Ad Astra, while disappointing in many respects, still has a reasonable amount of redeeming qualities.
These mainly come in film's direction. Gorgeous visual effects and set design as well as variuos other aesthetic choices provides much needed stylistic quality to the product, thus elevating it from the obscurities of "passable" si-fi.
Yet this is not enough to overshadow all of its grave flaws, that are rooted in script. The most glaring one is extremely problematic pacing. The story movement is…
