AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

XoWizIama Excellent adaptation.

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Jack Vasen I've checked spoilers even though I don't think I give anything away.You've read all the negatives about the production and acting quality. It's all true. On the positive side, there are several mysteries we encounter through the movie. Unexplained things are happening, not to mention the opening scene. We are given lots of little clues. That's what kept me going. The trouble is that when it is all over, some of it really isn't explained and what is explained doesn't make sense. This is just a very bad movie.I have complaints about the story that aren't really related to the outcome. The crew is told that video conference privileges will be restricted for a year. Only trouble is, video conferences cannot take place between earth and Mars. The communication delay due to the speed of light makes it impossible. Video messages can be sent. So the issue is mute.Preflight interviews are shown. Based on what we see, some or all of these people should have been disqualified.Their technology must be fantastic. They can make the trip in 7 days. They have huge cabins and long corridors. They have full gravity.The crew doesn't act like they are only a couple days away from landing. Any normal person would be counting down to arrival constantly. These people act like they are on a long journey - months, not days. Of course if they had counted down, it would have given away too much.

alfredfreitas-113-134780 I watched the entire movie hoping that at the end the entire movie would make some kind of sense. Boy was I disappointed.It almost seemed as if the events in the film were random, meaningless, pointless and contrived. Unexplained "visions", with no apparent connection to the plot (one might ask "what plot"), a box of reddish rocks (presumably from Mars) causing hallucinations on the ship (and why are rocks being taken from Mars to Earth and why don't they cause hallucinations on Mars?).The editing was frantic at best and, to me, uninteresting and dull at worst. Editing does not replace good story telling (one might ask "what story telling?)I did read all the other reviews before I wrote this review and wondered if I had watched a different movie. This film was in no way a groundbreaking innovation nor a better version of "what it's like to be bored to death on a long space flight". I simply don't get how the reviewers came to their high praises of this pointless work.The actors, for the most part, did their best with the material but it appears the director totally let them down. They are the only reason I didn't give this film a lower rating.The sets also left a lot to be desired. There seemed to be an awful lot of wasted space on the space ship without any apparent reason. The lack of any, and mean any, modern technology on a space ship defies imagination. We are asked to suspend disbelief while engaging a work of art but we should get at least a little help from the artist.Overall, this film is just not worth the time I took out of my life to watch it.

smb-25133 When I heard the budget that this film was produced on, I couldn't believe the quality of the final product. The sets were very well designed and constructed, the storyline was compelling, the principal actors turned out excellent performances (Casey Dillard was especially dynamic), and the overall impression was that of a very polished film with a significantly larger budget than what they actually had. The ship model itself was impressive. It reminded me of the models used in some of the epic sci-fi pictures of the past (think Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, etc.,.) The original musical score by Ash Williams complimented the action nicely and really helped to heighten the suspense. Mr. Payne and crew did an astounding job, and I'm looking forward to seeing more from them.

FreqEteQ NZ When I saw the opening shot to Earthrise one thing sprung to mind, that the positive reviews here applauding the beautiful cinematography and directing in this movie were probably all written by people associated with the production of the film, so what else did these people say about the movie that also wasn't true? Turns out quite a lot.The entire movie is set on a spaceship with a crew of three people, but unfortunately the sets are as unbelievable as the acting is. The acting isn't the worst I've seen, but for a movie with only three characters to pull us in it just wasn't good enough to make me believe in those characters.The sets are very basic looking, bland and empty, if I didn't know it was set on a spaceship I never would have guessed it by just looking at the sets. And every room has a Jackson Pollock type painting on at least one wall because I guess it's the future and that's how cargo spaceships are decorated? No one has photos of friends or family on the wall, the touch screens and TV's that we see everywhere today seem to have totally disappeared in the future only to be replaced by Jackson Pollock paintings. The directing and camera-work is what really ruined this movie for me. The editing leaves you scratching your head in places, it gives the impression that someone with ADD was in charge of it. There are 36 camera cuts in one minute in a scene where 3 people are sitting around a dinner table having a mundane boring conversation, that's the type of fast paced editing reserved for action and fight scenes, not slow conversations over breakfast. Lots of little errors as well, the camera is following a character walking down a corridor with a door on their left, then the camera turns around to look at them from the front but the door stays on the same side of the shot, obviously because the corridor set only has one end so both shots have to be taken from the same end. Not a huge deal, but for people who notice things like that there are quite a few of them in this movie, maybe you could do a drinking game with them? The story and special effects are both adequate, though there are only 3 or 4 VERY short effects shots in the entire movie and none of them are standout, and by short I mean 2-3 seconds if that. The story is nothing new and holds few surprises, but it turned out not being the insult to my intelligence that I thought it was going to be.Not the worst movie I've ever seen, pretty close though, a real amateurish effort especially with the set design, directing, editing and cinematography. I would not recommend this movie and instead would suggest to anyone thinking of watching it to instead watch Sunshine, Pandorum or Cargo which are all way better constructed thrillers set in space.2/10 - note to filmmakers - next time you make a science fiction movie on a budget why not borrow a couple of iPads and stick them inside futuristic looking cases that you've painted silver and have the characters use them a couple of times during the movie? Give us the impression that they're in the future using technology and not just on a ship full of empty rooms and Jackson Pollock paintings.