Voyagers

Name: Voyagers
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Released: April 9, 2021
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 44
Cast: Archie Madekwe, Archie Renaux, Chanté Adams, Colin Farrell, Fionn Whitehead

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Lionsgate | Release Date: April 9, 2021 | PG-13

Starring: Archie Madekwe, Archie Renaux, Chanté Adams, Colin Farrell, Fionn Whitehead, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Lily-Rose Melody Depp, Madison Hu, Quintessa Swindell, Tye Sheridan, Viveik Kalra

Summary: With the future of the human race at stake, a group of young men and women, bred for intelligence and obedience, embark on an expedition to colonize a distant planet. But when they uncover disturbing secrets about the mission, they defy their training and begin to explore their most primitive natures. As life on the ship descends intoWith the future of the human race at stake, a group of young men and women, bred for intelligence and obedience, embark on an expedition to colonize a distant planet. But when they uncover disturbing secrets about the mission, they defy their training and begin to explore their most primitive natures. As life on the ship descends into chaos, they’re consumed by fear, lust, and the insatiable hunger for power. … Expand

Director: Neil Burger

Genre(s): Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 108 min

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Alonso Duralde

Apr 7, 2021

Voyagers is a smart and effective little sci-fi thriller about the best-laid plans of scientists crumbling in the face of teenage hormones and human frailty. Read full review

Ty Burr

Apr 7, 2021

Voyagers shows that Burger can still move a story along with craft, pace, and skill, even if that story is, in the end, awfully predictable. Read full review

Matt Fowler

Apr 7, 2021

While sci-fi is generally rife with allegories, a steadier hand was needed here in Voyagers. The messaging, though noble and necessary, feels obvious to the point that it takes you out of the film. The cast is talented and the premise is promising, but the story plays out in a predictable fashion, which also works, in a way, to undercut the meaning. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Apr 7, 2021

The middling but enjoyable Voyagers is meant to be a timeless parable about the primitive essence of human nature; if its space-age shenanigans are broadly identical to the beats of a book William Golding wrote about a group of preadolescent boys who crash on a deserted island during World War II, that’s more of a feature than it is a bug. Read full review

David Rooney

Apr 7, 2021

The conflicts feel just a tad too routine and the characters too thinly drawn to get the blood flowing. Read full review

The Telegraph Ed Power

Nov 4, 2021

Despite its ambitious goal of transposing a dystopian classic to the modern “Young Adult” genre, Voyagers is ultimately about as effective as a leaky space-suit. Read full review

Johnny Oleksinski

Apr 8, 2021

Burger’s half-assed attempt at an updated Lord of the Flies makes you long for a good old-fashioned school bus and a pig’s head on a stick. Read full review

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jovincen

Apr 17, 2021

Good movie. I recommend it.

So many movies these days are rubbish, or are so riddled with PC group think they're unwatchable.

Pleasant surprise... Simple story but a good one.

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garethvk

May 14, 2021

The classic novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding is not only a beloved classic but has been assigned reading for generations of students since it was first published in 1954. The book has been adapted into plays and films over the years and remains a chilling and poignant cautionaryThe classic novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding is not only a beloved classic but has been assigned reading for generations of students since it was first published in 1954. The book has been adapted into plays and films over the years and remains a chilling and poignant cautionary tale.

In the new movie “Voyagers” audiences are introduced to an Earth that has been ravaged by climate change and disease. In an effort to save the species; a grand experiment to genetically create a group of children who are the origins of a colonization effort is undertaken.

The planet is 86 years away so the decision is made that the children will be raised and trained indoors without any exposure to nature, open skies, fresh air, and other aspects they will be deprived of on the ship.

Richard (Colin Farrell) decides to accompany the children on the mission as he wants to protect them and ensure things go as planned so their progeny will be well suited to continue on the mission to the next generation who will ultimately be the ones who colonize the planet.

Ten years into the mission things are going well until a discovery is made that a drink the children take daily known as “The Blue” is a drug used to suppress their emotions and keep them docile and easy to control.

