The Astronaut's Wife (1999)

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   cubesofspinach

   The end pissed me off. 12 years 11 months ago
2. 

   danisanna

   Good concept, badly excecuted ... the whole movie I was waiting for a "twist" or for something to make it more interesting but it never happened. Expected a lot more!

   the entire middle bit I was struggling to understand the movie ... is he really an alien? Or is her mental illness rearing its ugly head? And in the end, I was disappointed that there wasn't a big twist at the end.

   9 years 11 months ago
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   Siskoid

   If you can stand too-close-to-real-life Johnny Depp creep-acting (and I'm pretty sure I can't), The Astronaut's Wife is a thriller with potential. It certainly manages to maintain a disquieting atmosphere throughout through Charlize Theron's point of view. She plays the eponymous wife of an astronaut who came back from a mission somehow different, and soon becomes pregnant. The key moment is when a woman in her pregnancy support group says she feels separate from her husband because he can't possibly understand what she's going through, and that's more or less the feeling that manifests. Saddled with a vague back story of mental illness, we're led to wonder if Charlize is imagining some of this of it there really is a secret invasion from outer space (so The Devil's Advocate with aliens instead of demons), so it became a waiting game for the final twists to see if the picture actually worked. It almost does, but no, it doesn't. It so wants to be Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the 1979 truly scary one), it hurts. But its empathetic set-up does not earn its twist (and also much too obvious) ending. 4 years 6 months ago

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