Cargo

Plot synopsis:
Year 2267. The ecosystem of Earth has been destroyed and mankind is forced to live in orbit. The story of CARGO takes place on the derelict spaceship KASSANDRA on its 8 year journey to a remote freight-station in deep space. The young and inexperienced medical officer LAURA PORTMANN (Anna Katharina Schwabroh) is the only person awake on board. The rest of the crew lies frozen in cryosleep. During her daily patrols, through the eerily empty ship, she begins to get the feeling that she may not be alone on board. She wakes up part of the crew. A dangerous reconnaissance mission into the vast and ice-cold cargo hold ends in a catastrophe, where the captain of the ship dies. The remainder of the crew is awakened. During a second discovery mission into the cargo hold, the crew finds out that the ship carries something completely different than officially declared. Laura uncovers a large-scale conspiracy, where the government is withholding groundbreaking information about the current state of evolution back home on Earth. After a dramatic showdown, Laura is able to shut down the source of misinformation and bring back proof to uncover the conspiracy. However, this inconvenient truth may start a revolution.(LONG SYNOPSIS ***SPOILERS***)Beautiful images of endless wheat fields and bright blue skies. A tall and good looking woman dressed in white gently touches the ears of the wheat. Suddenly, a superimposed text destroys the dreamlike imagery: "Come to RHEA". The entire image becomes distorted, and literally drifts away: the images were a commercial for the planet RHEA on a free-floating TV billboard in space.Behind the billboard, a derelict, uninhabitable planet Earth appears, several giant space stations rotating in its orbit. The sun rises on the horizon. Superimpose: Year 2267.A dyzzing flight into one of the space-stations. Everything rotates. We finally land in a departure gate, where the young medic LAURA PORTMANN (Anna-Katharina Schwabroh) is waiting for her flight to leave. She has decided to work as medical officer on a cargoship named KASSANDRA. The Kassandra will spend 8 years in deep space transporting building materials to a remote space-station. Most of the time, Laura will be in cryosleep. Although she doesn't like this assignment, she knows that it will give her enough money to pay for her long awaited journey to the planet RHEA. There, she will finally be able to meet her beloved sister ARIANE PORTMANN (Maria Boettner) again. RHEA is the new Earth: Intact nature, back to the roots, but only the rich can afford to live there. Most of the people live cramped in the space-station orbiting Earth.Laura's flight is called. She sends a last videomessage to her sister Ariane before leaving: Just 8 more years, and then she'll have the money to come to her.Laura enters the Kassandra. The ship looks old, derelict and spooky. The crew consists of the captain, PIERRE LACROIX (Pierre Semmler), the first officer ANNA LINDBERGH (Regula Grauwiller), the security agent SAMUEL DECKER (Martin Rapold), the technician MIYUKI YOSHIDA (Yangzom Brauen) and the two flight engineers CLAUDIO VESPUCCI (Michael Finger) and IGOR PROKOFF (Claude Oliver Rudolph).Decker shows the crew an informational video about the "Luddites". The Luddites are terrorists who fight against and destroy technology. They already attacked several space stations in the past and have now threatened to sabotage cargo flights as well. The crew is asked to report any suspicious incidents immediately to Decker.Shortly after takeoff, the crew enters the cryosleep tanks. Only Lacroix stays awake and takes over the first wake shift. His shift will last for six months. After that, shifts will rotate. Only one person will be awake at one time.4 years later. The KASSANDRA is on its way into deep space. Its destination: The remote space-station "42", a freight distribution station. The only passenger awake on board is Laura. The rest of the crew: frozen in cryosleep. Laura makes a note in her diary: Another four months until her wakeshift will finally be over.Laura patrols the ship and tediously fills out the report forms. From time to time she sends videomessages to her sister Ariane. Because the messages take several months to arrive, the replies from her sister are outdated and from last year. No communication really takes place.During her repeated inspection tours, she more and more suspects that someone else, or something else is on board. She knows that this kind of paranoia may emerge during long wakeshifts. So she considers everything she sees and hears a result of her being alone for such a long time. Until one day, she hears