might get you out of the movie. The film has a talented cast, and its hypothesis is promising, but the story unfolds in a very predictable way, which works to some extent, but weakens the desired effect.