One Hundred Million Dollar.

That's a lot of money to make a movie that does about nothing. Technically this is really good. It looks great but it's an empty vessel.
There are no surprises in this movie. None ! If you don't see the twists at the end coming from a mile away you're not paying attention (which I could forgive) or have never seen anything similar.
There isn't even hope in the story. Everyone on Earth is dead. Augustine will die, the two astronauts going back to earth will die. And in a best case scenario the couple on the ship will get back to K23, or what the designation was. And after living for who knows how long, they will die, too. Leaving their daughter and possible siblings behind to ....., die. Right ! There will be no new Earth as you can not rebuild a civilization with two people. That's about it. Mankind's dead. And in case I didn't miss it, they didn't really showed why.

There was no emotional investment on my part, I stopped the movie five times and when it was running I was looking for stuff on ebay. The story never got to take me with it. And the movie fades into nothingness.

What's the point ?

Okay, I get it: I have seen many critiques about this movie relying upon inaccurate science and featuring plot holes here and there. I admit to a bell going off in my head when our main hero Augustus seems to exhibit no death-like characteristics after diving into frigid arctic waters. But I have a tendency to suspend my disbelief in science fiction movies if the characters, the dialogue and the general story keep my interest.

What kept me connected to the action was not the spaceship stuff, but rather the faltering, slowly developing interaction and relationship between Augustus and Iris, the girl left behind during the evacuation. It is handled patiently and believably. I found myself quite invested in them becoming close. (And I am setting aside the odd hints that Iris might not even exist outside Augustus’s own mind.)

The scenes on board the spaceship Augustus is trying to contact were less compelling for me. My, those folks were consummate professionals, weren’t they? They bantered back and forth, but where were their emotions for the most part, except under extreme duress? Besides Maya, I wouldn’t have been shocked to learn they were androids.

The Midnight Sky was entertaining enough to keep my interest, but it seemed to leave several questions in my mind, not the least of which was: it is well and good to send Adam and Eve to populate a new planet, but outside of serious incest, how are they to get past the first generation?