ReviewFilm review: The Space Between Us – young adult sci-fi romance beggars logic and plausibility
Too many flaws in this story of the only child born on Mars, whose existence is kept a secret but escapes to Earth to meet a friend he met online
1/5 stars
Aiming squarely at the lucrative young adult movie audience, The Space Between Us pursues its flimsy lovers-on-the-run premise, complete with science fiction elements and a terminal illness, with a blatant disregard for logic or plausibility that borders on the insulting.
Gardner (Asa Butterfield, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children ) is the first human to be born on Mars, but has been kept there in secret by space mission director Nathaniel Shepherd (Gary Oldman) for the past 16 years.
After meeting Tulsa (Britt Robertson), a rebellious foster kid, online, Gardner ventures to Earth for the first time against Shepherd’s wishes. Shepherd fears the boy’s body can’t withstand the gravity on Earth. On arrival, Gardner escapes and goes in search of Tulsa, with Shepherd in hot pursuit.