Approaching the Unknown (2016)

First, this is menial budget movie . . . All the bad reviewers were more used to high budget fancy space genre movies. Ignore such reviews.Second, the plot of the movie runs on the lines of meta-physical monologue of the protagonist., which is quintessentially the very fundamental element of this genre. In most high-budget movies, to cater the broader audience, this element is generally faded out romance elements, human conflicts, moral paradoxes. Not in this. This strictly confined to meta-physical aspects of existentialism one faces when they are alone and divorced off the world. I could have given 10, but I am disappointed by the ending. Wish, there is more philosophical monologue in the end. That's the only disappointment of this film. In the beginning, the plot seems way too cliche. Please understand, its just setting stage for the character. If you could push through the part and involve meditative with the character, trust me, its a beautiful movie. Give it a try with your heart . . . It won't disappoint.

I like the actor in this movie and have seen him in other things, but I'm afraid I must say that this is one of the most boring movies I have ever seen in my entire life. I can't even tell what the point of this movie is. I can tell that the filmmaker obviously thinks he has something very deep and important to say but it never comes across, so we end up with a two hour long bore fest of a movie that basically can be entirely summed up by "a guy goes to Mars, his water purifier gets broken on the way but he continues anyway, then he lands on Mars". Throw in tons of silent shots of him sitting by the window, reading, trying to sleep, bantering with one of the Wilson brothers pointlessly about nothing, working with tools, watering plants, and writing in his diary, and you've got a super long and boring film.I think the main problem is probably the guy who wrote and directed this, it is the first and only thing he has ever made so probably he had no idea what he was doing or how to make it interesting. If you are going to try to be a copycat of The Martian at least try to be at least 1% as interesting. The only reason this snooze fest gets a 2 instead of a 1 from me is like I said I like this actor and it's not his fault he had nothing and nobody to work with.

You probably have already seen in other sci-fi movies with great plots which astronauts are headed to Mars, however that's not what's going to happen here. Probably director's intention was to let us know how boring a journey like this might be and no doubt its goal has been achieved.

The main character correctly asserted that there is more space between our atoms than mass... coincidentally there was more space in this movie than plot. The interest in Sci-fi lately has been boosted by realistic and scientifically based premises, even if somewhat stretched. This movie lacks any credibility.