The Midnight Sky movie review: There’s no dawn at the end of George Clooney’s disastrously dull Netflix film

The Midnight Sky Director - George Clooney Cast - George Clooney, Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, Kyle Chandler, Demian Bichir, Caoilinn Springall The Midnight Sky movie review: George Clooney sports a Santa Claus beard in his big-budget sci-fi thriller. Fancy spending two hours wondering if George Clooney’s beard has grown longer before your eyes? Written by The Revenant co-writer Mark L Smith and based on the book by Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Midnight Sky stars Clooney as a terminally ill scientist who stays behind on a ravaged Earth, while the remnants of humanity head off into space, looking for a planet to colonise or something. Meanwhile on the scorched Earth, Clooney’s character, Dr Augustine Lofthouse, runs into a young girl named Iris.