such a loud and disturbing bang from the cargobay, that she suddenly realizes: This can't be an illusion!When she checks the lower decks, she finds scratches on the cargo hatch and hears more of the loud banging. In panic she wakes up the captain Lacroix and the security agent Decker. They decide to have a closer look and check out the cargo area. But the reconnaissance mission into the dark and icy cargobay becomes a fiasco: Lacroix is killed in a strange incident, while Laura and Decker are almost trapped inside the cargo hold.The two survivors wake the rest of the crew. Laura is convinced that something dangerous is on board. But the first officer Lindbergh, who is now in command, is sure that Lacroix's death was nothing more but an accident. Lindbergh suggests that Laura suffers from isolation paranoia and should get some rest. Decker remains silent.As responsible medical officer on board, Laura performs an autopsy on the dead captain. In his skull, she surprisingly finds an artificial eye, which contains a video recording. When she plays it back, she sees containers in the cargobay that are marked with a "Danger - Biohazard!" sign.Laura and Decker undertake a second expedition into the cargo hold. They open one of the contaiers. Inside, they discover that they are full of coffin like cooling tanks. And in each tank lies a body. They open more containers. All of them contain the tanks!With the help of the two flight engineers Vespucci and Prokoff, Laura and Decker try to bring one of the tanks on board of the main ship. But without any warning, the containers in the cargo area suddenly start to shift. Laura gets almost squeezed and thrown into the deadly abyss. With her last strength, she manages to hold on to one of the containers. Until Decker comes to her rescue.Back on the main ship, they meet a very angry Lindbergh: It's officially strictly forbidden to enter the cargo area. Although Laura suspects an assasination attempt, Lindbergh is sure it was just an automatic shifting of the containers. She still suggests that Laura must rest and recover from her isolation paranoia. But this time, Decker is on her side. He demands an investigation.So against Lindbergh's will, Laura and Decker bring the recovered tank to the infirmary, where they manage to open it. Inside, they find a GIRL (Noa Strupler). The girl lies is in a deep coma. Weirdly, her brain is perfoliated with artificial neural tissue, which has grown in from outside of the skull. Laura has never seen such a phenomenon before. She doesn't dare to wake the girl from the coma, as long as she hasn't found out more about the neural tissue. She starts to research. She finally finds a medication that will make the artificial nerve tissue in the brain of the girl regress.In the meantime, Lindbergh and her assistant Yoshida discover that Decker must have secretly left his cryosleep tank several times during the wake shifts of the other crewmembers. Lindbergh confronts Decker with her findings. She blames him to be responsable for Lacroix's death and also for the assasination attempt on Laura. Decker doesn't have enough good arguments to disprove these accusations. Vespucci and Prokoff arrest him. Laura is extremely disappointed. Now she has lost her only ally. When they prepare Decker for his cryosleep, he tells Laura secretly that the Kassandra is not flying to Station 42. He believes that the ship is flying to RHEA! Laura doesn't believe him. She thinks it may be a last attempt to change her mind about him. Decker is put into cryosleep.While she is giving the girl the medication to make the artificial tissue in the brain go back, she receives a videomessage from her sister Ariane. The message is a direct answer to her last question. Which is strange, because usually, these messages take several months to go back and forth.Laura gets suspicious. She asks the technician Yoshida to secretly examine the target coordinates of the Kassandra. And indeed, Yoshida finds out that they had been manipulated: Their effective target is RHEA!Yoshida tries to find out, who has maniuplated the coordinates. But shortly before she uncovers the results, Laura finds her brutally murdered in the lower decks. And more bad news: Decker has left his cryotank! Someone must have set him free! But who is this "someone"?The crew starts to search the ship. Under a ventillation shaft Laura finds a secret storage room, filled with artifacts of the Luddites: Bombs, weapons, military equimpent, leftovers of food - and a touchpanel, where a videomessage is just being edited. The videomessage shows images from Earth: plants of all kinds are growing - it's all green and alive! The head-terrorist of the Luddites, GEORG BRUCKNER (Gilles Tschudi) appears on screen. He talks about the big governmental lie: Earth would be habitable again. In fact, since a long time! But with the expensive flights to Rhea, everybody makes so much money, that these facts are kept secret from the public. Then, just before the videomessage ends, Decker appears on screen, next to Bruckner. He is wearing the uniform of the Luddites! He produly holds a big "Luddites Unite!" banner into the camera!This is when Laura is suddenly attacked from behind - by Bruckner himself! He wants to kill her. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, a shot rings, and Bruckner is killed in front of Laura's eyes. She looks around - but there is no one to be seen.Back on the main decks. Decker has been captured by Prokoff and Vespucci. They torture him to get information about the Luddites. Decker tells them that the planet Rhea doesn't exist. That it's only a simulation. That the artificial neural tissue in the girl's head is proof of his theory. All these people in their coffins in the cargo bay will be connected to a simulator once they arrive on RHEA. Laura at first cannot believe what she hears: How can she still get videomessages from her sister? But when she finally realizes that Decker must be right, it's already too late: She stares into a huge gun, which is pointed at her forehead - by Lindbergh.According to Lindbergh, this was all necessary to avoid a revolution. The first colonization mission on Rhea many years ago was a complete failure. Rhea was not habitable at all. But instead of returning to Earth and telling the truth, the colonizing corporation started to build a giant simulator in Rhea's orbit: Station 42. Everyone who travels to "Rhea" never leaves the cryosleep coffin. Instead, he is directly plugged into the simulator once he arrives on Station 42. There, he "lives" a virtual life attached to the simulator. To avoid suspicion, the people inside the simulation can receive and send message from and to Earth. But they can never leave Rhea again.Lindbergh explains that the secret about "Rhea" is crucial to maintain the peace back home in the extremely cramped spacestations. She asks Laura to understand her point. However, Laura doesn't concede with Lindbergh, even when Lindbergh finally threatens to kill her. Her finger already on the trigger, she is unexpectedly overwhelmed and arrested by Prokoff and Vespucci. They put her in cryosleep and release Decker.Laura and Decker start to build a plan to rescue Laura's sister Ariane from the simulation. But Vespucci and Prokoff have a secret plan of their own: they want to enter the simulation and stay there. They hate their life on the cargoships so much that being inside of a simulation still seems like the better alternative. Their secret plan is to throw two people out of their coffins, and step into the tanks themselves. However, to open the cargo hold, they need Lindbergh's access badge. Vespucci rips the badge off from the cryogenised Lindbergh. He inadvertently contaminates her cryoliquid, which triggers a timer for her wake-up.In the meantime, Laura and Decker have finished their plan: They will secretly leave the ship, once the Kassandra has arrived on Station 42. Decker will hack into the simulation, and send a message from inside of the simulation back home to the people on Earth. This will prove that RHEA doesn't exist. Once the message is sent, he will destroy the antenna system - his message will be the last message ever sent from "RHEA". Laura shall find the tank of her sister, and bring it back to the Kassandra.The ship arrives at the fully robotized Station 42. Laura and Decker are ready to leave the ship in spacesuits. But at this moment, the little girl from the open tank appears in the manhatch - barely naked! The drugs that Laura gave her did obviously work. Although only little time remains before the KASSANDRA will discharge automatically again, Laura chooses to bring the girl in her bunk and wrap her into her some clothes.Meanwhile, Decker exits into space, and attaches the explosives to the antenna system of Station 42. He then tries to locate Ariane's tank. When he finally finds it, he discovers that her body is already decomposing - she is beyond saving.Back on the Kassandra. Vespucci and Prokoff are in the cargo hold. They enter one of the containers. Their plan seems to work so far.In the cryochamber of the main ship, Lindbergh is about to wake up from cryosleep.Laura has hastily wrapped the girl into some warm clothes. She leaves the Kassandra in her spacesuit and tries to navigate towards the main hardware module of the Station 