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Ad Astra is about a career astronaut and soldier, Maj. Roy McBride, who is tasked with attempting to contact his distant father. The elder McBride is suspected of sending dangerous anti-matter surges into the solar system from his ship in orbit around Neptune. Of course, everything goes horribly wrong for Roy and he ends up making it his mission to go out to Neptune to confront his father himself. The film stars Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Liv Tyler, Donald Sutherland and Ruth Negga. It is directed and co-written by James Gray. I expected to be wowed by this film after reading that this space drama also included subplots about pirates and apes, but I was very disappointed. Those extras don't