Starring the less drug addled of the London twins and Australian acting legend Alan Dale this little sci-fi movie is better than you'd likely assume.It tells the overused concept of folks in "Hyper sleep" during a long journey through space. Two of them awaken only to learn that they should have woken up many months earlier, the crew are eerily missing and for some reason their tempers seem to be flaring.Truth be told I'm sure I've seen this before, maybe an old Outer Limits episode or something similiar. The concept is bareable and competently enough handled but I couldn't get past the nagging feeling that it was more than slightly recycled.Building to a less than predictible finale this impressed me, and that's hard to do considering I'm really not a sci-fi guy.It still does rate just about an average film overall, but I appreciate the effort and it's certainly better than you'd expect it to be.The Good:Quite well madeThe Bad:Feels recycledThings I Learnt From This Movie:USA turns out to be responsible for every major movie conspiracy

At first the film had me expecting yet another variant on the "alien" formula. However, that turned out to be untrue. Actually, the movie's pretty atypical.Essentially, there are people transporting supplies. Due to the long journey the crew enter hyper-sleep in shifts. The second shift people awoke and found they'd been asleep longer than had been intended. The first shift people were missing.From there the mystery develops. There's no creature lurking around, though. Actually the threat is bacterial in nature. Meanwhile there's another ship attempting a rescue mission. The hyper-sleep crew are kept asleep, those being awake not wanting to introduce these people to a probably hopeless situation (the ship's low on energy and/or fuel).Although the contamination behaves oddly - apparently infection can render someone delusional in seconds, and also get cured in seconds which strains credibility (it's also not clear exactly what the delusional people were thinking), ultimately I was interested in these people and what their eventual fate would be, so ultimately the premise is effective.

I first saw this movie on the Sci-Fi channel in the mid-2000's and it really left an impression on me. Probably the best things about it are the characters and the unexpected ending. Very good acting from London and Crider (and the rest of the cast), and the movie never insults the intelligence of the viewer. Also notable is the altruism and likability of the two main characters. The special effects are adequate to show what's happening in space, but don't take away from the focus of the plot. After years of trying to find this movie on DVD (and trying to remember the title), I finally found a Blockbuster VHS copy and digitized it. This movie is a rare gem. I recommend it not only to sci-fi fans but to anyone who enjoys sitting down to a good movie and who may be tired of the average Hollywood mass produced carbon copy flick.

It's a lazy Saturday and I'm at home, not expecting to find anything worth watching on the tube when I stumbled upon this movie. I have to say that I was very surprised by this film. It's really pretty good. The problem with a lot of sci-fi pictures today is that they fail to create a believable fantasy world. Bad sci-fi flicks suffer from gaping plot holes or scientific impossibilities that anyone who paid attention to 4th grade science could figure out. This film doesn't suffer from such ailments. The writer and director painted a believable picture of a future where humans live on Earth, Mars, and mine the moons of Saturn and interplanetary shipping of cargo is a high pay / high risk job. The two lead characters awake from hyper-sleep 10 months past their scheduled date only to discover that the ship has been ravaged by the two members of the previous shift... both of whom are missing. The suspense starts from there continues to build for remainder of the film. It was pretty suspenseful flick. A lot of that is due to excellent acting jobs by Missy Crider (Frailty, Powder, the TV series The Others) and Jason London (The Rage: Carrie 2, Safe Passage) and a script by Carla Jean Wagner that didn't sacrifice accuracy for an abundant amount of official sounding techno-babble. Put the acting and writing together and you actually end up caring about the lead characters. If this movie a larger budget for props and special effects, it could have ranked up there with films like Alien, or Blade Runner. The ending isn't typical, which only adds to the class of this film. The only problem I can see with the flick are the external CGI shots of the ships... they are good for television, but still obviously generated by computer. Regardless, I still recommend this film. Enjoy!