42. But during her flight, she realizes that her jetpack doesn't work properly. The propulsion systems are dead. Without any possibility to steer, she floats through the gigantic station towards the open space. In the last moment she is rescued by Decker, who then brings her safely to the hardware module.At the module, Decker tells her that Ariane is beyond saving. The only thing he can offer is to let her into the simulation, so she can meet her sister for one last time. Although very sad about all this, Laura agrees to the new plan.Decker attaches a neurowave generator to Lauras helmet. He then connects it with the simulator. Laura starts to halucinate immediately - and suddenly she finds herself in the simulation. She is amazed by the beauty of it. It's completely "real". It's perfect! But she has to move on and find her sister.She arrives at a countryhouse. There she meets Ariane. After a long hug, she tries to tell her sister the truth about everything. But when she sees the idyllic world, she isn't able to destroy her beloved sister's illusion. In tears, she runs away. Then, she sends the final message.While Laura is in the simulation, Decker exchanges her fueltank with the one from his own jetpack.When Laura awakes from the simulation, the ship is already about to start. The engines are firing. Huge shockwaves emerge from the ship and travel towards Laura and Decker. The shockwaves push them away from the module. They tumble, and float towards open space. To her own surprise, Laura is able to start and steer her jetpack again. But Decker remains back in space without fuel, which will mean his certain death. He has sacrificed himself for Laura and for the little girl.In tears, Laura reaches the departing Kassandra in the last second. Immediately after she enters the manhatch, the explosives detonate and rip all the antennas of Station 42 to pieces. Laura's message to Earth will be the last one ever sent from RHEA.Laura wants to find the little girl. But she isn't in her room anymore! While Laura is running frantically through the corridors of the ship to find the girl, she is suddenly attacked by Lindbergh. After a fierce battle, Laura wins, and Lindbergh is suffocated in the man hatch and subsequentially sucked out into space.Scared about the whereabouts of the girl Laura aimlessly roams through the now completely empty ship. Finally, she finds the girl safe and sound in the crew cabin. Together with the rescued girl she is now on her way back home to Earth.The last scene shows how Lauras message arrives on all the screens of the space stations orbiting Earth. People get up and listen to the message attentively. Lauras last sentence: "We will now destroy the antennas."Cut to black and credits.

Tags: horror, murder

Review:
Dr. Laura Portmann (Anna Katharina Schwabroh) decides to work in the cargo ship Kassandra in an eight year travel to Station 42 that is in orbit of RH278 to raise money to meet her sister Arianne (Maria Boettner) in Rhea.
What might be the secret of the cargo transported by Kassandra and where the spaceship is going?"Cargo" is a Swiss sci-fi film with a mysterious and suspenseful story visibly inspired on "Abre los Ojos" (the same way "Matrix" was), in an environment that recalls "Alien".
Unfortunately something is missing to be a great sci-fi.I saw this film twice on DVD to fully understand the story and maybe the problem is the excessive information along 112 minutes running time.
The acting is believable i.e. being in space for a long time leads to quirky behaviour, people will do anything for a better life, and who can you trust?
As breathtaking as it is substantial, Swiss film Cargo is what good science fiction should be: compelling, artistic and effective.
From the opening scenes of an alluring foliage-laden planet that characters hope to settle in lieu of an uninhabitable Earth, viewers are pulled into a world of meticulously-crafted sights and sounds.The story of Dr. Laura Portmann (Anna-Katharina Schwabroh) soon unfolds, and her journey as a medic on cargo ship Kassandra quickly turns mysterious when it becomes clear she's not the only one awake during her lonely shift.
Directors Ivan Engler and Ralph Etter also bring signature elements to the table, such as the prevalent cold temperature on the ship and the eerie gel that surrounds characters as they enter cryo sleep.Also noteworthy is the way Cargo manages to be simultaneously epic and personal.
Switzerland's first attempt at sci-fi, and Ivan Engler's first feature film, Cargo harks back to numerous icons of science fiction cinema – everything from The Thing to The Matrix, and, most notably, Ridley Scott's Alien.
