ISS Movie

[KathyNS]

The premise of this film is that international relations between the US and Russia have deteriorated to the point of nuclear war. The US and Russian crews on the ISS are each ordered by their respective governments to take over the station at all costs.

My main criticism of this film is that they don't do anything interesting or original with the premise. I am not going to give any spoilers, because there is no need. If you have ever seen any Hollywood movie, you can already predict how this is going to go. Chances are that you can even predict (at least in a general way, since you don't yet know the characters) who survives.

If you are hoping for some awesome special effects, don't hold your breath. Sure there are detailed CGI views of the exterior of the ISS, I'll give them that. But the zero-G scenes (essentially the whole film) include many of the actors standing around in awkward poses trying to look zero-G-ish. Some of the scenes appear to be done with wires. They are tolerably well done,but that stuff has been around since 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Speaking of 2001, one whole sub-plot was plagiarized directly from it. It is a human being bad rather than a mad computer, but otherwise the exact same.

The sound track is bad. The little ISS rooms have poor acoustics and probably don't allow for proper microphone placement. As a result, much of the dialog is hard to hear. It doesn't help that almost the entire film is overlaid with an annoying dramatic "music" track that is far too loud and drowns out the mumbling actors.

My reaction at the end was that that was an hour and a half of my life that I would never get back.

[Bigzmey]

When I saw the title I thought maybe you captured a cool movie of ISS transit. Ah well...

[StarHugger]

Movie scenes were two people fight each other over the steering wheel of a speeding car or a runaway train come to mind here and of course hollywood is buried deep inside my head from childhood on so far as all the suggestive thoughts do profess to me...

Here we go again Kathy!

[Graeme1858]

So you didn't rate it then?

Graeme

[helicon]

Would they really start fighting given insane orders? The fact that the earth is a torched inferno visible from the windows of the ISS would give me pause, also the realization that both sides are going to die in space with no relief launches ever coming.

[KathyNS]

Would they really start fighting given insane orders?

A symmetrical double mutiny would have been a much more interesting movie.

The fact that the earth is a torched inferno visible from the windows of the ISS would give me pause

The film delivers plenty of that. And the "special effects" for it are really hokey! The Earth looks like a Jackson Pollock painting. The first astronaut to see it says, "Keep everyone away from the windows!", presumably so that we, the audience, don't have to look at the bad artwork so much. The director makes sure that we do, though.

No, @Graeme1858, no stars for this one. I wouldn't even give it a 1-metre meteoroid.