When friends Christopher (Tye Sheridan) and Zac (Fionn Whitehead); who learned the secret of the drug decide to stop taking it; they soon reveal the truth of their discovery to the rest of the children who in turn stop using the drug.

In no time rampant emotions, aggressions, desires, paranoia, and mistrust start to run wild and Zac becomes obsessed with Sela (Lilly-Rose Depp). His unwelcome advances soon become more and more aggressive which causes Christopher and Richard to intervene and tragedy soon follows.

Christopher and Zac soon find themselves at odds with one another and fear and paranoia lead the crew to form into factions and turn on one other which not only threatens the mission but their very survival.

The film was very engaging and while I saw the influence of Lord of the Flies early on; the engaging cast and setting make the film entertaining and enjoyable despite any really unexpected twists.

The young leads work well with one another and it will be very interesting to watch how their careers unfold in the years to come. “Voyagers” is a refreshing new take on a classic tale and provides an entertaining and engaging adventure for viewers to enjoy.

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Ronath

Apr 15, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Basically *The Lord of the Flies* in space.

It's a horror story about a potential issue with Generation Ship, starships that have to travel so far at such slow speeds (such as is currently possible) that multiple generations have to be born on the ship, and the colonists, have no real touchstones to Earth beyond records they bring.

In Voyagers, they try to minimize this by raising the crew in isolation for their first decade and a half before sending them on their way, with one parental figure. Concern about overpopulation and how the kids will turn out as they grow older, they're drugged to dull their personalities, with the plan for the second and third generations born in incubation chambers rather than through intercourse. This plan falls apart as a few of the crew, being intelligent twenty year olds, discover the drug and not sure what it's purpose or reasoning for it is, stop taking it. They promptly become sensation junkies, which isn't too bad until the lone adult dies suddenly and the rest of the thirty member crew also stop taking 'the blue'. With only a handful of documents and media from their 'father' left over (which were supposed to be destroyed to ensure the crew wasn't tainted by Earth) they struggle with concepts that most people of their ages should be done with, like fear of the dark, fear of strange sounds, lack of understanding of death or harm. They aren't mentioned specifically, but hinted at, the majority of the crew don't know the words to describe their emotions, because they haven't had them, or a reason to explain them.

An interesting movie, with interesting themes, and perfectly well done, worth seeing at least once, but probably not a rewatch for me.… Expand

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malvada

May 11, 2021

Entertaining I guess, Interesting plot, it had potential. However, the acting is a bit off, borderline right between satirical and bad.

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skeletorone

May 4, 2021

Voyagers is a rather lazy attempt of exploring topics like groupthink, lawlessness and fear mongering. There is no subtlety and nothing to really think about, because everything is presented in black and white. The result is a boring movie with mostly unlikeable, comically one dimensionalVoyagers is a rather lazy attempt of exploring topics like groupthink, lawlessness and fear mongering. There is no subtlety and nothing to really think about, because everything is presented in black and white. The result is a boring movie with mostly unlikeable, comically one dimensional characters.… Expand

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

JLuis_001

Apr 23, 2021

There's quality in the production, and intrigue in the premise, but in everything else it seems that an extreme laziness took hold of those involved in this tedious, inefficient, predictable and mostly empty science fiction story.

Zero interest in their characters and zero interest in theirThere's quality in the production, and intrigue in the premise, but in everything else it seems that an extreme laziness took hold of those involved in this tedious, inefficient, predictable and mostly empty science fiction story.

Zero interest in their characters and zero interest in their fate.
No development for them, and therefore you don't engage with them.

If that doesn't set off your alarms right away, I don't know what else could do it. If so, maybe you will find something here that I simply couldn't.… Expand

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

Annellia

Apr 30, 2021

It's terrible, the story doesn't make any sense and it is all over the place. The editing is atrocious. None of the characters are believable. It's a film that lazily tries to explore its themes with its inept dialogue.

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