It belongs to that particular breed of dystopian science fiction – where the world is ruined and the human race is living on borrowed time.Cargo is a competent sci-fi, but it's nothing special.
Cargo is a low budget movie with a superb look and an amazing story.
The film was entirely shot in Switzerland - a country not at all known for producing science fiction movies.The story is solid and involving.
It develops steadily, gets more and more momentum and works its way to a climax with some very nice twists and breathtaking space scenes.I was fascinated during the entire movie how these guys were able to produce such a good looking film with so many special effects for such a small budget.
And it is a fresh look on a VERY IMPORTANT issue, giving a wonderful but sad perspective on it.If you like "big thinking" in SciFi, this movie will give you the visuals on how huge things can get in zero gravity, with a beautiful space city in the beginning and a cargo ship the size of the empire state building.While it is a little bit lengthy, I think this is a necessary part to truly give you the cold and lonely feeling of space, and so to make you appreciate the ending and conclusion.Just keep sitting, and you will understand ...Laszlo.
Well I just watched this, its been around for 3 years and I am a big Sci Fi fan so not sure how I missed this.Earth is uninhabitable on the whole so people are now living on giant space stations orbiting earth but these are overcrowded and disease and illness is rife.
Everyone wants to go and live on Rhea a beautiful planet full of life but there is one problem, its expensive !!We follow a female doctor who takes a job on board a cargo ship to earn the money to join her sister on the Utopian planet Rhea.
The acting was on the whole good but nothing ground breaking just simple story telling, the lead female Dr draws you in in a vulnerable sort of way but at the same time shows great strength and intelligence.
Our main character, a doctor, gets hired for a very long (8 years) shuttle cargo round trip to resupply a remote space station.
Sure, it has good suspenseful moments, but it's the kind of slow-paced atmospheric pensive movie where you're more likely to be interested in the unfolding secondary mysteries than on discovering who the killer is, or who might be struck next.
Not sure what I was watching here it look like some one had stuck a few movies togetherBlade Runner, 2001 A apace Odessy, Alien and the Matrix.
Lets be reasonable, the year current is 2012 and with the likes of Batmans explosions and the story telling and acting of The Walking Dead, lets all take a second to look at 2009 and think about why this movie wasn't world renown and the creator and actors showered with gold and trophies.
I watched this film subtitled with English and I could follow the story very easily, I couldn't help but wonder what and where things were going to happen or take place or who was responsible for what and why.I refuse to speak plainly and give any hint of spoilers because I would feel ashamed if I gave away even a hint of this movie to you.This really shows where society is heading and what we need to look out for.
Anyway, I actually really liked this movie, its story, its visual effects, and most of the cast.
I'm just amazed how good this movie turned out considering its limited budget and feel confident that the producer is capable of creating more S.F. greatness - maybe Ivan should have a look at Clarke's RAMA :-) Cargo is great S.F., really entertaining and also showing how easily we're being fooled by media and technology.
The basic concept is the cargo ship going into deep space with its mysterious cargo, and the theoretical world Rhea, which is supposed to be a beautiful paradise of a world, as an alternative to Earth which has been ravaged by horrific industrial pollution, disease and environmental damage.However, as this journey progresses, various layers of intrigue begin to become apparent, nothing is as it seems to be at first .
Cargo presents a very familiar premise: A dystopian future with a desolate Earth is the backdrop for a thriller set in the confines of a cargo ship.And while it starts off as what seems to be the usual Alien clone, it quickly evolves into a very complex mystery, with a far-reaching story arc.
(And I have to say this but I hate it when characters are told they have X minutes left to do something important, but they take their time to walk slowly from point A to point B as if they have no cares in the world).I think the creators could have done a far better job and it's a shame that they didn't because the film excels in most other sectors.
We end up with a movie where we generally believe we are in space.UNFORTUNATELY there was no money left to obtain people who could act and, worse still, no money for a script.
