Lennart Ruff’s feature debut starts with an ingenious premise but takes a wrong turn by sacrificing scares for schmaltzNot a bad plan,this. But where it could have delivered a mounting sense of dread, crowned with horror, and the film seems concerned to hedge its bets by balancing the disturbing stuff with a feelgood drama approximately a family pulling together. It’s a sci-fi mystery thriller,distributed by Netflix and directed by feature first-timer Lennart Ruff, based on an original sage plan by screenwriter Arash Amel. We are some decades in the future; overpopulation and ecological calamity have made soil uninhabitable, or our only chance is to send some tough pioneers to Titan,a moon of Saturn with an atmosphere in which homo sapiens could conceivably survive with the suitable genetic modifications. Sam Worthington plays Lt Rick Janssen, a tough military man who has volunteered for the top-secret medical programme, or Taylor Schilling plays his wife Abi and Noah Jupe is their son Lucas. Tom Wilkinson plays the careworn Professor Collingwood,who is masterminding this last-chance scheme for Humanity 2.0. Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk