The Astronaut of God (2020) User Reviews

I quit after 15 min of watching

[Alex-Makabrys · 4/10 · 14 August 2020]

After 15 min I quit , couldn't watch more , the narrator is like a google translate voice - I couldn't stand it ! , same shoots over and over - I've seen moves made by students better then this one ! - sorry but try again

God is annoyed that He has to listen to speech synthesis for 70 minutes.

[NaturalBlood · 4/10 · 16 August 2020]

The idea that God is 'up there' above the clouds or in some nebulous region of space pulling the strings is absurd. To be fair, the film does eventually get beyond 'God on a cloud' approach. But the decision to use speech synthesis is disastrous, making the narrator sound mentally deficient and idiotic in his profundities. Listening to a book via TTS becomes tiresome after 5 min, listening to this film for 70 min is unbearable. After sitting through the computer-generated "I'm OK". "What the hell", "Damn it", I had a great desire to see Tarkovsky's Solaris, which does a better job dealing with the angst of "Who am I?" in space.

In answer to Octavian Repede: the Creator and His creation are one. The renaissance philosopher Giordano Bruno was convinced that the entire universe was held together by erotic love. Love in all its variations ruled the world, from physical nature to the metaphysical heavens, from sexuality to heartfelt love of the mystics: it led either to the animals (sexuality), or to the intelligible, and is then called the divine.

It's just empty.

[fariasluiz · 2/10 · 19 August 2020]

It's impressive how its bad. The lines delivered by the character doesnt impact, because he has a robotic voice so freaking annoying. By the end of the film i was thanking that was over. Also the title and the development of the subject is poorly made. The reflections are too blank.

Awful synthetic non organic voice over, forget this at once !

[christooshop · 1/10 · 20 August 2020]

Like other commentators i concur this is not watchable or listenable to. There are some weird space movies around, this is just plain forgettable.

A belief system shared by fewer and fewer humans gets desperate for our attention.

[mike-monteleone · 1/10 · 31 August 2020]

The choir should watch this with an open mind. The rest of us should avoid the waste of time.

Maybe if this was released in 1963, it would have gotten some traction

[webhead-97553 · 1/10 · 1 December 2023]

Filmed in Romania. The English version is translated and narrated by computer. Maybe it is trying to sound like a documentary.

Written by christians for christians who don't understand science nor fiction. It is a fantasy about a 1962 space mission to find god in orbit. Only a true believer would think it would be that easy. (Maybe if this was released in 1963, it would have gotten some traction.) The idea is not only senseless, but the narration is so dry, it's boring, very hard to stay watching.

He looses cabin pressure, gets hypoxia, has hallucinations and attributes it to the supernatural. Highly unprofessional for an astronaut.

The only positive reviews are from people who think that a space mission to find god is a good idea. This is one of several recent films by christians aimed at science fiction fans. As if they only need to write it in our genre and we'll believe it.

I recommend you skip this film, even if you are a believer. Maybe it is better in the original Romanian.

How did this moronity got international awards??

[sorin86 · 2/10 · 22 September 2021]

Time: 1:02:58 - I thought I would give it a shot. A Romanian astronaut? Intriguing. Well, it got more and more boring by the minute, and more and more annoying with the badly synthesized voices. But at that particular moment we had a heavenly revelation: when we heard that the astronaut had a "luxurious" shoulder, we burst into laughs at this moron's stupidity. Of course, he meant a "dislocated" shoulder, but the moron's English was that bad :D :D And there were morons in this world who gave him some awards for this stupid garbage! (Of course, bad English is continuous throughout the "film".)

Great Ideea

[contact-31812 · 10/10 · 20 August 2020]

Yep, some bad aspects in production but the idea of serching for a form of "God" in Space and unknown and beeing the first in Space, at the Dawn of the US Space Exploration is really great. Clearly an indie production, with great ambitions. Maybe a remake with a real big budget someday. But for a one man production, indie film, I applause.

Romanians can always get great results with little resources

[chitoiu_mihai · 7/10 · 28 July 2020]

The idea of this film is simple: for some people, the search for god will never end, and the more they look, the more fanatic they get.

Bad acting, bad Physics, bad effects and a few English mistakes aside, the movie was quite good!

If you take this script and get a big budget movie, with Brad Pitt in the main role, you would probably see Oscars pooring.

Low budget, but intriguing.

[azazelzel · 10/10 · 21 September 2020]

Watched from begining to end, and these days so much unoriginal garbage out there, which you struggle to get half way through, let alone even get to the end.

In a way this is a little gem.

Romanian Indie surprise

[valentin_anghel9 · 9/10 · 26 May 2021]

It's a bold experiment in format. The texture of the colour, the voice over, the topic, all of that make this film more than courageous, bold.

An Enigmatic Odyssey of the Mind and Soul

[hqcinematics · 10/10 · 8 December 2021]

Octavian Repede's virtually sole filmmaking journey favors the tenor of his film. At just over one hour, the film manages to effectively consider both; the psychology of our faith and the mystifying phenomena(s) that humanity cannot explain. Repede uses his minimalistic budget and diverse filmmaking techniques sensibly to create a beautifully atmospheric and haunting voyage to the edge of our world and our minds.