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‘Spaceman’ Review: As a Czech Astronaut Suffocating from Loneliness, Adam Sandler Gets Lost in Space
It's an art-house science-fiction film with too little going on, like "Solaris" remade as a slow-motion Hallmark card.
So when you sit down to watch “ Spaceman ” (also made for Netflix), in which Sandler plays a morosely bearded and tired-looking Czechoslovakian astronaut who is six months into a solo mission to the far side of the solar system, you give him the benefit of the doubt. He does a fine job of establishing the spatial dynamics of the ship, which inside looks very 1970s Eastern European (old metal painted in drab shades of tan and chartreuse; aging equipment; lots of storage-unit clutter). Sandler, speaking in a faint accent, plays Jakub, who floats around the ship in his sad-sack stupor, killing time as he heads toward a massive psychedelic lavender nebula.
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