The Bearded Trio

AD ASTRA Starring Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Liv Tyler and Donald Sutherland Written by James Gray and Ethan Gross Directed by James Gray Reviewed by Patrick Gibbs      Out of Four Director James Gray ( The Lost City of Z)  has been very upfront about the influence of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness on his film, Ad Astra, a space drama set in the not too distant future. But he seems so intent on creating his own Apocalypse Now  that he should have gone ahead and just calyoled this movie Apocalypse Later . Image Courtesy 20th Century Fox While working on a massive antennae area high above the earth, Astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) is nearly killed when  a mysterious power surge in space causes him to fall off the array and through the atmosphere, performing a spectacular HALO jump.  recruited on a special mission to travel to mission to Neptune to hunt down his father, a legendary astronaut named Clifford McBride ...