Review of Nightflyers

Nightflyers (2018)
6/10
Mix of cliches, illogical characters and weird narrative. Interesting only for SciFi fans (light spoilers)
8 February 2019
It's clearly not "Game of Thrones in space". Just three ideas:

1. Mix of cliches where you can find direct inspiration in Event Horizon, Matrix & Tron, Alien & Prometheus and many more; with virtual worlds, alien creatures, psychic and augmented humans, time travel (sort of), first encounters, people going mad (for no reason), crime and investigation, etc. All together where none of the themes really advance of concludes.

2. Characters behaving illogical and making too many stupid decisions. All of them. Every single character is too stupid at some point, of simple change drastically without reason.

3. Weird narrative where each episode is more or less a different plot that starts and concludes within the episode duration. But these small stories are so big, weird and mysterious that could have made it to a full movie. Then plot concludes and a new one, completely different starts. After 4 episodes, the characters have lived so many different traumas with so many plot turns, that is completely... weird.

So basically is a must watch for any hardcore fan of SciFi. But it will be forgotten soon.
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