The premise for this film seemed slightly intriguing so I gave it a chance despite my doubts. I thought perhaps the trailer was returning to form by not giving away too much. Instead the filmmakers literally filmed enough scenes to form the trailer. Thankfully this film was only one hour and thirty-five minutes because this was a bore.
The plot is straight forward with both onboard Americans and Russians trying to gain control of the I. S. S. While watching I kept hoping something would happen to give this film some depth but that never happened. Since this film takes place in a single location with a cast of only six people it is very easy to predict everything that will happen.
Frankly, no creativity went into this film. The visuals were barebones as well as the characters. The characters had names and that's all they had. The actors weren't given anything to work with. Each character had a couple of lines of dialogue and had to make do with the minimum they were given.
I found it hard to believe that Americans would be sent into space with Russians and would not be able to speak Russian. There were parts where the Russians would speak Russian but there weren't any subtitles to let the audience know what was said. So it felt as if they were speaking for no reason.
This film missed an opportunity at creating a thriller that could off also been a political/war drama.
The standards for theatrical releases should be reconsidered because there should be no reason why this film should be in theaters. This is easily an early candidate for worst film of the year.
The plot is straight forward with both onboard Americans and Russians trying to gain control of the I. S. S. While watching I kept hoping something would happen to give this film some depth but that never happened. Since this film takes place in a single location with a cast of only six people it is very easy to predict everything that will happen.
Frankly, no creativity went into this film. The visuals were barebones as well as the characters. The characters had names and that's all they had. The actors weren't given anything to work with. Each character had a couple of lines of dialogue and had to make do with the minimum they were given.
I found it hard to believe that Americans would be sent into space with Russians and would not be able to speak Russian. There were parts where the Russians would speak Russian but there weren't any subtitles to let the audience know what was said. So it felt as if they were speaking for no reason.
This film missed an opportunity at creating a thriller that could off also been a political/war drama.
The standards for theatrical releases should be reconsidered because there should be no reason why this film should be in theaters. This is easily an early candidate for worst film of the year.