When they aren’t cribbing from better screenplays – “Particular set of skills,” “When I want your opinion I’ll give it to you,” etc. There’s also James Gallanders as an army scientist whom we first meet in a Cold War bunker in 1959.The writers are first-timers, which helps explain the writing. It doesn’t fly very well, but it’s really a wonder that it gets off the ground in the first place.Any altitude the film achieves comes from the actors, a game bunch that includes Daniel Fathers (picture Vinnie Jones from Guy Ritchie’s early movies), Alex Woods (doing Bill Paxton from Aliens) and Deragh Campbell (dialing it up to 11 from Stranger Things). And you probably won’t get much out of this science-fiction thriller, which combines elements of Cube (the six-trapped-strangers conceit), The Matrix (the inscrutable Oracle) and Alien (props and all the franchise’s leftover goo). You wouldn’t want to go to Mars on a spaceship cobbled together out of spare parts.
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