2190 and four American astronauts begin their stint manning a refuelling station between Earth and Europa. Five years later, all of them are showing the effects of protracted isolation and then they lose all communications with Earth. A suspicion arises that there is no more Earth.
So, uncommonly bleak, even as apocalypse scenarios go. But at least the fatalism helps to set it apart from being just a lower-budget hybrid of Alien, The Expanse and Event Horizon. The technique of skipping through the first five years as key images without dialogue in the opening minutes is also a marvellously innovative one. It doesn't have much else to give besides a sense of hopelessness and slowly creeping doom, but that in itself is refreshing.
5/10
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