SPACEMAN (2024) (mini film review by Mark R. Leeper and Evelyn C. Leeper)

[Philip De Parto]

The following review is reprinted with permission from

THE MT VOID
03/15/24 -- Vol. 42, No. 37, Whole Number 2319

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SPACEMAN (2024)

SPACEMAN is an atypical science fiction film,
where the basic plot has nothing science fictional about it.  
It takes place in a spaceship, and there's a giant alien
telepathic spider, and there are a lot of dream sequences, but
the central idea seems to be that if the main character loved
his wife so much, he shouldn't have taken a job that requires
him to be away from her for a year at a time.  To those of us
from military families that seems somewhat insulting.  My
father had five tours of duty of a year or more each, and we
didn't have the benefit of Zoom calls or Facetime.  (In the
film, the title character is somewhere out near Jupiter, but
through technobabble, he is able to talk to people on Earth
with no time lag.)  [-ecl]

Released on Netflix in the U.S. 1 March 2024.  Rating: +1 (-4 to
+4), or 6/10.

Film Credits:
<https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11097384/reference>

What others are saying:
<https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/spaceman_2024>