Review – Solaris

Wow, this one really puts the “space” in “spacey.” George Clooney plays a space psychiatrist dispatched to a station orbiting a planet that appears to be driving people insane. When he gets there, he discovers first that a chunk of the crew is dead, second that the remaining two are mentally unstable, and three that his dead wife is suddenly alive again. The rest of the picture is the planet playing mind tricks and the humans playing tricks back. It’s pretty. It’s not too noisy. But I remember Stanislaw Lem’s novel as better than this. Mildly amusing