The Midnight Sky

The Midnight Sky is a 2020 American science fiction film directed by George Clooney, based on the 2016 novel Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton. It stars Clooney as a scientist who must venture through the Arctic Circle to warn off a returning spaceship following a global catastrophe. Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, Tiffany Boone, Demián Bichir, Kyle Chandler, and Caoilinn Springall also star.

Summary
In a post-apocalyptic future, a scientist named Augustine tries to warn a returning spaceship not to return to Earth.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) First off, the film has absolutely no plot or direction.
 * 2) An abundance of filler scenes.
 * 3) Random inconveniences that come out of nowhere and are completely nonsensical.
 * 4) The film has a myriad of plot holes and leaves more questions than answers.
 * 5) The ending twist makes no sense: Turns out the little girl named Iris was not real and was just a hallucination, which leaves a lot of holes in, well, basically the entire plot.
 * 6) Very slow pacing.
 * 7) The film doesn't even seem to know what it wants to be, as it just drags on and constantly changes direction.
 * 8) The flashbacks are useless and provide little to no context on what anything in this film is even supposed to be.
 * 9) The characters really have almost no depth except for sort of just being there, without any real growth, or reason to grow in general.
 * 10) Scenes that are supposed to be emotional just fall flat.
 * 11) The film tries way too hard with its action scenes that they come off as cheesy rather than actually exciting.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Decent acting from George Clooney.
 * 2) Decent special effects.

Reception
The film received mixed reviews from critics, with a 51% score on Rotten Tomatoes out of 236 reviewers and a score of 58 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 42 reviewers.