Okay so yes I think Johnny Depp is a pretty good actor, though no one could have pulled off this role because the script stinks... My problem with Mr. Depp here is why in the world would he take this role? It must have looked pretty different to start with or he was blackmailed or something...
Several of the other reviewers here have said that the cinematography of the Astronauts Wife was its one saving grace, and the camera work was not bad, but I felt it did not suit the film itself and so it just irritated me.
The script, the script, the script... What a colossal waste of time.. There were SO SO many holes in the story - and it was all put together terribly... I can not even really get into the script due to the anger and annoyance I feel at wasting my time watching one of the worst films of the year.. It doesn't make any sense! Why is it a big deal that these two twins are going to fly this dumb plane? Because they are eeevvviiilll?? So what. What was the conspiracy? Why would NASA cover it up? Why did the first astronaut to die, die? And why when he died did that "alien" not burst out of him the way it did when Johnny Depp died? What was with the sister - especially when she was killed? That was so stupid. And what about the pulse thing? Why was Johnny always feeling her pulse? Sorry but he wasn't scary and she was just wishy washy. There was no backbone to the film at all - the filmakers just threw some creepy sounding ideas together and seemed to hope it would all come out okay in the end.
As for Charlize Theron, I thought she was pretty blah and I didn't like looking at her, though I didn't think she was awful, however the script could have just been hiding the fact that she can't act at all.
Garbage. Avoid at all costs.
Several of the other reviewers here have said that the cinematography of the Astronauts Wife was its one saving grace, and the camera work was not bad, but I felt it did not suit the film itself and so it just irritated me.
The script, the script, the script... What a colossal waste of time.. There were SO SO many holes in the story - and it was all put together terribly... I can not even really get into the script due to the anger and annoyance I feel at wasting my time watching one of the worst films of the year.. It doesn't make any sense! Why is it a big deal that these two twins are going to fly this dumb plane? Because they are eeevvviiilll?? So what. What was the conspiracy? Why would NASA cover it up? Why did the first astronaut to die, die? And why when he died did that "alien" not burst out of him the way it did when Johnny Depp died? What was with the sister - especially when she was killed? That was so stupid. And what about the pulse thing? Why was Johnny always feeling her pulse? Sorry but he wasn't scary and she was just wishy washy. There was no backbone to the film at all - the filmakers just threw some creepy sounding ideas together and seemed to hope it would all come out okay in the end.
As for Charlize Theron, I thought she was pretty blah and I didn't like looking at her, though I didn't think she was awful, however the script could have just been hiding the fact that she can't act at all.
Garbage. Avoid at all costs.