‘Spaceman’ Review: Adam Sandler and Carey Mulligan Navigate Marriage Across the Universe in Absorbing but Trite Netflix Sci-Fi

is in the title role of Czech astronaut Jakub. The actor’s goofy sweetness is entirely subsumed into a 21st century Major Tom, a character steeped in the profound sadness and insecurity of isolation, who responds to the arrival of an alien intruder aboard his ship — either dating back to the birth of the universe or simply manifested by Jakub’s anxious mind — like an addled neurotic who’s found a really good therapist.

Day’s adaptation strips away most of the political background of the 2017 novel, leaving only residual traces of Jakub’s search for redemption for the sins of his father, an informant for the Communist Party publicly disgraced following the fall of the regime. That thread isn’t sufficiently robust here to persuade the viewer that Jakub’s heroic goal is about much more than personal glory.

Lenka has in fact sent a recent video message to Jakub, in which she tearfully shares her loneliness and her dissatisfaction with the marriage before leaving town to stay with her supportive mother and figure out what to do. But Commissioner Tuma intercepted the message and decides to withhold it rather than risk Jakub becoming unhinged with emotional distress.

Jakub resists the creature’s overtures for a time, keeping his distance and agonizing over what he worries is a mental breakdown. But gradually, the spider becomes such a soothing presence that he gives it a name, Hanuš. There’s much talk about the fate of Hanuš’ planet and the origins of the universe in the purple cloud, its energy inexorably pulling them in. But all that outer-space expansiveness ends up being mere background to Jakub’s examination of his marital failings.

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