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• xGary X

  
  An astronaut returns to Earth after an accident during a space walk, but his wife soon begins to suspect that he is not the man who she married. Rosemary's Baby gets the sci-fi treatment in this hokey supernatural thriller from the Twilight Zone school. The obvious draw for this… More
  An astronaut returns to Earth after an accident during a space walk, but his wife soon begins to suspect that he is not the man who she married. Rosemary's Baby gets the sci-fi treatment in this hokey supernatural thriller from the Twilight Zone school. The obvious draw for this film is the cast and Charlize Theron's hand-wringing turn as a paranoid spouse in the midst of spooky goings on makes it all very reminiscent of The Devil's Advocate. Unfortunately Johnny Depp's appeal has always revolved around his quirky charm and his serious miscasting here makes all sense of menace disappear; in fact I think that most women would think the idea of Jack Sparrow as their personal stalker would be quite appealing! But by far the biggest weakness of the film is the silly script that gets ever more ridiculous as it goes. The above par cast manage to keep The Astronaut's Wife palatable, but quite why they got involved with this sub X-Files nonsense in the first place is the biggest mystery of all.

• Cameron S

  
  Dull and pointless, Johnny Depp plays a far to run of the mill boring character for his acting style and the sub-par scares won't raise anything apart from your anguish at how much longer of the film is left. Give this one a miss.

• Mark W

  
  Johnny Depp is one of those actors who has consistantly made brave choices throughout his career. There are few actors like him and although some of his choices work better than others, this is one that I'm sure he'd rather forget. Jillian (Charlize Theron) lovingly… More
  Johnny Depp is one of those actors who has consistantly made brave choices throughout his career. There are few actors like him and although some of his choices work better than others, this is one that I'm sure he'd rather forget. Jillian (Charlize Theron) lovingly greets her space-rocketeer husband Spencer (Johnny Depp) home from a mission, but after a mishap she soon begins to suspect that Spencer is not the same man and fears she may have been impregnated by an alien. Although this a career move Depp would rather forget, he can't be entirely blamed for the end product. He's not in it enough to make any major impact and whenever he is, he's reduced to a few sinister, brooding facial expressions. Theron's character is the main focus here and despite her attempts at depth, she can't save the film from being mind-numbingly boring and uneventful. She also sports a short blonde hairdo to further fuel the comparisons with "Rosemary's Baby" during her pregnant paranoia. This is one of those straight to DVD films that remind you why not all films deserve a mainstream release. It's pretty dire to say the least and you're more likely to find more suspense while waiting on a bus. Quite possibly one of, if not the, worst of Johnny Depp's films. Despite the lead actors involved, steer well clear of this stinker. Do yourself a favour and watch Roman Polanski's earlier horror masterpiece instead. He'll show you how it's done.

• Wahida K

  
  OUTSTANDING!

• Conner R

  
  A terrible movie. Everything about this came off as pathetic and just odd. Johnny Depp and Charlize Theron were completely wrong for the parts they played and just made it even more obvious that the movie was unimportant and unoriginal.

• Anthony L

  
  It had is intense moments but at the end of the day it was a wasted idea!

• Jason O

  
  I wasn't really wanting to see "The Astronaut's Wife," but my mom told me that it was good and that I should watch it. There wasn't anything else on, so I watched it. It turned out to be real disappointment in my opinion. Jillian (Charlize Theron) is the wife… More
  I wasn't really wanting to see "The Astronaut's Wife," but my mom told me that it was good and that I should watch it. There wasn't anything else on, so I watched it. It turned out to be real disappointment in my opinion. Jillian (Charlize Theron) is the wife of an astronaut, Spencer (Johnny Depp). He almost gets killed after being trapped in space for two minutes. Jillian begins to worry when Spencer comes back and starts acting real strange. "The Astronaut's Wife" took an original idea and never really made the best of it. For the first hour of the movie, I thought it was boring, but it kept me interested enough to want to see what was going to happen. The last 30 minutes of the movie was the only part of the movie that was pretty good. "The Astronaut's Wife" had good acting, but the script and plot just weren't what they could've been. I don't really recommend getting the movie if you ask me, but some people really like it, so you might. NOTE: That was my Amazon review from the year 2000.

• Candy R

  
  Creepy thriller about the aftermath of an astronaut's return from outer space.

• Dean M

  
  Average sci-fi thriller spin on <i>Rosemary's Baby</i>.

• Jason S

  
  Poor.

