Slingshot

Name: Slingshot
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Released: August 30, 2024
Duration: 109 min
Rating: 52

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Bleecker Street Media | Release Date: August 30, 2024 | R

Summary: Slingshot follows an elite trio of astronauts aboard a years-long, possibly compromised mission to Saturn’s moon Titan. As the team gears up for a highly dangerous slingshot maneuver that will either catapult them to Titan or into deep space, it becomes increasingly difficult for one astronaut to maintain his grip on reality.

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Thriller

Rating: R

Runtime: 109 min

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The Guardian Phil Hoad

Oct 30, 2024

It labours for an hour to find its own thematic core, but as the psychological pieces accumulate, the film starts to exert an inexorable pull in its exploration of cognitive dissonance and mental illness. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Aug 28, 2024

The Swedish director Mikael Håfström, whose best-known American film is the chilling 2007 Stephen King adaptation “1408,” employs jump scares and quick cuts to capture the looming sense of danger (or is it paranoia?) aboard the ship, while the screenplay by R. Scott Adams and Nathan Parker takes the story back and forth between the present-day unraveling on Odyssey-1 and flashbacks on Earth. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Aug 28, 2024

It’s a somber, serious experience that won’t appeal to everybody, but it’s quite smart and will keep you guessing until its last seconds. Read full review

Collider Chase Hutchinson

Aug 30, 2024

Slingshot is more of a murky mystery where the big revelations don't hold up under scrutiny. Read full review

James Berardinelli

Sep 3, 2024

A problem with this movie, as is too-often the case with productions set within the confines of a space craft/capsule, is that the filmmakers don’t trust the inherent dangers and claustrophobia of the situation to be sufficiently suspenseful. Read full review

Katie Walsh

Aug 30, 2024

There’s just simply nothing to hook into aside from Fishburne’s performance, which is the only captivating element of the film, and even that is derivative of his iconic Morpheus from “The Matrix.” Despite its many twists and turns, Slingshot shows no signs of life. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Aug 30, 2024

Consistently boring in a manner that almost feels defiant, “Slingshot” plays as a shallow COVID lockdown allegory for most of its runtime, before insultingly spiraling off the rails. It feels like a movie that hates its characters. And hates you too. Read full review

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