I.S.S. [DVD]

This slow burn suspense thriller had me on my toes from start to finish, it made brilliant use of symbolic imagery in its cinematography, and its portrayal of the characters in both sides of the conflict was nuanced in a way rarely seen. A truly compelling, heart-wrenching and deeply human story.

****************Contains some spoilers******************It's an ok movie if you can suspend disbelief and just enjoy it for what it is. It really pushes that suspension to its limit, though.What was immediately frustrating, though, were the orders given. I would have immediately replied, "No." What are they going to do? Court Marshal me from the fiery surface of Earth? Then, I would have told the others, "Hey, I was just ordered to do this. I'm not going to do it. I know you got the orders, too. It's stupid. Let's talk about how we're going to survive." I really wish they would have chosen something else as a conflict. That was just too much for me.

Excellent! Despite the fact their locked in such a small space, they managed to make the movie interesting. There were only a few dissension of disbelief moments. I found it acceptable enough to enjoy it.*spoiler - the guy not just being whisped into space was ridiculous. One of the reasons it’s 4 not 5 ⭐️

I taught the Movie was good, for me a movie has to entertain me thru out the entire movie. I say this on did.

This movie has some unrealistic and unbelievable "cold war" vibes. This is 2025, not 1980. And as much pro-war rhetoric there is out there I doubt the US and Russia would start a nuclear war. And even if so, I doubt astronauts in the ISS would follow such rediculous orders. Other than that, the actors worked well with the lame material they had to work with. If you can suspend belief the story itself was worth a watch. Good zero-G action sequences and twists.

I liked the movie, a lot of drama and a few twists and turns. In reality the various crew members from different nation-states would not turn on each other. Astronauts are a rare breed of people that are vetted to deal with high stress events and having the ability to not freak out. Most Astronauts must pass very strict and rigorous psychological tests so they are not a threat to themselves or others while stationed at the ISS. The ISS is a neutral entity. The countries may fight it each other but it would never happen on the ISS.

Imagine if a bunch of random tourists somehow found their way on board the ISS, and half of them were pretending to be Russian while having no idea how Russians act, and they were all pretending to be either astronauts or cosmonauts, while having no idea how such people would act in real life. That is about what you can expect from this movie.The ISS was the backdrop, but was a relatively unimportant part of the story. The unique character of astronauts and cosmonauts was not reflected at any time, and the interesting nature of that character is therefore unimportant to the movie... hence, no value comes from that at all. The movie could have been in the setting of random people trapped in a stranded subway car, or something like that.There are scenes when the astronauts act like they have to figure out the equipment as they're standing in front of it, acting in the manner of a bemused civilian trying to figure out which HDMI input to select on a TV, as though they hadn't thoroughly drilled the use of the equipment on the ground. When they meet the cosmonauts, it's like random people meeting at a bar, as though they knew nothing of each other, when you would assume they would all have been given dossiers on each other well in advance. It was like people meeting at summer camp.The cosmonauts are supposedly Russian, but they do not act like Russians. They act like whatever random people you might meet in Burbank. All the cultural differences are just not there at all. They are too effusive, and telegraph FAR too much emotionally. Whoever wrote the screenplay has probably never met a Russian before, and has no idea how they act.For that matter, I don't think they have the slightest clue about astronauts or cosmonauts generally. Such people are highly-trained, top-of-their-game military officers. They don't act casual about their work, and they don't freak out when something goes wrong. If an emergency happens, they are calm and professional about it, as though, again, they had drilled many different problem scenarios many times.The set is nice, but we got the feeling that it's probably a set that gets rented out to various parties for films. There is one scene in the cupola where it's perfectly obvious that they've got it mocked up on a sound stage.Also, if the rest of the problems weren't enough, they walk around most of the time as though they were under full gravity.

good movie but let's get real.... rather than chose to wake up a person so you can have company, wouldn't it have been better if he had woke up someone who knows how to repair and set up a hibernation pod? That way he would have some company and someone who's actually useful and might have saved his life!