• Drew S

  
  Decent sci-fi thriller with, once again, a really awful ending that invalidates everything that happened in the movie before it. Johnny Depp and Charlize Theron are ultimately squandered, the plot seems unusually bare bones (with a lot of the time being filled by Charlize Theron… More
  Decent sci-fi thriller with, once again, a really awful ending that invalidates everything that happened in the movie before it. Johnny Depp and Charlize Theron are ultimately squandered, the plot seems unusually bare bones (with a lot of the time being filled by Charlize Theron yelling and people dying off camera) and the movie is just not as scary as it wants to be. There are a few tense sections, but eh. Still torn as to whether it was worth the time.

• Leigh R

  
  Creepingly good.

• Walter M

  
  [font=Century Gothic][color=blue]"The Astronaut's Wife" starts out with Jillian Armacost(Charlize Theron) at home when she finds out that something has gone WRONG on her husband Spencer's(Johnny Depp) space shuttle mission. What did go wrong, was that Spencer and… More
  [font=Century Gothic][color=blue]"The Astronaut's Wife" starts out with Jillian Armacost(Charlize Theron) at home when she finds out that something has gone WRONG on her husband Spencer's(Johnny Depp) space shuttle mission. What did go wrong, was that Spencer and his captain were out of contact for two minutes. Spencer expresses an interest in stop flying and taking a job as an executive in New York. Jillian is shocked to hear this, saying that she remembered him saying that he wanted to be buried in space.(Her husband just had a near death experience in orbit. Why is she surprised that he might want to hang up his wings? I mean, I think the last thing she would want would be for her husband to die young. How large is his life insurance policy?) The shuttle captain dies of a massive stroke soon afterwards. She remarks on how much her husband has changed but we saw very little of him before the shuttle accident. All of this makes Jillian think there is something very curious going on but on the other hand, she might just be having a breakdown. (It is revealed that the character has had mental problems before.)[/color][/font] [font=Century Gothic][color=blue][/color][/font] [font=Century Gothic][color=blue]I liked that "The Astronaut's Wife" starts out with us seeing things from the wife's point of view, thus showing more of her life than his. But once the film moves towards cataloguing her suspicions, the movie runs out of steam. There is very little evidence to support her suspicions. It's also not too original, in that it resembles "The Devil's Advocate"(also starring Theron) and "Rosemary's Baby" .(It goes beyond Charlize Theron having the same haircut as Mia Farrow did in the latter film.) It does somewhat redeem itself by bringing up issues concerning women and by its excellent cast, namely Charlize Theron, who is very good and Blair Brown, who [/color][/font][font=Century Gothic][color=blue]nearly makes off with the film. [/color][/font]

