DJariya

Bandoman

Ridiculous premise, but could be good with that cast. I'll give it a try.

GoldenJCJ

^ Based on that short plot description, I’m thinking the stowaway is just a squirrel who chewed the ships wires?


I can’t help but think of Brad Pitt’s character in Ad Astra when I read the premise though. And that was pretty ridiculous.

Inhumans99

I am with Bando, there has been a surprising number of films/shows lately that involve someone involved in a long-term space mission to go to Mars, etc., who end up having to deal with a crisis a jillion miles away from help on Earth. However, the cast for this film is rock solid so I am on-board.

Groucho

The trailer immediately explains it.

Looks pretty good from the trailer, I'll probably give it a spin.

GoldenJCJ

I miss funny Groucho.

TheBigDave

The plot sounds a bit similar to the classic sci-fi short story The Cold Equations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cold_Equations

If anyone's interested, they can read the story here:

The Cold Equations - Lightspeed Magazine

Decker

Anna Kendrick = Streaming Queen. This is her fourth different show for four different streaming services in the past 18 months (Noelle - Disney + , Love Life - HBO Max, Dummy - Quibi )

dex14

And voiced an animated series for Facebook Watch.

DJariya

Bump

This is up today

TomOpus

At least it's a movie and not some series.

DJariya

I feel like every time a new Netflix original series comes out, there’s virtually no excitement for it. This forum is probably like ugh that’s 8 to 10 more hours of backlog that I have no time for.

TomOpus

Just seems like everything new is YA series that just isn't interesting to me. I'm close to dropping Netflix because of it.

Dan1boy

Exactly, brotha, exactly.

Groucho

It's so hard to have "water cooler talk" about a series when all of the episodes are dumped in one go, since everybody is on a different episode.

Josh-da-man

It also doesn't help that most of the series Netflix is putting out now are pretty blah and banal.

It doesn't seem like they've had many mainstream hits like House of Cards or Orange is the New Black in a while. And Stranger Things, but that hasn't really been buzzy or water coolerly since the first season.

I think Tiger King was the last one that really captured the public's imagination. Which was funny at first, then you realize those are real people and it's all true, then it became depressing.

TomOpus

Really didn't enjoy this starting with why this person was able to stow away. Didn't buy it. And it went down from there. Ending was kinda meh.

Daytripper

I liked this, a lot. It was intense and incredibly sad. All four leads turned in really strong performances. I had never heard of Shamier Anderson before and was especially impressed by him. He has such a kind face and a sweet soul. You really root for him. Two thumbs way up. 8.5/10 rating.

maxfisher

This was decent, but it felt like a sketch of a movie with a lot left out, including an ending. The four performances were good and it had some nice scenes, but was fairly forgettable overall.

dex14

Agree with this.

There are worse ways to spend two hours than to watch Anna Kendrick as an adorably sweet doctor/astronaut.

TheGuy

The whole thing made no sense. The stowaway was in the rocket that brought them up. The air thingy that he damaged was in there. The whole other space lab living area had no air thingy? And only one on a 2 year mission?

MLBFan24

Watched about 45 minutes. Snooooozefest.

There have been a lot of these “realistic” space movies these days. And a majority of them have been duds.

For the recent movies, I’ve only liked Interstellar, The Martian, and Life (2017)

DJariya

I finished this yesterday. For a movie with only 4 principal actors, it's pretty long. But, there was some good acting and some good dramatic tension. But, the idea of how Michael got trapped in the overhead of the ship and left unconscious without anyone knowing he was missing was a little bit of a stretch.

The ending felt abrupt and incomplete. But, I guess we're supposed to assume that:

[email protected]

I felt this had really strong performances, but was too poorly written to be anything but barely average. Too many perfectly timed coincidences, too many unanswered questions. Wanted it to be better than it was.

Red Dog

It was so obvious that was coming. I was expecting solar flares once they went out to space walk.

And how the fuck do you have a stowaway and not know about it upon take-off?

A really stupid movie. 2 hours I won't get back.