Lucy in the Sky

I have to agree with most of the reviewers on here, this movie didn't deliver at all. I had high expectations, was hoping for a decent sci-fi movie but instead I got a quite boring drama. I wouldn't say the actors were bad, far from that, Natalie Portman and the rest did their job, but the story was just weak, certainly for the first half of the movie. The movie was also much too long, certainly for the story they wanted to tell. I wouldn't waste too much time on this one if I were you.

Everything was barely acceptable up until the hardware store scene, where she buys a hammer, a knife, ropes AND A WIG all items together in the same shelf of a hardware store!!! A woman's wig??? Come on, man!

These things get me out of the movie.

First of all, the only sci-fi part of the film is that the Space Shuttle program never ended. Second, as many other reviewers noticed, the movie starts really well, then it fizzles... it just fizzles. One can actually hear the feeble flatulent sound of the ideas in the movie going absolutely nowhere. The difference between the beginning and the ending is so vast that your mind is blown away and you go crazy, not unlike being in space for the first time.

It's a frightening window into what men see strong women as being: rigid, driven, single minded, egocentric, scary and ultimately going nuts whenever they need to chill and get the task done. It's Natalie Portman going crazy again on a difficult job, despite all the Southern cliches about no nonsense old nanas, toughing it out and working twice as hard as men to get to the same point and the mixed and meaningless metaphors uttered on a piano sound background. And why does she go crazy? Because of a man. Well, amongst other things that also happen because of men, like her marriage to a perfectly nice husband that does not look like Jon Hamm.

Bottom line: if you want a movie so deep that you will scour IMDb comments to understand what the hell happened, yet so superficial as to be 95% cliches, this is the thing for you. And no, Dan Stevens does NOT go crazy too and break the Universe. That's something else.

The real story behind this film is so much more interesting, along with the actual people involved. This easily could have been an engaging study of the real woman, instead of the vague cypher that camera tricks do nothing to explain or enhance.

Can't say much about this, Portman's accent is almost as bad a s the wig she wears in it, (apologies if its not a wig,)

disappointed was hoping for more.

We look for anything over 5/10 to at least make it pass some of the many hours pass during our extended time at home, this is where we draw the line of Passable, anything below this we would not recommend as it would be better to paint a wall then watch it dry.