Ad Astra - a dystopian view of the Cosmos

There may be no intelligent life out there - if there is, it may not want to know us

Brad Pitt as Roy McBride in Ad Astra, a harrowing and ultimately sad end to the quest for alien life.

Many sci-fi movies are built around the idea of discovering intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos - or in many cases the aliens discovering us. Ad Astra, a movie that came out in 2019, is not that kind of film.

The story centres on astronaut Roy McBrid…