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A very decent Swiss movie with excellent special effects and some nice spaceship designs. Sort of takes place during the time when TOS is supposed to...late 23rd century...so its actually not a near future SF story--which we've had plenty of lately--and that's a nice change. The trailer makes it look like and action movie, but its not. The rating on IMDB is OK, but its actually much better than this, I'd give it an 8.
I don't know I seem to remember something about the human race being extinct except for the people on the ship the crew of which then all ended up being killed or otherwise died and the main character left to float in space with no way back and little air...
She did save the colonists though I think, but the planet they arrived at didn't look too hospitable to me and wasn't it different from the pictures they had of it?.
I'll have to see if I kept it after I watched it to confirm any of that.
They discovered the Earth was habitable again without having to travel light years to start a new life on a new planet. The whole population of the space station was shown receiving this message.
I saw it at a genre film festival a couple of months ago. I found it to be decent. Plot-wise, it may not be completely original, but it's a damn fine effort, especially considering it was apparently Switzerland's first-ever science-fiction film. I must say, though, that I found some of the effects a little shoddy -- just too obvious CGI. Again, I'll forgive it, in light of the fact that its budget was somewhere in the neighbourhood of just $2 million U.S. -- and the set design was actually quite impressive.
As for the story elements that have been discussed in the thread so far:
I don't think that the human race was almost extinct. It was just that Earth had become uninhabitable, so most of the population now lived in overcrowded space stations orbiting the planet.
There was ostensibly a habitable planet with a thriving human colony on it, where Dr. Portmann's sister lives with her children. It's where Portmann wants to go after she saves up enough money from these cargo runs.
The twist at the end, though, is the revelation that the colony planet, Rhea, is a lie: all the people who think they live there are actually plugged into a collective virtual reality simulation while in a physical state of quasi-stasis on a space station. The crew of the Kassandra think that they're delivering equipment or something for the station, but they're in fact delivering more people for the simulation.
It's also revealed that the supposed terrorist group that Samuel belongs to has discovered that Earth has become capable of supporting life once again, and that humans can start re-populating it. Laura and Samuel sabotage the station so that it can't send or receive any more messages, but before they do, Laura sends a transmission to the Sol system, letting people know about the deception of Rhea and that Earth is habitable again.
Laura's EV suit almost runs out of oxygen, but Samuel gives her what remains of his supply, thus sacrificing himself to save her. She returns to the ship and heads back to Earth, to further expose the truth.
It's a solid film overall, IMO. I think there's enough of an emotional connection to the main protagonist to make it engaging to viewers (more so through her relationship with her sister than the "romance" that she develops with another character, which I personally found a bit forced). I'd say any sci-fi fans looking for a new mystery-thriller in a space-ship setting should give it a shot, if they get the chance.
Watched it, enjoyed it. Thought it was a bit too long though, could have done with being 20 minutes shorter. The plot is a bodged together amalgam of several other movies and not very original, certainly not almost 2 hours worth.
Also, a lot of the CGI was very well designed, particularly the space station, but then they totally blew some basic greenscreen stuff. But it was made on a very low budget, so some slack must be given.
I saw it at a genre film festival a couple of months ago. I found it to be decent. Plot-wise, it may not be completely original, but it's a damn fine effort, especially considering it was apparently Switzerland's first-ever science-fiction film. I must say, though, that I found some of the effects a little shoddy -- just too obvious CGI. Again, I'll forgive it, in light of the fact that its budget was somewhere in the neighbourhood of just $2 million U.S. -- and the set design was actually quite impressive.
As for the story elements that have been discussed in the thread so far:
I don't think that the human race was almost extinct. It was just that Earth had become uninhabitable, so most of the population now lived in overcrowded space stations orbiting the planet.
There was ostensibly a habitable planet with a thriving human colony on it, where Dr. Portmann's sister lives with her children. It's where Portmann wants to go after she saves up enough money from these cargo runs.
The twist at the end, though, is the revelation that the colony planet, Rhea, is a lie: all the people who think they live there are actually plugged into a collective virtual reality simulation while in a physical state of quasi-stasis on a space station. The crew of the Kassandra think that they're delivering equipment or something for the station, but they're in fact delivering more people for the simulation.
It's also revealed that the supposed terrorist group that Samuel belongs to has discovered that Earth has become capable of supporting life once again, and that humans can start re-populating it. Laura and Samuel sabotage the station so that it can't send or receive any more messages, but before they do, Laura sends a transmission to the Sol system, letting people know about the deception of Rhea and that Earth is habitable again.
Laura's EV suit almost runs out of oxygen, but Samuel gives her what remains of his supply, thus sacrificing himself to save her. She returns to the ship and heads back to Earth, to further expose the truth.
It's a solid film overall, IMO. I think there's enough of an emotional connection to the main protagonist to make it engaging to viewers (more so through her relationship with her sister than the "romance" that she develops with another character, which I personally found a bit forced). I'd say any sci-fi fans looking for a new mystery-thriller in a space-ship setting should give it a shot, if they get the chance.
Alright, thanks maybe I missed it since most of that sounds familiar. The subs weren't exactly the greatest on the version I had though which could be part of it. Lots of grammar errors, odd word choices, and a few missing lines if remember correctly.
