A movie worth missing: Midnight Sky

 Here's a movie that's worth missing: The overly familiar and pointedly ridiculous space odyssey (did we need another) the Midnight Sky, starring and directed by George Clooney, who ought to know better (stars directing themselves rarely works btw). GC plays the role of what appears to be the last man on earth: Some kind of unexplained radioactive disaster has killed most of the world's population and some survivors to try to endure in underground outposts (never explained nor depicted); GC is one of the few left behind, manning a radio outpost in the Arctic and dying of cancer (thus, expendable?). A space ship with an all-star crew is headed home after an unsuccessful attempt to explore a previously undiscovered moon of Jupiter that they thought could be a refuge for earthlings (you figure the chances!). Anyway, from that premise onward we endure a couple of ridiculous and improbable romances, rescue scenes, and space accidents, all of which look to be crabbed from previous space movies (e.g., Mars, Arrival for 2 recent much more engaging films) as Clooney gives us his best impersonation of Mandy Patinkin mumbling into his beard. I don't know what else to say about this movie except that it's not credible even for a moment and the central mystery of the plot - who is the 7-year-old girl left behind w/ Clooney? - should be clear to anyone who's actually trying to follow the plot of this film.