Stowaway (I) (2021)
3/10
Really challenges your intelligence
23 April 2021
Warning: Spoilers
I get that you're supposed to suspend your disbelief when you watch Sci-Fi movies, but this movie takes it to another level, and not because of the science fiction elements.

The whole premise of a stowaway on a spaceship was interesting, but the way they brought the character in was really stupid. I mean, who the hell screwed the panel on top of him? How does that even happen? How were people who went into the spaceship not all accounted for? So many questions.

When the stowaway becomes "normal" again, he seems so callous about the whole situation. Like, he just eases in so quickly and easily that you begin to feel like it was all part of his plan all along, except that it isn't. He doesn't even pretend to be a professional, doesn't really seems like he knows much about the ship (except for the one "fun fact" he drops about the safety panels being stripped off), and doesn't really show any emotion when he isn't goofing around.

Thirdly, how come there were no maintenance/service robots on this supposed 2-year mission? How is there absolutely no contingency planning? How are there no backup repair tools/units for something so critical? It seems rather impossible to me that a mission like this would be planned with absolutely 0 plan Bs.

Don't even get me started on the oxygen cannisters... so you're telling me that this supposedly highly trained astronaut doesn't even bother to tether the cannister to something? And she doesn't realise that the gravity was going to pull her in, even though it was something she heavily referenced earlier?

The cannister being lost was one of the dumbest parts of this entire story. And of course, the same goofball who lost an entire cannister is sent back once again to retrieve the very last hope that the entire crew had for survival, despite multiple people volunteering for the same.

Also, wasn't the cannister also exposed to the same radiation as the astronaut? I don't understand why they couldn't have brought her in too? Why did she have to die? And even if she did have to die, why didn't they give her the same injection that Michael was given so that she could pass out peacefully, instead of getting shredded by the radiation?

Absolutely dumb movie, and if it wasn't for the visuals it would be a complete waste of time. It really questions your intelligence on a whole other level.
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