• Cameron J

  
  Man, the twist in this is so unbelievably predictable that I'm just gonna go ahead and spoil it: He's neither human nor alien; he's a robot. Oh, wait, that's "The Time Traveler's Wife". Yes, I'm aware that it's not actually about a robot,… More
  Man, the twist in this is so unbelievably predictable that I'm just gonna go ahead and spoil it: He's neither human nor alien; he's a robot. Oh, wait, that's "The Time Traveler's Wife". Yes, I'm aware that it's not actually about a robot, but you can understand how I would get confused, seeing as Eric Bana's only excuse for being as stiff and passionless as he is might just be the fact that he is a machine, devoid of the concept of acting, and yes, I am saying that based only on the trailer, since I have not seen the movie yet, but I'd imagine that it's terrible, what with it having that waste of space. Well, actually, although Bana makes Keanu Reeves look like Sam Rockwell (man, I am just killing him tonight), I'll be the first to admit that he actually has a pretty good track record when it comes to picking films, but I hate him so much that I'll assume any film with him is a bomb. Seriously, if I were to watch "Troy" for the third glorious time, but watch the trailer right before, the instant Bana flashes onscreen, I would sigh about having to watch it, which is absolutely absurd, because it's such a great film, as everyone know. Ha-ha-ha, but seriously though, that film is underrated; and with that I've broken my credibility by panning Eric Bana's act...-actaa...-actoo...-acti...-whatever it he does and praising "Troy". Well, I don't know if that's what ruined my credibility, or the hints that I might be a time traveler, because I'm opening a review about a film from 1999 by talking about films that came out years later, but just bear with me, because I know none of y'all are crazy about this film and believe me, I've got my share of complaints, as well. Okay, now, the film isn't terrible, but it's such a mess in terms of storytelling, being sewn together in such a spotty fashion, with often ineffective tension raging constantly and relentlessly that the resonance in the story slowly, but surely, fades off and after a while, the film not only fails to touch a nerve, but loses steam and becomes rather unengaging. To make matters worse, the film is so cliched and in a very Hollywood fashion, particularly during the more romantically dramatic parts, where it's cheesy, predictable and melodramatic. Still, as I said earlier, this film boasts a relentless tone of darkness, but what makes it rather hard to take seriously is the writing, with almost every character being their own type of cliche, all the way down to their usually uninventive conclusions. Now, I know that by the way I'm emphasizing the flaws, I sound as though I'm contradicting my earlier claim that this film is not terrible. Well, that's just me flying a bit off the handle, because the flaws I'm describing aren't the keys to a poor film, but the keys to a manipulative, mediocre film. The film could have very easily been poor, perhaps around a "Heavenly Creatures" level (Ouch, my credibility!), as it shares that film's flaws of being consistently one-note and devoid of resonance, but it just doesn't have the nerve to take that extra leap and risk making all of the mistakes made by a potentially passable film like "Creatures" that caused it to plummet, and plummet, and plummet, until it ultimately became flat-out unbearable, leaving this film to just float along, lacking anything special. However, that's just simply not the case, for although what we're looking at is a fair story, bumped down to mediocre by weak direction, the style and talent behind this film have the power to boost it back up to fairness, which isn't the most impressive leap, but still big enough of one to raise this film above mediocrity. From a technical standpoint, the film is undeniably impressive, from something as subtle as mesmerizing sound design tricks, to something as unmissable as lively, elaborate cinematography. There are quite a deal of shots in this film that are so well-stage and absorbingly - pardon my drop in vocabulary - bouncy, but when it's not that emphatic, it still has a lighting to it that is subtley, yet noticeably bright and captivating. It's all complemented by the visual effects, which may be ridiculously underused, but are still lively and impressive to watch. Of course, the consensues hit the nail right on the head that style and visuals can't save this film from mediocrity. No, what really raises and carries this film past mediocrity is the charming, compelling chemistry between our leads, made so strong by their own individual and very impressive performances. I don't care if the film is garbage; I will always love those golden moments where Johnny Depp completely transforms into an entirely different person, and sure, his slick, but strong southern character is one past down from generation to generation of cliched films, but very few who inherit the role make as immersive of a transformation as Depp, and whether you love his performance because its so charmy, yet mysterious, or because you're a fan of Barry Pepper, who he seems to be transforming into the most, you're compelled every time he occupies the screen. However, when Johnny Depp is away, Charlize Theron comes out to play, and plays the leading game with heart and raw emotion in her presence, and when she and Depp work off of each other, especially as the story begins to unravel, you find yourself tense, questioning and waiting to see if something really is going down, or if it's all something else, and when we do get to the big reveal, it is effective, partially because Depp and Theron really know how to cap-off their compelling lead performances with impact that fully carries what emotional resonance there is, especially as this thing comes down to its fine conclusion. At the end of the day, unimpressive writing - complete with cliches - and weak direction - complete with steam loss, caused by relentless and often ineffective tension - threaten to force this film down to the level of mediocrity, but what inspires this film to push back is its fine technical and visual style, and what finally inspires this film to break through mediocrity are the powerfully compelling, film-carrying lead performances by Charlize Theron and Johnny Depp, who ultimately leave "The Astronaut's Wife" to stand as a generally enjoyable and rather impressive film. 2.5/5 - Fair

• Daniel P

  
  Pretty lousy knockoff of Rosemary's Baby; it's too blandly directed and workmanlike to be the gripping thriller-cum-horror it clearly wants to be, and takes itself far too seriously. Johnny Depp is interesting to watch, playing something of a villain, and the excellent Clea… More
  Pretty lousy knockoff of Rosemary's Baby; it's too blandly directed and workmanlike to be the gripping thriller-cum-horror it clearly wants to be, and takes itself far too seriously. Johnny Depp is interesting to watch, playing something of a villain, and the excellent Clea DuVall puts in a neat performance, but otherwise it's all a bit blah...

• Maymay A

  
  I originally gave this three and a half stars because it has Johnny Depp. But I don't think it's worth it. Somehow scary.

• Erin C

  
  I remember seeing this quite a few years ago, but I don't remember much else about it. I didn't like it, even though JD stars (my favorite actor), so that's saying a lot.

• Adam M

  
  I've actually wanted to see this for a while so was disappointed when it turned out to be a bit crap. Johnny Depp comes back from space but is acting weird and his lovely wife, Charlize Theron, doesn't know whats happening but figures her husband might not be who he says he… More
  I've actually wanted to see this for a while so was disappointed when it turned out to be a bit crap. Johnny Depp comes back from space but is acting weird and his lovely wife, Charlize Theron, doesn't know whats happening but figures her husband might not be who he says he is. Despite a good performance from Theron, this doesn't really do much and is a bit boring. The storys pretty good but overall i felt it should have been much better.

• Sunil J

  
  It has moments where you see what the movie could have been but it gets sloppy.

• Alice S

  
  Interesting progress of the characters, annoyingly well played.

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