TL;DR – This is a film that has the appearance of wanting to say something profound, but never actually gets around to saying much of anything.
Score – 2.5 out of 5 stars
Post-Credit Scene – There is no post-credit scene
Review –
In some respects, Netflix has been the
saviour of the small concept science fiction film in recent years as cinemas
abandon anything but the next tent pole franchise blockbuster. However, for all
the wonders of Annihilation (see
review) and films like that, there has
been a slew of mediocre dull affairs. Today we look at a film that at first
look feels like it should be the first, but unfortunately,
it ended up being the latter.
So to set the scene, there were many attempts to forestall the coming abyss
including making a satellite to harvest geothermal energy from other planets.
However, it was all in vain because
before they could intact their plan, the atmosphere on Earth turned bad
becoming toxic at most lower altitudes. Most people that could leave the Earth did
so in a great exodus for the space station IO around Jupiter’s moon Io. There
are few people left on the planet but Sam Walden (Margaret Qualley) is one of
them, trying to find a way to fix the planet rather than flee it. Well, on IO
they have finally stored enough energy to send people off on interstellar
colonisation missions, so they are stopping the evacuations of Earth. Sam has
one choice, give up her father’s research and get on the last ship out of a
dying planet, or be left behind.
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