“The Midnight Sky” (*1/2 out of four) was a ponderous and pretentious melodrama set in the future in which a dying scientist (George Clooney who also directed) awakens after a global meltdown and has to warn an astronaut (Felicity Jones) and her crew (David Oyelow, Demián Bichir, and others) not to return home while he befriends a lost mute young girl (Caroline Springall) and tries to keep both of them alive. You keep thinking something substantial or significant is going to happen but nothing ever does as film dawdles and drags through much post-apocalyptic and futuristic hooey we’ve seen before and much better. Slickly made and certainly well-shot but hollow and pointless. Clooney has done much more inspired work on both sides of the camera.