“Approaching the Unknown” Won’t Have the Search Team Called [MOVIE REVIEW]
Mark Strong in “Approaching the Unknown.” Courtesy of Vertical Entertainment by Ryan Rojas/Cinemacy.com Apparently, movies have yet to learn by now the dangers of sending but a few scarce humans–in this case, just one–beyond Earth’s reaches and into the vastness of space to save humanity from some planet-threatening problem. Of course, this risk of the ‘what can go wrong does go wrong’ variety, drives a time-tested plot of which audiences are readily entertained; just look at recent cinema, “The Martian,” “Interstellar,” and “Gravity” for proof. The real danger that movies should be wary of is building a story around this premise alone, and without adding anything new to the equation. The result, which the latest solo-in-space-survival flick “Approaching the Unknown” shows, is that audiences will fail to care if that character is fated to drift further and aimlessly out of orbit and into the forgotten beyond. While there might be enough familiar elements to satisfy those who are looking for something akin to background-watching, “Approaching the Unknown” doesn’t have enough original elements to generate the inertia of interest necessary to captivate viewers in its own right. The…
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