I would not be as brash as the other negative reviews here; as long as you don't mind the plot unfolding sloooowwwwlly you should watch it yourself and make up your own mind. This is not an action movie although there is the occasional bout of interpersonal shouting, shoving, attempted thumping or incompetent wrestling. It is a drama which takes place on a spaceship traveling from Mars to Earth, the three persons on board having little to do in the way of work apart from minor inspection and maintenance duties.
My complaint is that as a psychological drama it doesn't break any new ground but misses opportunities to explore the what, how, and why of the hallucinations the, (in my view very young) crew members experience. Yes, the screen play uses flash backs and a lot of hopping back and forward in the story time line to show each character's subjective experience and I presume that is in order *not* to be a mundane and boring narrative; we the viewers have to work it all out for ourselves. By and large the movie lets us do this, but these three characters are supposed to be the intellectual cream of the crop of university aged students in a future human society on Mars. That being so it seems unlikely that they would all be so naive and lacking in insight concerning the fact of them each having hallucinations.
Even if they were all hopeless geeks it beggars belief that the company or government department running the Revitalize Earth project would leave them to run amok on such an expensive spaceship without benefit of some comprehensive training in psychological theory and practice. In other words they would have been discussing their situation in a more rational and insightful way rather than just bickering like a bunch of gormless primary school kids
My complaint is that as a psychological drama it doesn't break any new ground but misses opportunities to explore the what, how, and why of the hallucinations the, (in my view very young) crew members experience. Yes, the screen play uses flash backs and a lot of hopping back and forward in the story time line to show each character's subjective experience and I presume that is in order *not* to be a mundane and boring narrative; we the viewers have to work it all out for ourselves. By and large the movie lets us do this, but these three characters are supposed to be the intellectual cream of the crop of university aged students in a future human society on Mars. That being so it seems unlikely that they would all be so naive and lacking in insight concerning the fact of them each having hallucinations.
Even if they were all hopeless geeks it beggars belief that the company or government department running the Revitalize Earth project would leave them to run amok on such an expensive spaceship without benefit of some comprehensive training in psychological theory and practice. In other words they would have been discussing their situation in a more rational and insightful way rather than just bickering like a bunch of gormless primary school kids