Harrison Tweed (Top Dawg) I could not get past 15 mins of this film, and those first 15 were a struggle. Then I fast-forwarded another 20 mins stopping at parts I though may be interesting, that were not. This film is just bad. Really bad. I'm not sure what the point of this was or what the budget was - seemed like someones allowance for the week, but every aspect of this film was bad. Writing, directing, cinematography, sound, editing, casting, etc... Total waste of time. A 1/10 form me.

ultratechcleaning The acting was horrible. The visuals are cheap and uninspiring No direction to anything as the story continues to go nowhere. It was so bad it would not even put me to sleep because I kept thinking you have got to be kidding me no movie can be this bad. The story line sounds amazing would love to see a real movie done with this story. Not this low budget waste of time.

alanc88 I have just committed a cardinal sin. I read the reviews which all proclaimed this film to be absolutely pants - and the I watched it right to the end! Don't do what I did, take notice of the reviewers and don't waste your time. The acting(?) is absolutely diabolical - surely there will be no more roles for anyone after this? To put it briefly; there is a planned mission to Mars - no idea why really. The lead woman has a dying daughter, but she didn't appear to give a toss about her during the first half of the film, she just upped and left but later on it was all about 'I want to see my daughter'. We don't actually see them on Mars, just a rocket taking off and a caption saying '3 years later'. Incredibly the woman is the only survivor of a missile attack on re-entry. She is taken in by Gov officials for interrogation and is deemed a danger because she has now got some mind reading powers, so they decide to do away with her. So, should they send in a couple of 'heavies' into the cell to hold her whilst the doctor injects her with some deadly poison because she is such a risk? No frigging way - just send one guy in on his own so she can kick the crap out of him and escape. When she has escaped she gets visits from the other 'dead' crew members telling her that she has survived because she has an important message to tell the rest of the world. A lot of this is cryptic waffle - unfortunately I couldn't understand a word of the actress playing the part of the 'African(?)' woman so I don't know what she had to say. So now she's escaped and the Gov know she wants to get to see her child - what should we do? - send in a posse of agents to the home / hospital to kill her because she is such a danger and they did try to kill her when she was in interrogation? Not on your Nelly! Just send (2) guys - the boss man and an agent who happens to feel sorry for her. I can't say much about the ending because there wasn't one - No message to earth, to the 7 billion people living here or most annoyingly for me is for the people who watched this crap. Rant over, I'm going for a lie down.

zacoba This was a made-for-television, very (literally) down to earth movie drama, but it was NOT SciFi. As such I would have given it a much higher rating if I was hanging out at home and flipped on the Lifetime channel, intending to watch a touching movie about a mom and her dying daughter.So here's the SciFi part: Stock footage (rocket launch), stock footage (rocket stage detaching), stock footage (etc. etc. etc.).A few scenes of astronauts supposedly in compartments on the ship.Pretty cool extraordinary abilities somehow acquired while in space, but not truly explained... at least not to a moron like me. Further exploration of this particular aspect of the movie could have redeemed it in my opinion.In the last act, a few CGI's of the ship. In the last scene, a few CGI's of the universe?!?!? Didn't realize they traveled that far!And here's the touching made-for-television melodrama: Mom can't face the inevitable finality of her daughter's cancer so she runs away to {a retreat, Mars, desert island, grandma's house, Paris} - Pick your locale: Doesn't really matter because by all accounts where she ran was completely irrelevant to the movie. You could have taken the "SciFi" aspect completely out of it and still explained away the men in black, political chaos and everything else. Upon her return, she battles against all odds to reunite with her daughter. Ultimately she is successful, returning as her daughter is dying. In the end she finds joy in the fact that she is reconciled to the reality of her daughter's death and that she has fulfilled the wish of both her daughter and, unknowingly, herself by seeing each other before her daughter dies.The end.It grinds my gears when folks tout movies as a particular genre for the sole purpose of drawing viewers. For SciFi people this is especially true in the last decade or so because SciFi SELLS, so everybody is trying to cash in. This movie could have started as the script for a rather pedestrian drama that somebody decided to "spruce up" by throwing in some SciFi elements.Don't get me wrong, I'm a guy that DOES enjoy melodramas. Under normal circumstances I cry just as much as anyone else when I watch a parent lose their child to something as tragic as cancer. But when I have my mind set on SciFi -- I want to see SciFi. For the final 30 minutes all I was doing was squirming in my seat because I knew there was nothing else to the movie, but I couldn't turn it off with so little time till the end.If you want to watch a Lifetime movie, this isn't too bad. The acting isn't great, but no worse than many other melodramas I've watched. At least for me the acting wasn't so bad that it distracted.If you want SciFi then don't waste your time.