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The Titan review – unexciting Netflix sci-fi squanders its premise

Sam Worthington is a lifeless protagonist in a film about a government genetics experiment to evolve man into space

Sam Worthington, the 41-year-old Australian actor, has become something of a sci-fi mainstay. And despite his unimpeachably good looks, directors keep turning him into aliens, or quasi-human hybrids, or terminators. Most recently, in the new Netflix release The Titan, Worthington plays a military man who’s subject to an insane government-funded genetic experiment, causing him to lose his hair, shed his skin, and acquire, among other strange metamorphoses, bat DNA. By the end of the film, he looks a lot like his character in Avatar, in other words far from the chiseled handsome actor he actually is.

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