Reviews

I really enjoy these sci-fi disaster movies. It's kind of like a ship lost at sea, but with better tech and gadgets. Space is a dangerous place and there's room for weird storylines. This delivers, but the package that is received has been shaken around in the mail somewhat.

A woman is working on a shuttle cruiser running people between Earth and Mars. An accident occurs and they get thrown off course into off into uncharted Space.

The focus of the story should have been a little more around the technical and not so much about a single relationship between two women. The perspective of the whole movie is from one of them. A bit more focus on the Captain and his burden would have been interesting, as example. I also would have liked more inventiveness and struggle toward finding a way back. Contact with Earth and home would have been worth looking at. Why didn't they? It's not said. I wrote it off to a coverup and they must have said all hands were lost? The bit at the end where they arrive at a new planet could have been a hallucination? What happened in some of the large jumps in time? That should have been where the focus should have been. It's all a bit vague and rushed. Would make a great mini series, with the extra time. Maybe the book was better? A bit more time into the slide into despair and madness would have been a better focus for the plot. It was there of course, it just lingered focus too much on the relationship, and her fixing a projector entertainment piece of equipment when it could have been so much more if it tapped into the panic one might really feel being in that situation. What happened to all the kids? The floating sarcophagus analogy at the end and the state of things implied they all died? We'll never know.

There's a lot more questions and ponderings but....

If you like a slow burn space film with decent props and sets in a vague, futuristic, kind of depressing setting, this is one to see.

This episode inserted something that shouldn't have been there. My girlfriend saw it coming before I did and I was in denial until it happened. It's the absinthe scene with Dorian and the gunslinger. Strangely I could have gotten past it but she could not. It was way out of character and was put there to appeal to, certain groups. Made no sense and there was no indication the gunslinger character was that way inclined. She cant watch this series any further. Such a shame, I was quite enjoying it but I'm not watching it by myself and she was outraged at the ruining of the main character. Reminds me when they did it in Black Sails, that pirate series. Stopped watching that one too. Inserting that stuff is just wrong and it was the end for that series too. This is where we get off.

The characters were annoyingly distant and terrible at communication. Whomever wrote the story was close to something good but it seems like they have never actually talked to a human being before. There's lots of long pauses, characters ignoring questions, not asking questions, not making valid arguments to their purpose, not compromising on their wants, all kinds of strange behaviour. I suppose it could be because they're damaged by a tortured life, but it swings from sanity to insanity constantly. I wouldn't want to be on a ship with either of them. They're too weird. I wouldn't even want to go on a road trip with them. I'd rather walk.

The ending was a bit loopy. What happened to that guy on the golden planet. I'm not the brightest spark but even I could tell it was inhospitable. They can't survive there. He should have accepted it was a dead end and tried the other guys plan. Simply stating that he wanted to check it out, and if there was nothing there they could move on to plan B. But instead, I gather he lost his marbles and called it a day. Not a logical choice, he still had other options.

That said though, I think it brings home a good 5/10 because it kept me curious and the sets, costumes and acting were excellent. It's memorable and almost has the winning combination of story, art and mystery.

Superficial characters and American diversity and social engineering flood the screen in this stinker. It's Chris Pratt playing himself again as he tries to emulate what the writers think women want. One interesting missed opportunity was Pratt finding the ship at the end. That should have been the twist. He released, or woke the aliens and started the whole thing. That should have been the plot. Instead they blow the whole ship and end doomsday. It would have made sense and tied into why he became withdrawn and left his family then died a few years later etc. He started the whole thing by going out his own. Pratt released the dormant aliens. That would have been interesting. It almost looked like that's what they were originally going to do? But instead they went for the standard happy ending. Wasted opportunity to really mess with the audience and make an average film into something memorable.