Natalie Portman is an astronaut -- times like these, I miss gendered nouns, pointless fripperies though they be. When we meet her she is blissing out in space, just her in her spacesuit, the earth beneath her, the universe around her. Then she has to come back to Earth and finds she misses floating in the void. She trains hard to make her next mission, but finds life on earth trivial; one moment you're one with the universe, the next you're bowling and thinking about going to Appleby's. She starts to go mad.

It's a pure performance movie, and Miss Portman nails it. Holly Hunter was attached to the role for a while, and you an see her influence on the scripting and the performance -- Miss Portman uses a southern accent. Her character is a little over the top, but it's a handsome little movie. With John Hamm and Ellen Burstyn.

Based on real life events - astronaut Lisa Nowak's criminal activities around her relationship with fellow astronaut William Oefelein in 2006 - 2007 - and altered into the present form by writers Brian C. Brown, Elliott DiGuiseppi and director Noah Hawley, LUCY IN THE SKY is a controversial film. While the messages are mixed, one interesting idea rises: does space travel transiently or even permanently change thought perceptions, thinking and behavior?

Lucy Cola (Natalie Portman) is a strong woman whose determination and drive as an astronaut take her to space, where she's deeply moved by the transcendent experience of seeing her life from afar. Back home as Lucy's world suddenly feels too small, her connection with reality slowly unravels, as her marriage to Drew Cola (Dan Stevens) and her love affair with Mark Goodwin (John Hamm),and the death of her cocky mother (Ellen Burstyn) implode. Lucy communicates with space, gets lost in words, and isn't able to cope, leading to dire circumstances.

The highlight of this overly long film is the CGI effects in space. While Natalie Portman shines as the very strange Lucy her obtrusive artificial accent and communication diminish her credibility as a character about whom we can care. Some good ideas her, but the film simply dissolves - drifting off into space...

I have to agree with most of the reviewers on here, this movie didn't deliver at all. I had high expectations, was hoping for a decent sci-fi movie but instead I got a quite boring drama. I wouldn't say the actors were bad, far from that, Natalie Portman and the rest did their job, but the story was just weak, certainly for the first half of the movie. The movie was also much too long, certainly for the story they wanted to tell. I wouldn't waste too much time on this one if I were you.