Voyagers 4K 2021 Ultra HD 2160p

The main characters were born specifically for this important mission. Their high intelligence and impartiality were supposed to save humanity, continuing their life on another planet. But one day the team reveals the secret of the expedition. It turns out that a remedy is a control. And when control weakens, their feelings and desires break free, and with it the dark side.

Voyagers 4K Review
The prospect of colonizing other planets is stuck in the mind somewhere between fantasy and a relentlessly looming future. No matter how much we try to close our eyes to environmental problems, sooner or later we will have to look around: the creators of Generation Voyager believe that this will happen in 50 years. When the Earth comes close to exhausting its resources, a new planet will be found. which can become a home, however, the path to it is long - almost a hundred years. Just one generation will have to be sacrificed for the welfare of all mankind. Children conceived in test tubes from the best representatives of the nation (scientists, Nobel laureates and other decent people) will spend almost their entire lives on board the ship so that their descendants can see the brave new world.

The beginning of the film is somewhere between teenage dystopias like "Divergent" (directed by the same director Neil Burger) and more or less reasonable sci-fi, but this is just the beginning: the further the expedition goes into space, the deeper the plot falls into the lacuna of assumptions. A huge ship full of high school students should look like a school from the Linklater films or at least the Netflix series, but there is an amazing discipline on board: teens study, eat dinner, buried in a plate, and do not even touch each other. The organizers of the colonization, including the kind of dad of laboratory children (unexpectedly quivering in the role of counselor-educator Colin Farrell), decide to hold back the rampage of hormones with the help of food additives (or rather, a blue solution with vitamins). Of course, one day everything will go wrong, and the sterile corridors of the ship will be engulfed in puberty flames.

If we continue to speak in terms of references, with which the creators also partly think, then "Generation Voyager" is a kind of mass-market version of the slow film "High Society" by French director Claire Denis. There, on the contrary, "human garbage" was sent to explore cosmic non-existence - prisoners, criminals and murderers who were supposed to find out what was hidden in the belly of a black hole. On the way, they served as the genetic foundation for experiments with fertility, by and large, reproduction is the main goal of the voyagers. But where Denis looked into metaphysics and other secrets of the universe and man, Berger's mothballs should be replaced by genre. But the film does not cope with the popcorn attraction either.

Apparently, teenage (anti) utopias are unlucky this year: just like the long-suffering "Walk of Chaos" just released, "Generation Voyager" thoughtlessly rushes across the screen, trying to prop up the claustrophobia of the ship from all sides. Spectators are offered not the most dynamic excursion on board: here is the struggle of alpha males for power, here is lust, here is a bit of a fight club, and an alien is crawling overboard on the hull of the ship (or not). Usually, a closed space, on the contrary, stimulates the production of genre endorphins, but not in this case. The attempt to construct "Lord of the Flies" in space crashes precisely because of the bet on naked emotions: the impulsiveness of adolescents and the rampage of hormones from a theme turns into a method of plotting.

Throwing a love triangle with talented, in general, young artists (Lily-Rose Depp, Ty Sheridan and Finn Whitehead), diluted with brisk cut-outs about the essence of life of earthlings (such videos were watched by Leela in "The Fifth Element"), end with truisms about what it means to be human and where to find the balance between emotions and self-control. But if something touches a living, it is more likely another hemisphere of the situation concerning fate and destiny: it can be sadly noted that we are all moving on the ship towards a new happy life, which only our grandchildren will see.

Info Blu-ray
Video
Codec: HEVC / H.265 (71.6 Mb/s)
Resolution: 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Audio
English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English: Dolby Digital 5.1

Subtitles
English SDH, Spanish.