Review of IO (2019) by Xaviervictor — 26 Jan 2019

One of the worst films I've ever seen, honestly. A major complaint is that everything from the title onwards is a misleading bait-and-switch. Io has nothing WHATSOEVER to do with IO - it is a dull-as-dishwater post-apocalypse disaster film, everyone has had to abandon Earth for a colony around Io, but Io is never seen, the colony is never seen, the entire film is set on Earth! It might as well have been called Pluto, Alpha Centauri, Bizarro World, because it really doesn't matter where everyone has gone - you will never see what the rest of the human race is doing - the entire film is focused on the boring as hell 2 main characters.

Io, and the Jovian system have fantastic potential for a sci-fi epic, which this film is unequivocably not. Besides the dull as anything plot, and the pointless, seemingly random title, the actual reason for going to Io is so pointlessly stupid it crosses the line from reasonable dramatic unscientific license into just gratuitous absurdity.

I won't even bother mentioning the reason because it just doesn't even matter, just like Io itself doesn't matter, nothing that happens in this film means anything, and there is no apparent reason for any of the decisions about the plot. Anyone involved in this film should just never work on science fiction again - the writers especially should probably just choose a new career because this is just an inexcusable pile of garbage.