# Prospect (2018)

What an unexpected joy. A father and daughter are living a hard-scrabble life out on the frontier when their plans go astray.

Pedro Pascal steals the show with his performance with a character that speaks as if Shakespeare had written a spaghetti western. The set design was phenomenal as well. This carves out a new lane of scifi, imagining the Apollo 11 era of spaceflight mixed with the lived-in aesthetic of the Alien franchise. The result is a believably crap futurism unlike anything I’ve seen before.

My only complaint is that the plot itself is overly familiar and won’t hold many surprises after the first act. But who cares when it’s this fun and lovely?