FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

estronbase This is a pilot for a cancelled TV series. If I had realised that, I may not have watched it. As it happens, I'm glad I did. This is the sort of science fiction I prefer. No ray-gun shoot-outs, just ideas (some confusing).A big warning for those who dislike unresolved endings, this is about as bad as it gets. On the other hand, If you enjoy imagining what the writers intended for this series, have fun.If anyone wonders what I made of it, I supposed the mission itself was virtual. The strange occurrences being intended to provoke confusion and conflict among the "crew". They were making a TV program after all.

JoeB131 JMS said of the new Star Trek shows, 'IF you are in space, and you have to go to the Holodeck to have an adventure, you're missing the point." So Ronald Moore, a guy responsible for most of those insipid "Holodeck gone made" episodes on Star Trek brought us this steaming load about a reality TV space ship where people pass the time by going into virtual reality settings.Oh, yeah, and they call their ship the Phaethon. For those who went to PUblic School, he's a character who met a bad end in mythology. It's kind of like naming your ship the "GRissom or the "Icarus". Things aren't going to go well.Slow moving, uninteresting and not much to validate it, really.

bear42-875-318736 I didn't know this was a pilot. I like to be surprised when I rent a movie to some degree. Well I was surprised I waisted a perfectly good Saturday night on this. I concur with the first two critics. I kept waiting for something, anything to happen. Nothing explained, Oh :o, and like I hope they're not going to turn back, after spending Billions of dollars to get there. I dream better (whole movies) than this.As for the spoiler alert, I guess there has to be something to spoil first. I am not really a soap opera guy, I saw the nice packaging and went for the sci-fi. If I can save just one person, this has been worth it.

fin487 Effects are quite good - they even chose Projet Orion for their drive. Good on them.But I'm pretty sure it's JG Ballards 13 to Centaurus. Hope they paid him for the use.It's a long duration experiment that they aren't aware they are in. The psych is the only one who is cognizant and he's playing games of his own in his own little human ship in a bottle. Mission control knows this but are afraid that if they interrupt the experiment they'll damage the crew.It's not to say that this can't be a good series. (a TEN year mission? yikes. That's like ten years of Weakest Link). There are only so many plots. Let's see what they make of it. Or has Fox, in it's infinite wisdom, already decided to cancel it?