Film Review – Crater

“Crater” isn’t the usual Disney production, with screenwriter John Griffin looking to deliver a more dramatic experience, using the run time to delve deeper into character and handle delicate emotion carefully. It’s a tale of a special journey across dangerous terrain, only here the setting is the moon, watching a collection of sudden lunar explorers deal with a special road trip and all the challenges they encounter along the way. Griffin isn’t looking to comedy to support this examination of young people and their concerns, trying to take these personalities seriously as they deal with friendships, adult realities, and a permanent separation. “Crater” is for patient viewers, and director Kyle Patrick Alvarez (“The Stanford Prison Experiment”) generates a warm sense of bonding and partnership with the space odyssey. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com