Confusing. Eratic. Emotionally charged for long periods with a huge expectation which never comes to fruition. Not to relax to, or laugh at, or get into, or wonder at (except perhaps for what the heck is happeing most of the time). It COULD have been a dynamite film, but it wasn't. It hinted, badly, at a great plot, while bashing my ears with mediocre trancelike musak, while cutting from one silly scene to another in an endless (or did t merely feel like endless) cycle of nothing to nothing shots of nothing but what we've seen before.We get instant gratuitous shot of the close up of a woman's arse coming straght from another unrelated scene. What does that signify? Nothing at all!We get a smoke alarm waiting until the entire ISS is filled with a toxic smoke until it rised in pitch enough to rouse this astronaut from his deep slumbers, from which he leaps, instantly awake, to dash across the entire length of the station, while clutching his tshirt to his face, to get to his face mask/respirator! Ugh!? Talk about adding stupid action/drama to break the endless boredom and FAILING!NOt sure why I didn't give this a 2. I remember someone once saying that "a true bore is someone who can go on and on about something which is the tiniest bit interesting." and this film sums it up perfectly. It always appears to be on the point of something better, revealing, telling, informing, happening, and nothing ever does. Until the last scene which is not explained or examined and does not fit at all.Perhaps the book is better? But I seriously doubt it.

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 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.

An extra effort to be able to convey the artsy value, this in the contrary film kind of fails to deliver a meaningful story. The movie starts out interestingly with the civil war sequence and the contrast move to the space age. But then it wears out its welcome when it takes the isolation scenes a bit too far then change to a crude reproduction of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. I've suspected such a move since early on with the all too similar opening scene of orbital shot of earth. But the later on redoing the whole significant parts of Kubrick's work; hallucination scene, the warped out light speed kaleidoscope scene, and even remaking its own black monolith, is a low effort indeed. Yes this movie gets artsy with all that abstractly reachable scenes and the great sound works. But that's just it; the story doesn't even do justice to all the viewers' curiosity successfully built. The acting is quite nice though. Acting alone Gunner Wright can handle those close up shots well enough with his varied expressions.