In space, no-one notices a farce

Rating: 3/10 (18 April 2014)

Coincidence and luck tend to work in fast-moving terrestrial action films where the event is at least plausible and the action moves on before your logic can gainsay it. But in the vastness of space, not even one long-shot is reasonable, let alone a sequence of them. In space, if something has to pass by something else at a distance of a few metres or hit it by luck, then it isn't going to happen even once. Yet this film's plot is constructed from little more than impossible coincidences whose only purposes are first to threaten and thereafter keep the lead actress alive. Better she get killed off early and move on with something more believable like aliens running windows-compatible software a la Independence Day.