Although the film has strong resemblances to Supernova, Earth Core, Pandorum, Through Horizon and Alien, it made me feel like I was looking at something conceptually new and never seen. Whether it was caused by the constant lighting effects and the golden glow that accompanies the entire film, I don’t know, but something so inexplicable, unspoken, this film is filled with that makes it completely new even with all its similarities.
More realistic than in other films, the scene of people entering space without a spacesuit is shown: indeed, it is possible and does not mean instant death, a person will not freeze or explode, he has 15 seconds of being conscious, so jumping from a hatch to a hatch is generally possible.
I was glad that the typical cinematic monster on the ship was made on the engine of an ordinary person. Yes, "Supernova" I wrote the same in the negative, but there the maniac on the ship was ordinary, it was just an uncle in the performance of a third-plan actor. And here we really worked with the image, and it turned out great. The villain completely lost his human form and became a sinister servant of the Sun. Bravo. And such an extraordinary voice.
Of course, the film has plot oddities, and critics have noticed them.
Why would you swerve behind a second bomb, endangering the entire mission? If one is not enough, the other will not change anything. How did you let the oxygen garden burn down? Is there a stewer? What did the plants on the first ship breathe for 7 years, if there was an overproduction of oxygen and a lack of carbon dioxide? Finally, why were manned flights at all, when the bomb could simply be launched as a probe without complicating everything with the human factor? These are perfectly correct remarks, but the answer to them is this – otherwise there would be no film. Everything can happen safely and according to plan only for the first 10 minutes, and then according to the law of art, something unplanned must happen to have the opportunity to begin the plot. The obsession is always where the normal course of events, the plan or the prohibition is violated. In this case, I just accepted the strangeness of the plot, so you can do when the work with its viewer is not hulking, but honestly showers it with beauty and impressions.