Well Deserved Praise

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Blistering performances.

This movie started out ok, this movie could have been good. Good idea, decent actors, Then...???... 4 "astronauts" are a part of a study on the phycological effects of extended space travel, where they are isolated from the outside world. Studied and watched in a underground "pseudo" space ship, that mocks ship life.Locked in, days start to pass, but there isn't a gradual people start to lose it, it's all of a sudden people lost it, then weird other stuff starts happening. Which then you start to question what's really happening to some of the characters. GREAT! This is what is keeping me watching... but that's all that happens, the story goes deeper into this rabbit hole, and then...... Nothing, absolutely nothing, all this build up of what happened, what's real what's not then, white light, literally, and credits. I sat with my jaw on the floor and said "Are you f'ing kidding me!? You're not gonna finish?" There is not even an ending where it could be maybe it was all a hallucination or maybe something happened to earth (which was very vague by the way) and they are screwed, and you can kinda talk it out with someone who watched it with you... nope it just went blank and didn't finish. What a waste of time. I watch a lot of cheese, a lot of B rated titles and this was just pure lame sauce!

Seriously, how anyone can think that this juvenile attempt at cinema has any redeeming features is quite beyond me.The movie is that vague, disjointed and has such a 'really?' ending that some reviewers seem to want to add their own interpretations into the storyline. If this is 'experimental' cinema, it's a failed experiment the like of which we've never seen. Alchemy or the fountain of youth are more believable premises that this utter waste of time.Dan Cook, in particular, cements himself as a B-movie hack, playing the role of a knuckle-headed Neaderthal who somehow got picked for astronaut training. Of all the clichéd characters in the thing, his is the worst and hearkens back to the dreary days of the 70s and 80s. Equally so, I'm guessing the sets were bought at a straight to video 80s film yard sale such is their 'authenticity'.Trust me, believe the 1 or 2 star reviews. The comparisons to 'Moon' are apt. This is just as poorly composed and trite. As for those giving anything beyond 2 stars without some excuse should have to sit through another bout of this cinematic diaohrrea.

I was willing to put up with 89 minutes of the low-budget quality of this 'film' just so I could see what apocalyptic calamity had befallen the earth during the crew's 400 days. In the last minute the director and the rest of the incompetents implicated in this pathetic attempt at storytelling just gave up and left the viewer with a whole lot of nothing when we would have taken almost anything. Nothing endings only work well if crafted by skilled storytellers. Inception had a great nothing ending. For his sake, I hope this director just ran out of money – at least that would be a reason which would compute. You're not being 'cool' 'edgy' or 'neat' by ending it this way. Netflix even got in on the scam by claiming in the description that the crew weren't sure if the 400 day test might actually be real. This was never the illusion they were dealing with. Anyway, I guess I'm the fool for not checking here for reviews first. Fooled me once...

This is an interesting movie with an amazing cast. A lot of reviews on here indicate that the movie lacked a real ending. I recommend watching it for yourself, and getting your own take on it. What I personally got out of it is that the whole thing was, unknown by the four astronauts, "reality TV" for 400 days, an extreme, psychological Big Brother. Cameras recording them 24/7, even night vision cameras on the "planet surface". At the end, the congratulating video with the applause, then the hatch opening, with bright light shining down at the end after all of that primitive darkness. This movie will make you think, I highly recommend watching it!