• Science Fiction
• Thriller

Slingshot 2024

The 2024 film Slingshot is an American science fiction psychological thriller directed by Mikael Håfström and written by R. Scott Adams and Nathan Parker. The plot follows an elite, three-person crew aboard the spacecraft Odyssey 1 on a perilous, multi-year mission to Saturn's moon, Titan, to collect vital resources. The astronauts, John (played by Casey Affleck), Captain Franks (played by Laurence Fishburne), and Nash (played by Tomer Capone), endure repeated, three-month cycles of hibernation, but when a critical malfunction is detected, the stress and the side effects of the hibernation drugs begin to fracture the crew's trust. John, the central character, starts experiencing vivid and disturbing hallucinations—including his former lover Zoe (Emily Beecham) on the ship—and struggles to distinguish between reality and paranoia, leading him to question whether his mission is real, a test simulation, or if his crewmates even exist. Critically, the film received mixed to negative reviews, with Rotten Tomatoes giving it a 39% critics' score (though the audience score was higher), often praising Casey Affleck's performance but criticizing the script as derivative, uninspired, and relying too heavily on its ambiguous final twist, which leaves John's fate and the reality of his journey uncertain. Commercially, the film was considered a box office bomb on its domestic release (August 30, 2024), grossing approximately $818,279 worldwide against a projected opening weekend of around $2.5 million, though it later found an audience in streaming. Read More

• 2024
• 1 h : 48 min
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