If the acting wasn't so bland and some plot points would be left out, like the really forced romance, in favor of some implicit background story, then this could have been a great movie.
The acting is at times over-dramatized which makes you laugh, at other times it lacks any emotion and feels like they are robots reading their lines.It kind of starts out like a horror movie, reminiscent of Alien, then progresses into a mystery scifi.
The set is beautiful and gives you this cold space-ship feeling like Alien did.
A clichéd space science fiction movie with a mediocre story, lacking any surprises, and certainly suffering from some plot holes.
So, it's a shame that these people, although they are obviously capable of making a film that is technically nearly faultless on a low budget, couldn't come up with a better, more interesting story to tell.
I decided to give it a try because the main plot seemed interesting and because I found it particular that an independent science-fiction movie would come from Switzerland.
As I know that this country has a technical avantgarde status with experiments like the CERN and as it is rather isolated and independent, I was expecting a rather unique movie.Well, the film seems not that unique and could have easily been a small Hollywood production.
The slightly dystopian movie reminds first of a mixture of the stories of "Alien" or "Equilibrium" but it turns out very soon that the movie takes a different direction that rather reminds of "Wall-E" that may surprise you.The movie has a philosophical drama touch and interesting twists that hides a lack of true suspense or horror feeling that could have been established with the main idea.
The whole thing feels like a "light" version of a more complex and detailed plot or main idea with the exception of the main female character.In the end, "Cargo" is a visually stunning and very human conspiracy movie with an interesting twist and a few drama and suspense influences.
The movie has a good premise, and even some original ideas; I certainly had guesses as to where the plot was going, but I was pleasantly surprised up till near the end -- the director/writer didn't take the easy way and do something similar to Sunshine, for example.The visuals are good to great, especially considering the low budget for the movie.
The acting, in my opinion, was quite fine and even pretty good -- though characters started getting less believable near the end, as did the premise.Hopefully the director/writer will continue to do more science fiction flicks and improve on his technique!.
The story is really nicely built up, much like it was in "Alien", building up suspense and keeping the viewer shrouded in the unknown, giving us bits and pieces of the plot every now and then.There was a very nice feel to the atmosphere and environment in "Cargo", and that worked really well for the movie.
It was like being there on the ship yourself with the crew."Cargo" is driven by a good, solid storyline, but it is helped along by the overwhelming claustrophobic atmosphere that permeates the entire movie.
And the cast also did their jobs to help the movie come to life, and I think that they had cast some really nice actor and actresses for this movie.The effects in "Cargo" were great as well, and the space scenes were really life-like and believable.
It really gave off the impression of the size of the ship.If you enjoy a Sci-Fi thriller, in the likes of "Alien" or "Event Horizon", then you definitely should check out "Cargo", even if it is in German.
Definitely worth a look if you enjoy your sci fi on the slower side, but this one may turn off some people that need more action with their space travel..
While the rest of the crew are in cryosleep, Portmann makes the disturbing discovery that someone - or something - else is on the ship with them.Cargo very much feels like a film set in space, rather than a film about space: it's beautiful and convincing to look at.
If you can watch a movie with subtitles and like space sci-if this is a great watch.
The story is set aboard a spaceship in the future and it is obvious that the filmmakers have been heavily inspired by the likes of Alien and 2001 ASO and the story itself is more cerebral than most science fiction films which are usually categorized as horror or action.
Regardless, you should watch Cargo at any cost if you like a good science fiction film..
Regardless, you should watch Cargo at any cost if you like a good science fiction film..
A little flag goes up when you are introduced to all the major characters at once and they happen to look/talk/move like a remedial Space Movie Casting course (only we have a pseudo-Asian women instead of a sassy black man).
Events take a sinister turn as she discovers that there is something untoward going on that puts her in danger.Franka Potent looking Anna Katharina Schwabroh gives a great performance as Laura Portmann in this slow burning sci-fi conspiracy.
