ridiculous rating

Really Surprised!

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

I wanted to start by calling this film the poor man's "2001: A Space Odyssey", strictly referring to the film's budget. But I realize that, in fact, the director William Eubank it's poor in ideas and imagination. Indeed, after Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece and after "Solaris" by Andrei Tarkovsky, it's not easy to achieve another great film in the same genre. To stay 1h 24 min looking at an insipid guy, who do not eat, do not drink, do not poop, do not masturbate, he's just talking to himself and we see how practical his beard grows in space, it is really stressful and claustrophobic, even more stressful and claustrophobic than the movie character says he feels. And there was nobody to tell Mr.Eubanks that in space there is weightlessness? His haunted character and all the objects in the space station do not respect the law of gravity. Still, the film's music is not bad and the last 5 minutes of the movie have something beautiful and poetic.

I don't understand the reviews claiming that this is a film detailing ''the human condition'. It's a pretentious film that darts back and forth between scenes that add nothing to this apparent exhibition of what it means to be isolated. The film is full of long drawn out shots of the main character sitting down looking at something in his hand. I watched it to the very end and found it to be devoid of any message or story of any kind. The aesthetics are very nice but that's about it. You will get more of a study of this 'human condition' watching Maury. Steve McQueen portrayed isolation better when he was throwing a baseball at a wall. Avoid this film.

This review contains a quote that spoils the movie but a description of my experience watching this film and my unforgettable feeling towards it's message, and I'd like to share it with the world.This movie is without a doubt my all time favourite. I watched it a couple years ago and really loved it's powerful message and remarkably beautiful visuals. The ending gave me such chills and made me feel so engulfed with Love. I watch the ending every now and then just to experience that feeling. I'm writing this in my review because I recently viewed the ending again while very high and can honestly say that I had the most incredible memorable moments of my life. It was a feeling that I had never felt before. I felt like I had left my body and became one with something else. I believe I experience an overwhelming connection to the overall meaning of the movie. All this that I've said may be seen as odd to some people but I thought I would just share my relationship with the movie since it made me feel something special, in case there's someone else out there who felt something too. I'm not saying you must see this film. I'm just simply here to share my experience.I'll leave you with a quote from the end that may sum up what I've felt and I hope many others feel. Not just from this movie but from many other beautiful encounters they might have."Good evening. Tonight has been a wonderful experiment. Of human contact. I symbiotic relationship. Between man, and machine, and you. The human brain is capable of millions of connections. Each one is a memory, an event. Tonight shall be remembered not by one, but by thousands of these relationships. As you leave here tonight, close your eyes and travel back to here, to now. And always remember that this was one moment you were not alone. And you felt something that thousands of others have felt. And it was... Love"

I watched the movie due to the synopsis on Netflix and the awards it displayed. Have you ever seen a painting that looks like a dog ate a box of Crayola crowns then threw up on a canvas? Then a bunch of art critics rave over the painting as "insightful" and "deep" and "awe inspiring"? Then you find yourself scratching your head and wondering if you're in the midst of a live reenactment of "The Emperor Has No Clothes". The painting is clearly garbage, but no one wants to speak up and say so because they don't want to be seen as an imbecile by the art community. That's what we have with this movie. This should have been a 10 minute short. So much of it is just a waste of time. Well, the guy is in a space station all by himself. He gets lonely. We don't need an hour of him being lonely to get that point. In the end the parts and pieces are not tied together. Some reviewers say it does. *** Contains Spoilers *****For example, there is an Ark containing human knowledge and the thoughts and memories of certain humans. The Civil War soldier stumbled on it back in the 1860's. How did it travel back in time? How did it get built in the first place? Did humans build it knowing the end of mankind was near? If so, why did they leave the guy on the space station?Apparently the humans on Earth have all died. We can assume it was due to a war, but we don't know. In the end of the movie it appears that he found out he was rescued by aliens. Ironically, the message he receives is that in order to survive humans need to form a connection with another human being (Love). But, the aliens don't provide him with any kind of interaction. He's all by himself with an alien sending messages telepathically. I assume it's telepathically because the movie does a horrible job at conveying this message. So the entire point of the movie is that he is the last human being alive, aliens have found him, aliens have told him humans need a bond of love with others to survive, but the aliens leave him all alone. To me that's the ultimate form of torture. Well, the next to the ultimate form of torture. The true ultimate torture is sitting through this movie.