Usamah Harvey The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Rexanne It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

pmstone2 I have one question. You are putting together the first interstellar mission. A mission whose success literally carries the fate of the entire Earth. This mission will put 10 people together in essential isolation, for a period of 10+ years. Given all these considerations, why would you choose 10 of the most immature, unstable, social outcasts that you could possibly find? Beyond that, this movie is an excellent choice, if you want to catch up on your sleep. I kept waiting for something to actually happen, and just about the time it finally started to get interesting, the final credits appeared.

George Orwell The elements for an original approach for the series were in this pilot but the director chose to accentuate the clichés and the popular themes instead of grabbing onto the real value. Many series that have died have tried to stretch the interest of the viewer beyond the practical – in a series, wasting many episodes on mindless action outside the arc, here, in the pilot, wasting air time with over used old ideas or overused statements.The core of the idea is at the very end where, as a few commentators have brought out, the virtuality encompassing the ship itself, or whatever the deep secret that only the commander knew and wouldn't share (the "down the rabbit hole" is the allusion to it as well). This seems to have been augmented by the vision of the evil virtual player being seen in MD garb toward the end – as well as the meta observation of not setting up how kill off the main character in a pilot when clearly he's the only one with leadership capabilities in the bunch. This scenario fits well with the lack of credibility that the crew could have passed the tests for a 10 year mission.In any case, more substantial exploration of the above virtual set up would have given more of a tease and interest. Certainly more than the naive assertion that if you throw in a gay couple you'll get an interested audience, even given that they are cooks who can't even cook , an odious psychologist whose running a reality show, and a tiresome boring phony dramatic dialog (oh how dumb was the bantering there along the way) of "go/no go" when it's clear what the answer has to be.So I give it a four because I did watch it, but it is oh so sad to see a wasted 90 minutes.

bear42-875-318736 I didn't know this was a pilot. I like to be surprised when I rent a movie to some degree. Well I was surprised I waisted a perfectly good Saturday night on this. I concur with the first two critics. I kept waiting for something, anything to happen. Nothing explained, Oh :o, and like I hope they're not going to turn back, after spending Billions of dollars to get there. I dream better (whole movies) than this.As for the spoiler alert, I guess there has to be something to spoil first. I am not really a soap opera guy, I saw the nice packaging and went for the sci-fi. If I can save just one person, this has been worth it.

Mr Hottentott This TV movie or plot if it ever continues has a special touch to it that makes it really enjoyable and i have to say i really got stuck with it after watching a while.Even though it may become an enjoyable series it still has it's flaws I'm afraid, this whole reality show thing they're trying to put in does not make any sense to me, kind of lowers the quality etc, and then we have the "The whole world is going to end" thing, we've all seen it to many times and it does not necessarily make a show more exciting, could have the opposite effect in fact.If this actually continues as a series i'd for one want to see some changes for the better, at least i would hope that they could just remove this reality show thing because it makes me think of all the stupid reality shows out there which makes me want to puke a 100 times over, i think that reality shows should stick to reality shows, the same with fiction shows and not trying to put these together because the outcome would be obvious.Anyhow, overall it was pretty decent, the sci-fi feeling about it made it to be worth watching, the ending here did its part and i hope for a following series