As with most European films there's less gloss and the characters feel authentic with the supporting casting giving equally as good turns as the fine special effects.While Arnold Bucher and Ivan Engler's story may come as no surprise to science fiction fans its the excellent visuals reminiscent of Alien and Blade Runner to name a few by directors Ivan Engler and Ralph Etter that deserve credit and capture the imagination.Yes its derivative, but its acted and executed so well it arguably becomes definitive encompassing the better of its kind..
Really bad CGI (I have seen Sci-Fi movies from the 80's with much better effects), illogical speech, weird situations with no reason behind, annoying pace, weak and boring story.
I don't know how they could have made that ship interior look any more like the Nostromo if they had tried.There's one scene where Laura ends up in what appears to be a stowaway's den, very reminiscent of Newt's den under a spinning fan on LV-426 in Aliens.
Personally, i would have liked a bit more back-story of the origins of the ones who built the ships and the space stations as well as more about the ones who remained on earth.
First off, although I am in possession of a Swiss passport, I am in no way inclined to believe that the Swiss have a genetic advantage when it comes to filmaking, contrary to what many of my fellow citizens seem to think.Cargo is by no means a terrible piece of work, but suffers from problems that should have been apparent when viewing the finished movie.
A gigantic space station rendered with respectable detail (especially considering the budget of 5 million Swiss francs) is shoved in the viewers face within a minute of the film's beginning, which is fine, because it consists of spinning parts, shiny things, and a ridiculous number of lights.
And how comes he just knew the sister could not be awaken?That little girl, awakens from a dream-like "simulation" to find herself separated from her parents on a worn down space ship, and she never says a word?
The fact that I know when I started skipping tells enough, because it means I got so bored I went to see how much longer the movie was going to run.The big plot idea is pretty obvious after the big find they make.
Never heard of it before or any of the writers or cast so I didn't have any expectations for this movie at all.What a lovely surprise to find a well acted well thought out Sci-Fi thriller that can compete, and win, against so much of the regurgitated crap that comes out of the US.I couldn't help but feel that the isolation and distance from what used to be Earth had significantly affected these people.One of the great aspects of this film is that you can't trust anyone.
In the investigations they find cargo containers full of people who are headed to the space station 42 where they will live out their lives in full simulation where they think they are on Rhea already.
She also wants to move to RHEA, to live with her sister, but in order to get the money, Laura needs to make one last journey into space.She is hired as a doctor aboard the spaceship Kassandra, an old ship that is going on a long journey to the faraway Proxima system.
Watch this movie if you like to explore space and love a good science fiction horror movie in the vein of Alien and Event Horizon.
Watching this movie is a complete waste of time.Let's start.First of all, this is a senseless version of "Matrix-on-space".For movie maker, writer and producer of this film physic is an opinion.Why one jet pack can't bring two persons?And when the doctor and the agent separate in the end, but what happens?
Also why are people using what looks like current guns so far in the future?After watching this film I have to wonder about some of the reviews written on IMDb..
Again, a little too slow-paced, but this time, it was effective, giving you time to appreciate the massive scale of a space station housing a huge portion of our entire species.I loved the scale of the cargo ship leaving port.
One thing that modern science fiction has failed to give us is a sense of the truly incredible size of what can be built in space.A little more time could have been spent on the characters in the beginning.
For a somewhat low-budget film (~5 million USD) this is well done.The plot is essentially this: In the distant future, the Earth has become uninhabitable and people live on space stations until they can afford to go to a Utopian planet named Rhea.
So there's plot hole number one.Aside from these two bits, and the emerging this-doesn't-make-sense love story between Laura/Decker, the movie continues to do well.
Shipping more people to this space station seems like a gargantuan mistake.As for the "why," this is important.
The government could control space travel to the point where no one would find out what was going on.So we don't know what happened on Rhea or why people were put in a simulator, why 42 is so far away from Earth, among other things.
The atmosphere in this movie makes "Alien" look like "The Sound of Music".
I assume the silence should build up some kinda suspense but it doesn't,it feels empty like the characters cant even react in normal way....i was really struggling no to turn the movie off at that point.