Simply A Masterpiece

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

This film is so ambitious and such a spectacle unto itself that it really defies reviews that spring from the typical needs of a moviegoer, and yet it really isn't quite an "art" film either. From the outset you just have no idea what is going on, and so you are forced to author your own plot in the most satisfying way. Besides a manuscript somehow lodged in the hull of the ship, What is the relationship between the eerie opening Civil War scenes and the solo mission 200 years alter? I love visual puzzles like this, and frankly they keep me loyal to the end, which may make me a weak critic. However, I want to do more than simply applaud the risks and experimentation, because I feel there is something very solid in the payoff that you truly do have to decide what to do with.

It's hard to find a good Sci Fi movie. And this turd didn't make that statement any less true. I honestly can't recall the last time I saw anything this utterly lacking in any redeeming qualities. Watched it on Netflix and I'm still angry that the lowest rating I could give it was 1 star. I want to give it negative stars. He's in orbit but obviously experiencing full gravity, with no explanation. All ground stations simply stop responding to him at once and his response is almost nil. Eventually they send him a single cryptic message about how they don't have the manpower to de-orbit him then refuse to explain what the hell is going on. The movie flips in and out of Civil War history clips, dream sequences, interviews with nameless individuals with no apparent connection to the story and random shots of all sorts of odd things, in such a chaotic fashion it's impossible to establish if there even IS a plot. The audio is full of odd noises which are sometimes the radio, sometimes his delusions(?) and sometimes just background noise for the soundtrack. He decides to end it all by de-orbiting himself (not by firing himself out of an airlock or something to send him earthward but by lowering himself on a cable; in what gravity?!) then decides not to. Goes nuts and stops grooming himself and spends enough time growing facial hair and wallpapering the station that the dwindling O2 which made him want to end it all would surely have run out. Then a Borg Cube shows up out of nowhere and then he wanders through old abandon buildings for a while in a space suit with laced boot, no oxygen tanks or fittings to attach such (but with a closed helmet; breathing what?) And we end with some complete nonsense about a large building crashing in the desert in the 1800's? And we wrap it up with more gibberish about companionship and social interactions. Painful. Save yourself the agony and avoid this.I suppose that (maybe) if you were on strong hallucinogens you might see some deep hidden meaning or something but I highly doubt it and don't recommend trying it. I think the more likely scenario would be that it would just confuse and depress you. So if you do try that, make sure to have someone around who can rescue you. Horrible, horrible junk. I'm just stunned that anyone could put that together, sit through it and say, "Well, great job everybody! We've done it! The movie is complete."

One of the worst movies I have ever seen.. Good cinematography I guess but the story was utterly incomprehensible and disjointed. I want that 86 minutes of my life back please. I didn't want to write a spoiler but being forced to write 10 lines left me no other choice. It starts out with a civil war episode that leaves you wondering WTF movie did I get and then suddenly you find yourself on a space station. The earth goes black and no one can even send a 1 line text message to the station to let them know what's up. Instead, apparently the only method of communication is video. Anyway, you sit thru watching him being terminally bored for about an hour and then bam.. He's walking around in some kind of hotel or something and bam, the movie ends. WTF?

It started with an incorrect synopsis on Netflix, that Lee found a way to travel through time. At first that made the most sense, since it showed civil war combat at the beginning, which was by far the best part of the movie. Then began the downward spiral into nonsensical, grossly incorrect ISS imitations. At first I told myself it is simply low-budget, they didn't want to CGI weightlessness. It was interesting to try to piece together his character through the snippets of history they show you. It was still irritating to see him walking around on his feet. But for me, the worst part is they show him doing SO MANY gravity-required tasks. Fine, you don't know how to set up a weightless harness. But you don't need to continually show that gravity exists! Just hide it a bit! Drinking water from a bottle, showing it slosh around? Why not just put water in a ziploc baggie to imitate space drinks? JOGGING ON A TREADMILL? Just add some exercise bands to tie him down to look like actual space treadmill running. PUSHUPS? Laying in a twin bed with sheets? Just use a sleeping bag strapped to the wall. COME ON! Jesus, has the writer/director ever seen a space movie? This is simple, cheap stuff. No creativity.The last scene for me was when he woke up to smoke. That was pretty exciting, but then they totally botched it. He jumps up, all intense, runs for his mask, which was a neat addition. Then he grabs one of those plastic clamps you get at lowes... proceeds use it on a pipe and it makes a ratchet sound... WTF? then the pipe falls loose and sucks up the smoke. Wait... no fire? This movie can't really be so pretentious that it wants you to think he hallucinated smoke to vacuum up, but no fire? It literally makes no sense. And I tried my hardest to give it artistic liberty, but there was just far too many lazy flaws in editing and basic concepts.I could not see past the slews of glaring flaws. I did however like how eerie it was to have the control panel light up with strange interference sounds. If it focused on that aspect, and less on random cuts to blurry video tapes and the wall of $10 walmart fans, it would have been a neat movie.