Review of Stowaway (2021) by Saratosa75 — 22 Jan 2022

Starts out as to get ready for adventure sort of sci-fi, and then it gets very technical and then trying to be very scientific. Eventually it ends up being boring, and then the stowaway is found and there is a bunch of nothing happens.

Then the whole scientific part is thrown away with inconsistencies and illogical stuff. The ship has several compartments, maybe 5 or 6 , but the CO2 scrubber is built into only one and there are no backups.

You'd think NASA or whatever the space agency would have learned already from Apollo 13 to always have backups on board of life sustaining , which is oxygen/water/food/temperature. The other big no is, ship is built for 2 but they "squeezed in 3".

It's the other way. If there are 3, then the ship is usually built for at least 4 or 5. Always extra room for error, especially air/water/food. Especially for a space mission that lasts 2 YEARS (for crying out loud).

So, I'm watching this and I am aware of these issues already - as these problems reveal themselves not until the mid-way into the movie. The person behind a wall panel is just completely unrealistic, so while I already given up watching this a real-life scientific movie, the movie turns more illogical to a point, when I am just hoping, that this must be just some nightmare of one of the crews and soon he or she will wake up, this can't be real.

Then I'm hoping the stowaway person has either ulterior motives or he isn't what he makes him out to be, just to see some sort of a twist or turn from measuring mushroom growth of the botanic guy. But no.

And then the ending. If I wasn't already depressed /bored enough already , the doctor goes on a suicide mission during a solar storm to bring 1 tank of oxygen from the mid section of the ship, suspended on the other end of the whole spinning assembly.

Just a reminder: The oxygen is still not enough. They supposed to have 2 brought back for all of them to live, so the suicide mission only produces only one, so there is still someone else who needs to die.

At the sad and depressing ending, I didn't even want to over-think it much since the whole movie is just a long running tediousness with illogical and unrealistic ideas.