Many spoilers ahead.
To begin at the end - it doesn't have one.
What became of the crew in this ? Who knows ? The writers certainly didn't. They set up an intriguing problem, of just the kind to attract the interest of the viewer - and didn't bother setting up a solution. Films are not supposed to be slices of life - they are, as a rule anyway, meant to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. This had a beginning and a middle, but not the other thing. Which makes the 1 hour and 49 minutes of its running time - the last 8 minutes are taken up with the end credits - a bit of a waste.
As for the rest of the film, the first hour and a bit was well worth watching, despite the gaping plot-holes (how did the stowaway succeed in stowing away ? The viewer is left to guess the answer to that) and the unlikely psychology (would a crew on a journey to Mars really be so tolerant of a just-discovered stowaway ?). The film begins to go downhill with the B plot, the inevitable question of how to divide oxygen intended for 3 people among 4 people instead.
This is a build-a-bear film, like the Disney Star Wars trilogy - the viewer is granted the dubious privilege of filling in the bits of the story that the writers, for reasons best known to themselves, left blank or unfinished.
I don't think it's an abysmal piece of trash, by any means - such films do exist - but I think 5 stars is about right.
To begin at the end - it doesn't have one.
What became of the crew in this ? Who knows ? The writers certainly didn't. They set up an intriguing problem, of just the kind to attract the interest of the viewer - and didn't bother setting up a solution. Films are not supposed to be slices of life - they are, as a rule anyway, meant to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. This had a beginning and a middle, but not the other thing. Which makes the 1 hour and 49 minutes of its running time - the last 8 minutes are taken up with the end credits - a bit of a waste.
As for the rest of the film, the first hour and a bit was well worth watching, despite the gaping plot-holes (how did the stowaway succeed in stowing away ? The viewer is left to guess the answer to that) and the unlikely psychology (would a crew on a journey to Mars really be so tolerant of a just-discovered stowaway ?). The film begins to go downhill with the B plot, the inevitable question of how to divide oxygen intended for 3 people among 4 people instead.
This is a build-a-bear film, like the Disney Star Wars trilogy - the viewer is granted the dubious privilege of filling in the bits of the story that the writers, for reasons best known to themselves, left blank or unfinished.
I don't think it's an abysmal piece of trash, by any means - such films do exist - but I think 5 stars is about right.
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