I had extremely mixed feelings about this film.
On one side of things, you have some interesting cinematography, some decent acting from the cast, great set design and some very tense moments that pay off fairly well.
On the other side, we have some pretty horrid CGI, a story that makes no sense (if this war is going on, I doubt anyone on the ground would be thinking about the I. S. S., let alone being able to contact them), one dimensional characters, a writer who knows very little about actual science or what goes on in the actual I. S. S., and some very shoddy direction at times.
Instead of making this film about a power struggle, it would have made more sense to have the crew working together to stay alive amidst the limited rations and materials they had to work with and created the tension from there. Instead, we get the old Russians vs Americans game that we've seen in a ton of other movies in the past. Talk about a missed opportunity here.
There's other completely moronic things this film does that lowered the score even more. It was going to get 2 stars, that is until the man who went flying into space is suddenly still alive and climbing on the space station, and then saved, but within 5 minutes of his return, he's offed. Pointless, and a total waste of the audience's time.
Overall, I couldn't recommend it. If you need to see it, see it on a streaming service. Don't pay for a subpar experience like this. Does it have it's moments? Yes, but they are too few and far between to make the film count. And the premise is one of the most dumb I've seen in years.
1.5 space walks out of 5.
On one side of things, you have some interesting cinematography, some decent acting from the cast, great set design and some very tense moments that pay off fairly well.
On the other side, we have some pretty horrid CGI, a story that makes no sense (if this war is going on, I doubt anyone on the ground would be thinking about the I. S. S., let alone being able to contact them), one dimensional characters, a writer who knows very little about actual science or what goes on in the actual I. S. S., and some very shoddy direction at times.
Instead of making this film about a power struggle, it would have made more sense to have the crew working together to stay alive amidst the limited rations and materials they had to work with and created the tension from there. Instead, we get the old Russians vs Americans game that we've seen in a ton of other movies in the past. Talk about a missed opportunity here.
There's other completely moronic things this film does that lowered the score even more. It was going to get 2 stars, that is until the man who went flying into space is suddenly still alive and climbing on the space station, and then saved, but within 5 minutes of his return, he's offed. Pointless, and a total waste of the audience's time.
Overall, I couldn't recommend it. If you need to see it, see it on a streaming service. Don't pay for a subpar experience like this. Does it have it's moments? Yes, but they are too few and far between to make the film count. And the premise is one of the most dumb I've seen in years.
1.5 space walks out of 5.
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